Bull NovaScale 6320

NovaScale® 6320 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
• Physical partitioning (1 standard to 4 partitions)
• Fast interconnect
• Platform and System Management console
• Large memory addressability

NovaScale 6320 are SMP rack-optimized servers delivered in two high cabinets. They support up to 32 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.

Industry leading price-performance ratio

The outstanding price/performance ratio of NovaScale 6320 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 6320 is provided by Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and the Intel® E8870 chipset interconnected in order to create high performance 8- 12- 16- 20- 24- 28- 32-way servers. NovaScale 6320 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.