Fujitsu makes the connection with Synfinity for flexible, cost-effective enterprise server solution
Fujitsu Computers has taken pole position in the race to deliver the industry`s first Intel-based eight-way servers. Today the company announced that its eight-way ready Pentium II Xeon based teamserver M800i is available in South Africa.
Fujitsu is employing Synfinity Interconnect Architecture developed by sister company Fujitsu System Technologies, as a means of offering customers a more flexible and cost-effective eight-way solution than its competitors.
Synfinity links commodity microprocessors, memory and I/O components into high-performance multi-processing servers. A key benefit of the system is that customers can choose single node implementations of up to four processors and then expand the system to eight-way by the simple addition of a further node.
The potential of the technology allows future expansion to 32-way, while subsequent releases will use Intel`s Virtual Interconnect (VI) Architecture to expand system capability still further.
Andrew Tsobanoglou, Product Manager Servers, ICL SA said: "Our new eight processor teamserver M800i systems are twice as powerful as the largest Intel-based servers previously available. The modularity of the design means that extra processing power, memory and I/O capacity can be added incrementally, avoiding the price/performance penalty that usually accompanies competitors` proprietary eight-way offerings."
With double the bandwidth (1.6GB/second) of Intel`s Pentium II Xeon processor bus and very low latency, the Synfinity interconnect is ideal for supporting enterprise applications. In addition, the Synfinity technology provides an SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) architecture for the machine, allowing the efficient use of standard commodity software.
Designed for large-scale datacentre applications, the teamserver M800i series incorporates one to four Pentium II Xeon processors operating at 400MHz (450MHz in 1999), with a choice of 512KB or 1MB level two caches. This high performance CPU combines with Intel`s 100MHz system bus and enhanced I/O subsystem to alleviate system bottlenecks and deliver superior end-to-end performance. 8GB of ECC EDO memory delivers the performance required by memory-intensive applications.
The Fujitsu teamserver M800i is an expandable, highly reliable, enterprise-class system. Each four-way node can support up to 2.88TB of disk storage and incorporates 11 PCI slots (including five 64-bit PCI slots and one shared PCI/ISA slot). The eight-way systems double the capacity of the four-way node to provide 22 PCI slots, 16GB memory and up to 5.76TB of disk storage.
Designed for business critical applications, the Fujitsu teamserver M800i offers all the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features which customers expect from an enterprise-class system. Features include hot swap redundant PSUs, hot swap disks and hot swap fans, optional RAID and Fujitsu`s servermanager software as standard.
Systems incorporating up to four processors may be supplied in a single node pedestal fujitsuxeon three or rackmount installation, while eight-way systems will be supplied rackmounted.
Support is offered for industry-standard operating systems including Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, SCO UnixWare 7 and Novell IntranetWare 4.11.
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