Tokyo, February 1, 2001---Fujitsu Limited announced today three new PRIMERGY brand Intel® architecture servers for the global marketplace. Available from next month, the new servers specifically focus on Internet usage and high availability computing. In particular, they have been optimized for enterprise computing, data center deployment and as a platform for the Fujitsu Group's common delivery of solutions as a Microsoft® program partner for Windows® 2000 Datacenter Server.
The smallest of these new servers is the PRIMERGY H200, an entry level, multi-purpose Internet application server for the enterprise. Built to match the requirements of departmental, small business and data center-based systems it comes in a variety of configurations for both office and rack deployment. The other two servers announced at this time are for the data center. PRIMERGY N400 and N800 are compact, rack-mount compute nodes with the high availability features, power and scalability needed for today's data center server farms. PRIMERGY N400 is focused on larger mid-tier dedicated computing tasks and N800 has been specially validated as Fujitsu's global Windows 2000 Datacenter Server launch vehicle. They also support terabytes of rack-mounted data storage using matching racked data storage nodes.
Product Highlights
Fujitsu's new PRIMERGY H200, based on 2-way Intel® Pentium® III XeonTM processors, couples high reliability with excellent performance and scalability. Aimed at the business critical computing needs of small-to-medium enterprises and corporate workgroups, it has advanced availability features and comprehensive manageability. Scalable performance and excellent expansion capability help realize IT investment protection and also enable PRIMERGY H200 to address a wide range of computing tasks and to grow as customers' business and application needs evolve. Ideally suited as an entry-level server for growing, power and resource hungry e-commerce applications, the H200 can be used in either a freestanding tower or rack-mounted form. Technical features of note include internal capacity of up to 288GB Ultra160 SCSI connected disk, 1GHz processors and up to 4GB of PC133 SDRAM. High availability comes from a broad range of functions including storage protection and hot-plug components.
PRIMERGY N400 is a 4-way data center compute node. Very compact, at just 4U high, it can be mass-racked to meet the requirement for high concentrations of computing power and flexibility in a minimum footprint. Intended for use as a dedicated application server, it matches the current trend in software delivery whereby complex enterprise applications are increasingly distributed as sub tasks to dedicated servers. This makes N400 an ideal platform for multi-tier ERP solutions, where it matches separation of different functions into application, database and file/print serving. Data warehouse operations will also benefit from the N400 compute node approach, particularly in situations where a central process distributes subtasks to individual nodes that in turn, and in parallel, perform complex analysis of large data resources.
Finally the N400 compute node can also be used as a stand-alone system, particularly where high computing power is needed. Its internal hard disk capacity is often sufficient for single applications, and its minimal space requirements make it perfectly suited for 19-inch rack-based enterprise computing environments.
PRIMERGY N800 is an 8-way data center compute node. Originally developed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, it is a benchmark world record holder with excellent performance characteristics (*). Now it has been reworked and matched to new storage systems for global deployment as a fully tested, configured and validated Windows 2000 Datacenter Server platform. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server clusters require very rigorous testing of the delivered configurations. This means that servers and storage system must match. Given the range of storage solutions available within the Fujitsu group, regional suppliers of PRIMERGY servers will make their own choice of which local storage devices to validate based on their customers' needs. But for commonality across all markets, Fujitsu will validate a standard configuration using EMC's CLARiion storage systems.
Technical Specifications
| PRIMERGY | H200 | N400 | N800 |
| Processors: | Pentium III Xeon |
Pentium III Xeon | Pentium III Xeon |
| Number: | 1 Std. Max 2 | 1 Std. Max 4 | 2 Std. Max 8 |
| Frequency: | 1GHz and 933Mhz | 700MHz | 700MHz |
| L2 Cache: | 256MHz | 1MB or 2MB | 1MB or 2MB |
| Memory: | 256MB Std. Max 4GB | 512MB Std. Max. 16GB | 1GB Std. Max 32GB |
| PCI slots: | 7(6 hot plug ready) | 8(6 hot plug ready) | 10(hot plug ready) |
| Internal Disk: | 8(hot-plug) | 4(hot plug) | 4(hot-plug) |
| Onboard: | 2 x Ultra1601x Lan | 2 x Ultra1601x Lan | 2 x Ultra1601x Lan |
| Form factor: | Pedestal & Rack(7U) | Rack only(4U) | Rack only(7U) |
* for previous N800 performance data see:
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy/en/products/benchdata/performancen800_e.pdf
* All company/product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purpose only.
About Fujitsu
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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