Malboro, Mass.-based Egenera's Processing Blade (pBlade) are populated with four Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors 7350 at a speed of 2.93GHz and stuffs 16, 32, 64 or 96GB of memory into a standard 1U form factor.

Processing Blade modules within the Egenera BladeFrame System are diskless and stateless, enabling automated allocation, repurposing and failover since any of these personality-neutral servers can assume the identity of any other server.

These stateless blades are combined with Egenera's proprietary Processor Area Network (PAN) Manager virtualization software. The software creates pools of compute, storage and network resources in a fully virtualized computing infrastructure that can be easily managed.

The Intel Xeon processor pBlades are also certified to support Microsoft Windows, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris 10 operating systems.

The Egenera pBlade based on the Intel Model x7350 processors were commercially available in Q4 of 2007.