Feature Story

March 1, 2004

Greater performance and flexibility in mid-range SPARC64™ V systems

Offering 30% more power, Fujitsu’s latest PRIMEPOWER250 and 450 servers provide enhanced capability as mid-range Solaris™ Operating Environment(OE) application platforms.

The new 1.32GHz processors now come with 2MB of on chip L2 cache as standard. This doubles the cache capacity of the previous 1.1GHz systems. The overall result is a 30% * 1 improvement in both integer and floating-point arithmetic capability.

Flexibility is further improved with the capability to install up to 16GB of main memory in PRIMEPOWER250 and 32GB in PRIMEPOWER450.

These new more powerful systems can make even more of their high-end system pedigree with ensures the very best in reliability, availability and serviceability.

Ideal as application engines, their processor reliability, simple in-built systems management (eXtended System Control Facility% * 2), redundancy and hot-swap capabilities, make them perfect in the 24/7 data center, or as robust application platforms for SME or branch office level operation.

Used in conjunction with Fujitsu PRIMECLUSTER these platforms can provide the very best in non-stop operation for mid range applications and mission critical operation in medium sized businesses.

Notes:
* 1 Comparisons: PRIMEPOWER250/4501.32GHz vs. PRIMEPOWER250/450 1.1GHz

* 2 System supervision is performed using a sophisticated independent supervisory processor(XSCF). This ensures that hardware and operating environment abnormailties can be promptly identified, managed, logged and inspected. Monitoring can continue even if the server is in a ‘dead’ state. This allows remote diagnosis and fast recovery operations even under adverse situations.