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Fujitsu Limited
2001-0187E
Fujitsu Extends PRIMEPOWER's Performance Leadership
- New 675MHz/600MHz SPARC64(TM) GP processors give further 20% processor
speed boost to industry's fastest servers in the UNIX market -
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Tokyo, October 9, 2001--- Building on a recent dramatic TPC performance
benchmark in which its PRIMEPOWER Solaris-based servers doubled the
non-clustered performance of the closest competitor(1), Fujitsu Limited
announced today that it is increasing the clock speed of its up to
128-way enterprise class PRIMEPOWER servers by a further 20 percent.
To continue its record of providing the most powerful and reliable
systems for business-critical computing and Internet deployment,
Fujitsu's high-end PRIMEPOWER servers are being upgraded from 563 MHz
to 675 MHz SPARC64(TM) processors, and mid-range PRIMEPOWER servers
will likewise be upgraded from 500 MHz to 600MHz. In addition, Fujitsu
is adding a wide range of new capabilities and enhancements that extend
its technology leadership as the best commercial server choice for the
enterprise and the emerging broadband Internet.
"In the emerging broadband Internet market with its 24 x 7 demands,
customers require even higher system availability than that achieved
on legacy mainframes," said Mr. Takashi Aoki, Group President of
Fujitsu's Computer Systems Group. "Fujitsu's long proven expertise in
mainframe high availability is now being applied to the ever higher
demands of the mission critical UNIX marketplace. We will continue to
concentrate on developing technology that exceeds our customers'
expectations in system high reliability and availability."
Brian Richardson of Meta Group stated: "Fujitsu is a major international
vendor, and large, sophisticated...shops should consider high-end Fujitsu
systems, which offer better price/performance and high availability."
In addition to processor performance increases, Fujitsu also announced
that its enterprise class PRIMEPOWER systems would use new 2GB
memory modules to double the maximum addressable memory, allowing
up to 512GB on the largest servers. This increased memory capability
enables very large databases to run more efficiently, which in turn
improves performance of large business applications.
- PRIMEPOWER Enhancements
In addition to performance improvements, Fujitsu will provide the
following new capabilities and enhancements to the PRIMEPOWER series:
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-- Active Resource Management Technology(TM) - The result of an
engineering collaboration between Aurema Pty Limited and Fujitsu Ltd,
Aurema's revolutionary resource management technology, ARMTech(TM)
is now available for PRIMEPOWER series. The ARMTech product has been
designed and developed by Aurema to provide detailed monitoring and
fine-grained control of critical system resources such as the CPU and
memory. The function capabilities of ARMTech allow resources to be
precisely allocated to specific applications or users to achieve
optimal server utilization or to enforce pre-determined service level
agreements. The use of ARMTech on Solaris will provide increased
PRIMEPOWER server efficiency, superior quality of service, and reduced
total cost of ownership (TCO). Those customers implementing server
consolidation will find ARMTech invaluable in managing resource
contention among consolidated applications. Application Service
Providers (ASPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will use
ARMTech not only to improve efficiency and to enforce resource usage
limits but also to accurately bill customer by system resource usage.
ARMTech is immediately available on all PRIMEPOWER series.
-- Web-based system administration provides the flexibility to monitor
PRIMEPOWER servers remotely via the Web. A detailed view of all hardware
components allows the system administrator to stay on top of the use and
state of the systems in support of data integrity, application assurance,
and optimal performance levels. Web-based administration contributes to
reduce total cost of ownership.
-- Capacity on Demand enables customers to increase the performance of
their systems immediately, by activating pre-configured unused processors
on basis of demand. To be offered in Japan market with PRIMEPOWER2000
series systems.
PRIMEPOWER servers are now being used to run some of the world's most
demanding systems, Daimler-Chrysler, Southwest Airlines, EMC, and Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, to name a few. Fujitsu has opened
PRIMEPOWER competency centers in the United States, Europe and Japan to
provide customers a first-hand view of the most realistic power
availability comparisons as well as test-bed facilities for further
system performance improvements.
About PRIMEPOWER
PRIMEPOWER servers are developed by Fujitsu Limited in Japan, and sold
by Fujitsu group companies in Asia/Pacific, Fujitsu Technology Solutions
in North America and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers in EMEA. PRIMEPOWER is now
the holder of a number of world records. The range of benchmarks held by
PRIMEPOWER can be found at: http://primepower.fujitsu.com/en/benchmark.html PRIMEPOWER high-end models running the Solaris operating environment can scale to 128 processors (PRIMEPOWER2000) and support up to 99.999% system availability.
| (1) | On August 28, 2001, Fujitsu Limited achieved a new world record in TPC-C benchmark with the PRIMEPOWER2000 SPARC-powered, Solaris-based server
using Fujitsu's SymfoWARE Server Enterprise Edition database management
system (455,818.20tpmC, at $28.58/tpmC, availability date Feb.28, 2002).
Please note that the February 28, 2002 availability date reflects the
general release status of the particular database software version used for
the benchmark test, and not availability of the hardware, operating system
or applications. PRIMEPOWER2000 128-way servers and related operating and
application software are available now. 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/.
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About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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