Every day your enterprise is challenged to collect, analyze, and share enormous amounts of information between employees, suppliers, and customers. Turning floods of data into meaningful and actionable information takes a powerful, flexible, and highly reliable infrastructure.

Capitalizing on its experience as the designer and maker of Europe’s largest supercomputer – whith is the largest configration in the world in production equipped with more than 4000 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 ‘Montecito’, Bull affirms its unique expertise around the new-generation Intel® processors.

The Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 ‘Montecito’ processor is available on NovaScale 3005 and NovaScale 5005 series. See Press release >>

Designed specifically for data-intensive workloads, the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor delivers twice the performance of yesterday's processors**, advancements in mainframe-class reliability, and reduces energy requirements by up to 20%** — all without the expense and complexity of proprietary-based solutions.

New features like Intel® Cache Safe Technology, Enhanced Machine Check Architecture, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, and Intel® Virtualization Technology give you the confidence to migrate off proprietary architectures while improving performance and maintaining “always on” service level agreements.

With Dual-Core Itanium® 2-based servers, you'll get unbeatable flexibility and investment protection with 10 operating systems and thousands of applications supported, and a $10 billion investment in Itanium-based solutions by industry-leading providers around the globe***.

Featuring:

• 2x performance, up to 20% lower energy requirements
• Intel® Cache Safe Technology, Enhanced Machine Check Architecture
• Intel® Hyper-Threading Technlogy, Intel® Virtualization Technology
• Standards-based EPIC Architecture
• Extreme compute parallelism, massive caches and CPU execution resources
• thousands of applications and 10 operating systems supported
• 1,024 terabytes of addressable memory; support for clusters of >10,000 processors
  
  

** Performance measured using OLTP (NT/SQL), SPECjbb2005, SPECCPU, Linpack, and SAP-SD. Intel Internal Measurement (March 2006) comparing system configurations of Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 cache to Intel Itanium 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 9 MB L3 cache. Actual performance may vary.
See http://www.intel.com/performance/server/itanium2.
*** http://www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org

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