New Quad-Socket FUJITSU PRIMERGY Delivers Mission-Critical x86 Servers

Fujitsu today introduces new high-end quad-socket PRIMERGY servers providing a compelling combination of best-ever performance, unrivalled system density and x86 industry standard server economics.

 

The latest generation top-of-the-range PRIMERGY x86 quad-socket servers now provide the system performance, scalability and resilience to match RISC architecture – such as fault resistance – at a significantly lower price point. Available to order starting in May, the new PRIMERGY RX600 S5 and PRIMERGY BX960 S1 x86 servers are designed for business-critical applications and for large-scale system consolidation.

 

“Today marks the day when the balance shifts in favor of x86 technology,” says Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice-President x86 Server Product Unit at Fujitsu Technology Solutions. “Our new PRIMERGY models build on the groundswell towards x86 servers as the new number one choice for tasks where previously, only UNIX machines were up to the job. The new generation quad-socket PRIMERGY servers really deliver on performance and set new standards in terms of reduced energy consumption. These attributes enable enterprises to meet the competitive challenges in today’s business environment, and to ensure an early return on their investment.”

 

The new Fujitsu PRIMERGY quad-socket servers deliver an optimized combination of processing power, memory and I/O slots. With a single unit delivering output to equal or exceed the performance of entire racks of earlier generation mono- and dual-socket servers, the new quad-socket machines are consummate all-rounders able to tackle anything from large database management through to playing host to entire farms of virtualized servers.

 

Underlining its all-round performance, a new world record result has been set by a PRIMERGY RX600 S5 server on the SAP® Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) standard application benchmark*. Running Oracle® Database 11g Release 2 on Linux, the winning combination delivered a world-record on the two-tier SAP BI-D standard application benchmark result of 854,649 query navigation steps per hour.

 

 

New Nehalem-EX cores inside four-socket servers

Featuring the latest Intel® Xeon® 7500 Series processors (codenamed Nehalem-EX), the new fifth-generation Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600 S5 rack server is now joined by the first quad-socket machine for the PRIMERGY BX900 blade system: the BX960 S1 enters the price list for the Dynamic Cube as the new top-of-the-range model.

 

Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group says: “Intel welcomes Fujitsu’s next generation PRIMERGY platform built on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series. Fujitsu’s high-end enterprise market reputation and expertise, coupled with the scalable performance and advanced reliability capabilities of the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series, will help allow IT managers to run their most demanding, scale-up workloads.”

 

 

A virtual launch for the new PRIMERGY quad-socket servers takes place online at http://primergylaunchex.ts.fujitsu.com/en/ from 10:00 CET on Wednesday March 31.

 

Notes to editors

 

For technical information on the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX960 S1 and RX600 S5 servers, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/primergy.

 

For royalty-free product photography for editorial use please see:

PRIMERGY BX960 S1: http://mediaserver.ts.fujitsu.com/photoserver/index.cfm?fuseaction=list&page=1&itemsperpage=6&fid=8911&search=false&CFID=2861512&CFTOKEN=39342343&sortby=orderasc

PRIMERGY RX600 S5 http://mediaserver.ts.fujitsu.com/photoserver/index.cfm?fuseaction=list&CFID=2861512&CFTOKEN=39342343&fid=S402

 

*The two-tier SAP BI-D standard application benchmark performed on March 7, 2010 by Fujitsu in Walldorf, Germany, has been certified with the following data:

Throughput/hour (query navigation steps): 854,649

CPU utilization of central server: 96% (1 node active: 96%)

Operating system, central server: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

RDBMS: Oracle Database 11g

Technology platform release:  SAP NetWeaver® 7.0 technology platform (non-Unicode)

Configuration: 1 server (1 active node):

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600-S5, 4 processors / 32 cores / 64 threads,

Intel Xeon Processor X7560, 2.26 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and

256 KB L2 cache per core, 24 MB L3 cache per processor, 128 GB main memory

Certification number: 2010011.

 

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About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com

 

About Fujitsu Technology Solutions

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