Dell

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Dell Inc. is a United States-based computer hardware company. It develops, manufactures, supports and markets a wide range of personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, peripherals and supercomputers. Dell sells computers with Intel and AMD processors.

Michael Dell, while still a student at the University of Texas at Austin, founded the company as "PC's Limited" in 1984 to sell IBM-compatible computers built from stock components.

According to the Forbes 500 2005 list, Dell ranks as the 28th-largest company in the United States by revenue. It employs approximately 88,100 people worldwide as of 2007.

[edit] Computer Systems

• Dell servers used in clusters on the June 2007 Top 500 list:
  • PowerEdge Xeon EM64T:
    • PowerEdge 1950
    • PowerEdge 1955
    • PowerEdge 1850
    • PowerEdge 1855
    • PowerEdge SC1425
  • PowerEdge Opteron:
    • PowerEdge SC1435
  • PowerEdge Xeon:
    • PowerEdge 1750

• Other Dell servers used in previous Top 500 lists:
  • PowerEdge Pentium 4:
    • PowerEdge 750
    • PowerEdge 650

• Dell workstations used in previous Top 500 lists:
  • Precision 470

[edit] External Resources

• Dell Inc.
• Dell High Performance Computing Clusters