NEC ships first Itanium 2 processor-based blade server.NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Solutions (America), Inc., a provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , beat the competition by becoming the first major enterprise hardware manufacturer to begin shipping an Intel Itanium 2 processor-based blade server A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and . The Express5800/1020Ba Blade server offers 64-bit computing power, InfiniBand capabilities and unprecedented memory capacity, designed for organizations running multi-thread processor intensive applications. The Express5800/1020Ba meets the needs of Fortune 1000 enterprises, research institutions and universities; this Itanium 2 blade server is ideal for running high performance analytical applications such as genome mapping, weapons research and financial market simulation, all of which are functions that demand significant processor power. Pharmaceutical corporations can take advantage of the Itanium 2 processor and InfiniBand capabilities of the Express5800/ 1020Ba blade server to help predict molecular properties in new drugs or running 3D simulation structural models of potential new drugs, saving time and money in the research lab. Automotive manufacturers running crash test simulation analysis (language, simulation) SIMulation ANalysis - (SIMAN) A simulation language, especially for manufacturing systems, developed by C. Dennis Pegden in 1983. ["Introduction to Simulation using SIMAN", C.D. Pegden et al, McGraw-Hill 1990]. can help save fleets of real cars by crash testing car designs against a virtual concrete wall. Furthermore, investment banks The following is a list of investment banks Financial conglomerates Large financial-services conglomerates combine commercial banking and investment banking, and sometimes insurance. that predict market performance are able to build complex market simulations and simultaneously run custom financial performance applications to improve portfolio management, while increasing investor profits. Larry Sheffield, senior vice president of the Solutions Platform Group for NEC Solutions America believes by shipping the industry's first Itanium 2 processor-based blade server the competition will sit up and take notice. "NEC has vaulted ahead of the competition and set an industry president by providing customers with the only Itanium 2 processor-based blade server with InfiniBand technology available in the market," said Sheffield. "Enterprise and research organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. technology solutions that are both innovative and efficient need to look no further, this new blade server will help them cut operational costs and save resources that can have a positive impact on their bottom line and resource allocation resource allocation Managed care The constellation of activities and decisions which form the basis for prioritizing health care needs ." The NEC Express5800/1020Ba blade server interfaces with external devices via its InfiniBand PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. host adapter, offering 1GB per second throughput and delivering up to eight simultaneous communications paths over a single cable. To offer businesses the most processing power per rack space unit, each Express5800/1020Ba blade server comes standard with two Itanium 2 processors, allowing each 1.6GHz processor blade to deliver 12.8 GFLOPS See gigaFLOPS. GFLOPS - gigaflops performance, with nine blades fitting into a single 10U chassis, providing up to 18 processors per chassis, making it possible to implement a system that will deliver over 345 GFLOPS of processing power per cabinet. The blades are fast and easy to deploy, with hot-swappable capabilities, making implementation efficient and, allowing for uninterrupted operation when adding, moving or replacing blades. Additional Features --24 GB of expandable memory provide companies valuable long term protection of IT investment. --Automatic fail-over with redundant switches provides uninterrupted availability. --Two on-board 73GB U320 SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. hard drives and built-in I/O--two Gb Ethernet ports. --Built-in management interface providing centralized system management of all blades in the chassis, as well as other blades connected over IP. --Enhanced blade server design consolidates cables, power supplies, storage and network switching onto a single chassis. --Simplified set-up and maintenance with shared keyboard/mouse/video interface. The Express5800/1020Ba Blade server is designed to operate most efficiently in Linux clusters, administered as a single system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. WS is also available, providing a solid platform that is far more straightforward to deploy and administer than other clusters. The Express5800/1020Ba is base priced at $79,000 for the chassis, nine two-way blades, each with 2GB of memory, 136GB of hard drive storage and redundant power. |
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