Big Blue said it has introduced the Bladecenter HS21 XM server family, which use up to two Intel low power Xeon quad core processors.

The processors support DDR2 with a maximum system memory size of 32GB, use a 1066MHz system bus, and include dual Broadcom 6708S Gigabit Ethernet connections with failover support.

They will also take Ethernet or Fibre Channel expansion cards, include a systems management processor, and support one non hotswap SAS SFF hard drive up to 156GB capacity or a 15.8GB solid sata S-ATA drive.

They also come with the option of a 4GB or 8GB modular flash drive. The servers will become available in early July, and IBM trumpets them as high throughput two way SMP capable blade servers.

The processors are 40W 2.13GHz chips with 12MB of cache. X