Bull Announces NovaScale 9000: Its New Generation of GCOS 8 Servers Based on Intel's Itanium 2 Processors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2003 Bull today announced the NovaScale(TM) 9000 Series, its new generation of 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 8 enterprise servers. Based on Bull's FAME (Flexible Architecture for Multiple Environments) architecture, these new servers reflect the Group's ambition to deliver powerful IT platforms that utilize standard technologies. The new NovaScale(TM) 9000 Series is based on Intel's(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, thereby fulfilling customers' highest expectations in terms of openness, flexibility and continuity. Providing GCOS customers with a long-term evolution path is at the heart of Bull's strategy. This includes providing them with the best of what new technologies and standards can offer, while also protecting their current applications and investments. The NovaScale(TM) 9000 series will enable the GCOS 8 environment to run on Intel's(R) most powerful Itanium(R) processor platforms and on Bull's FAME architecture. GCOS 8 applications will run without change or recompilation Re`com`pi`la´tion n. 1. A new compilation. on the NovaScale(TM) 9000 Series. Bull's NovaScale(TM) 9000 Series will combine GCOS 8 and open environments within a single platform--thereby providing customers with total operational continuity for their production applications and easy integration of new applications from the standard environment. Bull NovaScale 9000 series specifics: As the utmost solution for GCOS 8 customers, the NovaScale(TM) 9000 series brings GCOS' robustness, Intel's performance and simple openness to Linux and Windows environments (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. . -- Openness: GCOS 8 will easily cohabitate with Windows and Linux to interoperate See interoperable. with e-business applications. Memory-to-memory fast exchange mechanisms have made it easy for the user to integrate production applications with standard environment functionalities. -- Interoperability with the new e-business applications: The launch of the Bull NovaScale(TM) series has taken on a new dimension, facilitating and speeding up the insertion of GCOS 8 servers into new infrastructures: J2EE applications A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. servers, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , internet, intranet and web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . -- Partitioning and multi-environment: Thanks to specific partitioning functionalities, several applications running under operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. such as GCOS 8, Linux or Windows can be safely consolidated on a single server. -- Business Continuity for GCOS 8 applications: Bull NovaScale(TM) 9000 servers have inherited the robustness, security and availability of GCOS 8. They also integrate self-healing and disaster recovery functions in case of GCOS 8 problems. -- Performance Performance and evolution capabilities are unlimited in the long term since the Bull NovaScale(TM) 9000 Series will immediately benefit from every performance improvement that Intel brings to its future generations of processors. Characteristics of the first available models: Bull NovaScale 9080 The first eight Bull NovaScale(TM) 9080 models provide power up to 840 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 (TPS (1) (Transactions Per Second) The number of transactions processed within one second. TPS is a better rating for the performance of hardware and software than the common MHz and GHz rating of the computer. ) They offer an evolutionary path for the Bull 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. 9000/500 (RPM2) systems and for the Bull DPS9000/700 (Jupiter 1) systems, as well as providing increased power, capacity and new functions of the SR5.2 version of GCOS 8, which is available on the NovaScale(TM) 9080 and the large Bull DPS 9000 (Olympus 2) systems. Pricing and availability: The entry Bull NovaScale(TM) 9080 systems will be available in November 2003. About Bull: Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. It brings to customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications. Bull has a strong presence in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to meet the IT needs of its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide. For more information: http://www.bull.com |
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