Bull NovaScale 5080/6080
NovaScale® 5080/6080 business-critical servers from Bull are
based on the latest generation of the Intel® Itanium® 2
processors. They deliver outstanding price/performance ratio
and scalability thereby providing extended investment protection.
- Based on the Intel® E8870 Chipset
- Fast interconnect
- Platform and System Management console
- Large memory addressability
- Physical partitioning (6080 : 1 standard to 2 partitions)
NovaScale 5080/6080 are SMP rack-optimized servers delivered
in a high cabinet. They support up to 8 processors and provide
clustering capabilities. NovaScale 5080 servers can be
upgraded towards NovaScale 6080 servers. They integrate a
system management
console delivering a unified visibility
of
the system environment,
operating system, servers, storage and SAN through a single
point of operation. They run Windows ® or Linux ® operating
systems. NovaScale 6080 servers support physical partitioning.
Industry leading price-performance ratio
The outstanding price/performance ratio of NovaScale 5080/6080
servers is achieved thanks to the low cost of ownership of
standard technologies combined with their breakthrough performance
and scalability. Thanks to the 64-bit architecture and addressability
they provide the capability to scan in-memory large databases,
thus drastically increasing the performance.
In addition, the
use of 64-bit addressing is a great step forward to manage
large data sets in Business Intelligence, ERP and SCM as well
as data-intensive applications, since it enables much faster data processing.
The EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) technology provides faster
processing of complex instructions and faster floating-point processing to
address the requirements of enterprise and technical workloads.
Outstanding scalability
The outstanding scalability of NovaScale 5080/6080 is provided
by Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and the Intel® E8870
chipset interconnected in order to create high performance
4- 8- way servers. NovaScale 5080/6080 servers offer extended investment
protection by supporting future generations of the Intel® Itanium® 2
processor family.
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.
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