Sequent Delivers Leading UNIX Server Price/Performance Over Sun and HP with New Pentium III Xeon-Based Systems; Average 50% Price/Performance Increase Across NUMA-Q Family.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1999-- Sequent (Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR, www.sequent.com) A computer company founded in 1983 by 17 ex-employees of Intel that specialized in multiprocessing systems for the client/server environment. Computer Systems (Nasdaq:SQNT SQNT Sequent Computer Systems (stock symbol) ), the leader in Intel(R) based data center solutions, today announced it would deliver significant price/performance increases across its NUMA-Q 1000 and NUMA-Q 2000 server lines, with the introduction of more powerful Intel Pentium(R) III Xeon(TM)-based systems available immediately. The aggressive move to deliver price leadership in UNIX servers A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. compared with HP and Sun brings an average price/performance gain of 50% over previous generation NUMA-Q(R) servers. "Sequent today again demonstrated its commitment to delivering products with leading price/performance versus our competitors in the UNIX server marketplace," said Jeff Pancottine, vice president of global marketing for Sequent. "Sequent offers a combination of price/performance, scalability, reliability and data center functionality that is unique to the industry. We will continue to drive the price/performance characteristic of Intel-based products into the midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually and high-end of the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). market." The price performance gains span across Sequent's product line including NUMA-Q 1000 four and eight processor servers and high-end NUMA-Q 2000 bundles with sixteen, twenty and twenty-four processors. Sequent also announced today plans to ship Intel Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). Xeon 550MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. processor-based systems later this year. Price and Performance Leadership Sequent's competitive list prices combined with the performance improvements enabled by the Pentium III Xeon processor allow Sequent to increase price performance for both the NUMA-Q 1000 and NUMA-Q 2000 by as much as 50%. -0-
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System Processor List Price VS Competition
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NUMA-Q 4 Pentium III Xeon $77,683 Beats Sun UE
1000 processors @ 3500/4500, HP K Series
500MHz and N Series
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NUMA-Q 8 Pentium III Xeon $169,778 Beats Sun UE
1000 processors @ 3500/4500, HP K Series
500MHz and N Series
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NUMA-Q 16 Pentium III $645,000 Beats Sun UE10000
2000 Xeon processors @ and HP V Series
(scales to 64 500 MHz
processors)
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Unmatched Investment Protection NUMA-Q 1000 and NUMA-Q 2000 systems with Pentium II Xeon (processor) Pentium II Xeon - The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache. http://intel. technology can be upgraded by simply replacing the processors with new Pentium III Xeon processors. Pentium II Xeon and Pentium III Xeon processors can be mixed in system environments allowing customers to lengthen length·en tr. & intr.v. length·ened, length·en·ing, length·ens To make or become longer. length  en·er n. the life of
their systems and fully leverage current technology investments as they
expand their data center. Upgrading to Pentium III Xeon provides instant
performance improvements of up to 25%.In conjunction with the Pentium III Xeon processor release, Sequent has doubled the amount of memory available on the NUMA-Q 1000 and NUMA-Q 2000 systems. Each four-processor building block can now support up to 8GB of memory. Growing the Data Center NUMA-Q 1000 and NUMA-Q 2000 systems feature the same Intel-based architecture, software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. , and storage and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output fabrics, allowing IT organizations to easily re-deploy applications running on NUMA-Q 1000 to NUMA-Q 2000 from 4 to 64 Pentium III Xeon processors. High-end architectures from other vendors often differ significantly from their midrange counterparts, making software upgrades from one to the other complex and time-consuming. About Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. Sequent Computer Systems (Nasdaq:SQNT), the leader in Intel-based solutions for the data center, is committed to the success of its end-user and system integrator See systems integrator. customers. Sequent's platform architectures and services are optimized for the scalability, availability and manageability requirements of large, growing corporate infrastructures leveraging Internet technologies, database technologies and best-of-breed partnerships. Sequent supports more than 10,000 installations worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most sophisticated e-commerce, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and business intelligence environments. For further information, phone Sequent at 503/626-5700 or 800/257-9044, or visit our Web site at www.sequent.com. Trademarks Sequent and NUMA-Q, are registered trademarks and NUMACenter is a trademark of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All brand and product names appearing in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. http://www.businesswire.com/cnn/SQNT.htm |
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