Bull Announces DPS 9000/TA200: Power and Openness to Serve Innovation; Bull's Open Approach Ensures a Bright Future For GCOS8 Family of Servers.Business/Technology Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2002 Bull today announced a new range of enterprise servers, DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. 9000/TA200 designed to provide customers with an easy co-operation with the open world, while offering more power and openness with the reliability and robustness that characterise mainframes. The introduction of Bull DPS 9000/TA200 servers, based on the CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. technology designed by Bull, marks a new chapter in enterprise-class computing and establishes a solid foundation to deliver the performance, innovation and price, essential to business. With the announcement of Bull DPS 9000/TA200, Bull now offers an access to a wide range of performance capabilities for customers who require increased power to run their large legacy applications, while taking advantage of the latest developments in the open world and its standard applications. By clearly orienting the Bull DPS 9000/TA200 range to the open world, Bull makes a firm commitment to its large customers: to protect their GCOS (General Comprehensive OS) An operating system from Bull that, originally used in its minis and mainframes, has migrated to its Intel-based servers. GCOS was originally developed by GE in the early 1970s as GECOS (GE Comprehensive OS), then changed to General legacy applications while offering still more power and openness. "With this new generation of Bull DPS 9000 servers, and the next generation of large Intel(R)-based DPS 9000 servers which are under development under the "FAME" program and which will allow GCOS8 applications to run on the most powerful Intel(R) processors, Bull ensures a bright future for GCOS8 family of servers with an open and cost-effective environment" said Michel Guillemet guil·le·met n. Either of a pair of punctuation marks («) or (») used in some languages, such as French and Russian, to mark the beginning and end of a quotation. , Bull Chief Technical Officer. Performance, openness, investment protection: The Bull DPS 9000/TA200 systems represent a new step in the implementation of the Twin Architecture(TM) concept allowing more input/output and telecommunications power more interoperability and database access. The central system uses the latest technologies with innovative design concepts. Its processors uses advanced 0.12 micron CMOS on copper technology; three separate buses for CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , I/O and memory and 16MB of shared cache providing a large bandwidth and high throughput. A service processor including a built-in Web browser provides to Systems Managers an access to the GCOS system from anywhere in the world. By integrating tightly coupled dedicated Unix processors, the Bull DPS 9000/TA200 systems allows GCOS8 applications to access directly and rapidly to Oracle databases and storage networks as well as to co-operate with e-business applications or with other proprietary applications. The Bull DPS 9000/TA200 range of dedicated Unix processors includes: -- IOSP IOSP Input Output Server Processor , an Input/output processor that offers enhanced connectivity and performance leading to a greater safety and shorter batch windows, -- DBSP DBSP Data Base Scripting Pages DBSP Distributed Battle Simulation Program DBSP Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology DBSP Dynamic Business Start-Up Project DBSP Daytona Beach Summer Project DBSP DuBois Scholars Program , a Database Server Processor that, together with associated software, enables integration Oracle DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. native functionalities with enhanced performance. -- GNSP, a GCOS Network Server Processor designed to support TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. as standard, has quadrupled access ports while offering five times as many transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed -- eBSP, a dedicated processor for e-business applications that guarantees both high performance and secure link ensuring co-operation between the new e-business transactional applications and the GCOS 8 production applications and data. Availability and Pricing First shipment of the Bull DPS 9000/TA200 system is scheduled for September 2002 with an entry price at 250 000 Euros. |
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