Platform Guide: Servers
Bensley
Intel is pitching Bensley alongside the phrase "Dual core for everyone". Bensley is an evolution from Lindenhurst, made up entirely of processors that sport 2 cores. There are two versions: Bensley and Bensley-VS. The VS version is built around the Blackford-VS chipset, which lacks the gigabit Ethernet controller and SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller of the full-blood Blackford. Both versions of Blackford offer features like dual independent Front Side Buses (one for each CPU socket) and support for Fully-Buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs).
Requires: Xeon Dempsey or Woodcrest processor, Intel 5000V-series (Blackford) chipset.
Caneland
Up to 4 Xeon Tigerton processors, serviced by 4 Front Side Buses for extra bandwidth. Helpfully, the appropriate Xeons have model numbers that put them in the "7300 series", and so does the chipset.
Requires: Xeon Tigerton processor, Intel 7300 (Clarksboro) chipset.
Lindenhurst
Intel's all-things-to-all-people solution, Lindenhurst comes in several flavors. Originally offering support for the Xeon Irwindale and (dual core) Paxville processors, it is being expanded into what Intel has called Lindenhurst modified, utilizing a low-power Xeon Sossaman (also dual core). Strictly speaking, Lindenhurst is the name of the chipset, but in recent months Intel has taken to refering to both the chipset and the processors sold alongside it as a "platform".
Requires: Xeon Irwindale, Xeon Paxville, or Xeon Sossaman processor; Intel E7xxx chipset.
Redland
Intel had planned to release this platform after Bensley, but recently shelved it when it killed the Xeon Whitefield. Whitefield was cancelled in favor of Tigerton, and in turn Redland was cancelled in favor of Caneland.
Requires: Xeon Whitefield processor.