Bull NovaScale 5160/6160
NovaScale® 5160/6160 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 (6160: 1 standard
to 2 partitions)
NovaScale 5160/6160 are SMP rack-optimized servers delivered
in a high cabinet. NovaScale 5160 models can be upgraded towards
NovaScale 6160 models. They support up to 16 processors and
provide clustering
capabilities. 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 6160
models support physical partitioning.
Industry leading price-performance ratio
The outstanding price/performance ratio of NovaScale 5160/6160
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 5160/6160 is provided
by Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and the Intel® E8870
chipset interconnected in order to create high performance
4- 8- 12- 16-way servers. NovaScale 5160/6160 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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