Bull NovaScale 5000 Series

4-way to 16-way Itanium®2-based servers ideal for ERP/SCM applications, support of large data bases and HPC systems and clusters.

NovaScale 5000 Series includes rack-optimized SMP servers delivering outstanding price/performance ratio and scalability with headroom for growth. Delivered in a 36U cabinet (1.74m high) and easily clustered.

NovaScale 5000 series is upgradable towards the NovaScale 6000 series.

• Processor: 4/16 Intel® Itanium® 2
• Clock rates: up to 1.6GHz with 9MB of L3 cache
• System memory: up to 128GB
• Internal storage: up to 3.1TB
• Operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition or Linux®

Dedicated Competence Centers

Bull Competence Centers help enterprises deploy business-critical and HPC applications:

• Application Solution Centers help ISVs and Software Developers to port and optimize their applications to the Intel® Itanium® architecture, whatever the operating system: Windows® or Linux®.
  
• Competence Centers dedicated to enterprise-class application deployments (e-infrastructure, Data Bases, Datawarehousing, ERP/SCM) provide performance optimization, benchmarking and high availability support.
  
• The HPC Competence Center accompanies technical and scientific users in fields such as: choice of the right computing and storage infrastructure, installation, training and application optimization so that they make the most of Bull solutions.