Unisys Demonstrates Commitment to Intel Pentium Pro Processor With Servers Spanning Office to Enterprise.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--At Intel Corp.'s Pentium Pro processor server event here Tuesday, Unisys Corp. featured a range of platforms that illustrates the company's strategic commitment to the Intel Pentium Pro processor architecture. The servers included new members of the PW2 Advantage family of PCs, a new 10 processor 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). or Windows NT server capable of accepting multiple versions of the Pentium Pro, the advanced Open Parallel Unisys Server (OPUS) developed in alliance with Intel, and a forthcoming enterprise server combining the Pentium Pro processor with a custom processor. In addition, Unisys is also showing members of the U6000/500 family of UNIX servers which have been capable of accepting both multiple generations of Pentium and Pentium Pro technology, in a mix and match environment, since their introduction in June 1994. The new servers -- shown for the first time today -- will be announced in the first half of 1996. "Our commitment to the Intel Pentium Pro processor extends the decade long relationship between Unisys and Intel," said Ronald K. Bell, Unisys chief technology officer. "Unisys worked with Intel during the design of the Pentium Pro processor to help define requirements for multiprocessor servers for sophisticated commercial applications. "We are now delivering the results of that collaboration in the high-performance servers we are highlighting today, and will continue to make the Pentium Pro processor the keystone for future generations of servers." "Pentium Pro based servers continue a Unisys tradition of delivering high-performance servers based on new generations of Intel processor technology," said Dave House senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Server Group. New PC servers featuring Pentium Pro processor SFR -- Fault-resilient Rackmount Server -- Built for growth, the system accommodates up to four processor drawers for a total of 16 Pentium Pro processors. Each processor drawer offers PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). local bus, six hot-swappable RAID disk drives, three front- accessible drive bays and up to 1GB of ECC memory. Other options include a HDD/RAID drawer for high-performance disk storage, DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. tape backup drawer, uninterruptible power supply See UPS. (hardware) Uninterruptible Power Supply - (UPS) A battery powered power supply unit that is guaranteed to provide power to a computer in the event of interruptions in the incoming mains electrical power. , monitor shelf and system switch unit to control up to four LANs from a single console. SFE See Sydney Futures Exchange. -- Fault-resilient Super Server -- designed to be a true LAN server, the Model SFE is a full tower system featuring up to four Pentium Pro processors, front-accessible RAID storage system, dual power supplies, PCI local bus, 16 card slots and up to 1GB of ECC memory. All components are easily accessible. A unique cooling system for PC cards, peripherals, processors and memory combats overheating Overheating An economy that is growing very quickly, with the risk of high inflation. , the leading cause of server failure, in the demanding application environments that require fault resilience. SME -- Quad Processor Server -- The Model SME server provides the most asked for features in server technology. Housed in a full tower form factor, the SME provides outstanding growth, accommodating up to four Pentium Pro processors and providing 13 front accessible drive bays, PCI local bus, 16 card slots and up to 1GB of ECC memory. The SME also features dual power supplies, a cooling system and an optional RAID subsystem. SVD (Simultaneous Voice and Data) The concurrent transmission of voice and data by modem over a single analog telephone line. The first SVD technologies on the market were Multi-Tech's MSP, Radish's VoiceView, AT&T's VoiceSpan and the all-digital DSVD, endorsed by -- Entry-level Dual Processor Server -- Designed to Intel's SMP 1.1 specification for symmetric multiprocessor servers, the SVD accommodates up to two Pentium Pro processors. The server's standard 32MB ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. standard memory is expandable to 512MB. The SVD features a compact mid-tower chassis with plenty of room for expansion with three external drive bays, six internal bays and seven card slots. The Model SVD server also offers a fast/wide SCSI controller, optional RAID subsystem and optional external storage system. CMT CMT Certified Medical Transcriptionist. CMT abbr. Certified Medical Transcriptionist CMT California mastitis test. -- Mini-tower Client System -- Housed in a mini-tower, 7-bay chassis, the CMT server is a full featured, single Pentium Pro processor based system with a PCI local bus. The CMT has a 192MB EDO memory capacity, seven card slots and a 64-bit PCI graphics accelerator. High-performance servers ready for Pentium Pro processor U 6000 Family -- The new 10-processor SMP server with a Symmetrical Coherent Memory (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) bus shown here today is the top end of family of Intel-based mid-range symmetric multiprocessor servers. To match its ten-processor computing power, this Pentium Pro ready server will support up to 8GB of system memory, seven PCI and five EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. expansion slots, six internal hot removable hard disk (storage) removable hard disk - A type of magnetic disk, or possibly magneto-optical disk which is not permanently attached to the disk drive (not a fixed disk) but which can be taken out and replaced, allowing many disks to be used in the same drive. drives and a selection of both internal and external RAID disk options providing a total of up to 4.6 terabytes of on-line storage. In addition to fault-resilient storage, the 10-processor SMP server also offers features such as N+1 power and cooling systems for high availability. These combined features make this server a superior long-term investment for mission-critical applications, such as on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ). Also being shown are members of the U6000/500 family based on the same SCM bus technology. These servers were introduced into the market during mid 1994. The major benefit of the bus design is the capability to mix and match multiple generations of both Pentium and Pentium Pro technology within the same base cabinet, thus offering customers exceptional investment protection . Open Parallel Unisys Server (OPUS) -- Developed in cooperation with Intel, Unisys OPUS platform is Pentium Pro processor ready, with availability of the Pentium Pro processor based version scheduled for the second quarter of 1996. The system, targeted for data warehousing, decision support and other sophisticated, database-intensive applications, is currently offered with 8 to 128 Pentium processors that can be intermixed with the Pentium Pro processors. The OPUS platform has been shipping since June 1995 with over 20 systems shipped to users in diverse lines of business. The OPUS system employs an advanced UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services that combines standard UNIX System V Unix System V - System V Release 4 (SVR4 -- the UNIX standard for commercial computing -- with the Chorus microkernel for distributed processing and offers the industry's leading Single System Image for system management, application development and operational transparency to the end user. The OPUS platform offers the industry's leading 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. systems from Oracle, Informix and Red Brick, as well as the Parallel MAPPER database from Unisys. Forthcoming enterprise server The newest Unisys mainframe-class enterprise server will be announced in the second quarter of 1996. It will offer a heterogeneous, open multiprocessing environment that allows coexistence and cooperation among UNIX, Windows NT and the Unisys A Series and 2200 Series operating environments. The new server will combine the Intel Pentium Pro processor for UNIX and Windows NT applications with the advanced Unisys CMOS processor for the traditional enterprise server environments. -0- Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corp. All other brands and products reference herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Unisys Corp. Martin Krempasky, 215/986-4788 Internet: krempask@po7.bb.unisys.com |
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