New Quad-Core Intel Xeon MP processors introduced today in PRIMERGY RX servers from Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, provide near-double performance over previous models, coupled with new savings in energy-efficiency.
Underlining Fujitsu Siemens Computers' commitment to the Dynamic Data Centre, new PRIMERGY RX600 S4 rack-mount servers are ideally suited towards advanced virtualisation, enabling further consolidation within the data centre.
The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 is the first server model from Fujitsu Siemens Computers to feature Intel's first 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon MP 7200/7300 processor series (codenamed Tigerton), providing top-level performance combined with particularly low power consumption. The new PRIMERGY RX600 S4 will go on sale in October.
In addition to performance gains, the switch to Intel Xeon MP quad-core processors further reduces the PRIMERGY RX600's already highly-efficient heat output per processor, therefore reducing energy consumption. With overheating a major cause of IT component failure, the new lower-heat-output servers also ease overall data centre cooling needs.
Thanks to new quad-core processors and 128GB of maximum on-board memory - double the previous maximum amount - the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 delivers a perfect consolidation platform ideal for virtual machine tasks, also providing an ideal platform for high-end compute-intensive data centre functions, such as database server and ERP application (enterprise resource planning).
The fourth-generation PRIMERGY RX600, the S4, provides almost double the processing power but retains the same form factor, a compact 4U rack chassis, thanks to quad-core processors of up to 2.93GHz, and a dual 4MB Level 3 cache.
In line with its purpose as a thoroughbred for the data centre, all components within the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 are fully redundant and hot-swappable. This means that server need not be powered down during maintenance, providing the minimised unplanned downtime required to run mission-critical applications such as databases and ERP systems.
The richly-specified PRIMERGY RX600 S4 delivers the highest levels of throughput and data availability to both LAN and SAN thanks to an 8-port SAS controller with RAID 5 (RAID on Motherboard) functionality, a 1067MHz frontside bus (FSB) and 4x onboard Gigabit Ethernet controllers, in addition to an optional battery back-up unit (BBU) for further high availability operation.
The space-saving 7U rack mount chassis accommodates up to eight hot-plug 2.5-inch hard drives, and ship with Fujitsu Siemens Computers' iRMC (integrated Remote Management Controller) S2 Server Management Controller delivering comprehensive server management.
Benchmark proven
A new SPECjbb2005 result on the new Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY RX600 S4 server using the BEA JRockit JVM demonstrates the impressive performance that can be achieved combining latest x86-based hardware and leading software in the business-oriented SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 rack server using 4 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors X7350 (2.93GHz, 8MB L3 cache, 1067MHz system bus, codename Tigerton), 32GB of memory, one 73GB SAS disk drive, and running eight instances of the BEA JRockit 6.0 P27.4.0 (64-bit) Java Virtual Machine on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) achieved a result of 437412 business operations per second (SPECjbb2005 bops) and 42082 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
This PRIMERGY RX600 S4 score is the highest SPECjbb2005 result on a four-way server to date, surpassing the currently leading four-way result on IBM System p5 570 (1).
The new SPECjbb2005 result mentioned above has been submitted to SPEC. It will be publicly visible at http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/jbb2005.html after successful completion of the review.
A detailed description of the SPECjbb2005 benchmark can be found at http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/ and in the following overview document http://extranet.fujitsu-siemens.com/vil/pc/vil/primergy/performance/benchmark_overview_specjbb2005.pdf
(1) IBM System p 570: 346742 SPECjbb2005 bops and 86686 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, using four IBM POWER6 Dual-Core processors (4.7GHz, 4 MB L2 cache), 32GB memory, running four instances of the IBM J2RE 1.5.0 (32-bit) IBM J9 2.4 AIX JVM. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 5 September 2007. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing systems using x86-based processors with four chips.
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