Tokyo, July 17, 2000 - Fujitsu Limited today announced the release of the highest performing 8-way PRIMERGY server ever - the PRIMERGY HS910 - a powerful compute node based on eight 700MHz Intel® Pentium®III Xeon™ processors and aimed at the growing use of Intel architecture (IA) PC servers for database, data center and server consolidation tasks. Reflecting the global consolidation of its server lines, the new PRIMERGY HS910 being marketed in Asia/Pacific and the Americas now has the same base configuration as Fujitsu Siemens Computers' PRIMERGY N800 product being offered in Europe.
"This is good news for Fujitsu and its global customers as Fujitsu Siemens Computers has just achieved a new TPC-C world record for IA servers with their edition of this product," said Mr. Tatsushi Miyazawa, senior vice president and group president Computer Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited. "This is another example of our continuing commitment to the needs of our large global customers as we work to fully unify our product line codes across all our operations and partnerships."
The easy systems and asset management of fewer, large servers has in recent times resulted in the steady growth in acceptance of 8-way PC servers. Data center managers are also seeking to replace a multitude of distributed small file/print, application and mail servers. They need to move from the days of client server to systems that now match Internet architecture, with its more centralized and tiered server approach.
Such consolidation makes high-availability and greater reliability more important than ever. To meet this challenge, the PRIMERGY HS910 follows Fujitsu's "Perpetual Computing" strategy: operational redundancy of all major components, including processors, memory, power supplies, hard disks, Pro-active fans, and LAN cards, is provided as standard. In addition Fujitsu's built-in Preventative Maintenance Alerting and Fast Reliable Diagnosis firmware ensures the best in early warning systems, managed preventative maintenance and fast problem diagnosis. These top-of-the-line features minimize downtime and in most cases prevent it all together.
PRIMERGY HS910 servers also come with a full 3-year parts and on-site labor warranty. Through the simple installation of the LDSM or Servervisor management software supplied as standard, this can be extended to include Pre-failure warranty on items such as disks, memory etc. whose status can be monitored by the management system.
Fujitsu's PRIMERGY HS910 will start shipping in early September.
- HS910 hardware specifications:
| Rackmount: | (7U) |
| Processors: | 2 to 8, 700MHz Pentium®III Xeon™ processors |
| Cache: | 1MB or 2MB |
| Memory: | 1GB standard, Max. 32GB |
| Internal Disk: | 2 Bays Max 72GB. |
| External Disk: | up to 3.5TB |
Details of Fujitsu Siemens Computers' PRIMERGY N800 benchmark result:
- TPC-C REV 3.5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
| System: | Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY N800 C/S
with 8 PRIMERGY 170 storage devices |
| Report Date: | July 5, 2000 |
| Total System cost: | E1,157,002 (E=Euro) |
| TPC-C Throughput: | 56,388.50 |
| Price/Performance: | E20.52/tpmC (E-Euro) |
| Availability Date: | 1st Oct, 2000 |
| Processors: | 8 Intel Pentium® III Xeon 700 MHz with 2MB cache |
| Memory: | 32GB |
| Disk controllers: | 7 x SCSI controllers |
| Total Disk: | 3.593TB |
| Database manager: | Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition |
| Operating-System: | Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server |
| Other Software: | Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0 and COM+ |
| Number of Users: | 45,360 |
- Details on TPC-C and tmpC:
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TPC-C is a standardized benchmark test for evaluating the throughput performance of complete system configurations. The TPC-C benchmark comes under the jurisdiction of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The results may be published only after having been audited by a TPC-appointed auditor. The TPC-C benchmark models a database application for a warehouse. While the system processes a number of simulated payment, order status, delivery and stock-level transactions, the benchmark measures the number of "new order" transactions that can still be accepted. The tpm-C metric indicates the number of "new order" transactions which can be fully processed per minute with a response time of less than five seconds. Further information on the TPC institution, the TPC-C benchmark and published benchmark results can be downloaded from the TPC website at http://www.tpc.org/.
- About Fujitsu Limited
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Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-based information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide -- including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated revenues of 5.26 trillion yen ($49.6 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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Products Information: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/en/servers/primergy/
- Press Contacts:
- Toshiaki Koike, Bob Pomeroy, Scott Ikeda
Fujitsu Limited, Public Relations
Tel: +81-3-3215-5236 (Tokyo)
Fax: +81-3-3216-9365
e-mail: pr@hq.fujitsu.co.jp
- Customer Contacts
- Asia/Pacific Customer Contact:
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Paul Hendry
Fujitsu Limited,
Business Development & Marketing Division
Tel: +81-44-754-3210 (Kawasaki)
Fax: +81-44-754-3321
e-mail: pcserver@sag.fujitsu.co.jp
URL: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/en/servers/
- North American Contacts:
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Ichiro Ohama
Amdahl Corporation
Tel:(408)-746-8576 (Sunnyvale, California)
e-mail: Ichiro_Ohama@amdahl.com
URL: http://www.amdahl.com/
- For Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY servers in Europe in contact:
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Herbert Schweikl
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Corporate Product Communication & PR
Tel. +49-89-636-41932 (Munich/Germany)
Fax +49-89-636-49809
e-mail: herbert.schweikl@mch6.siemens.de
URL: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/
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