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Bull NovaScale® 9000 Series
The new generation of GCOS 8 enterprise
servers based on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Bull's FAME architecture
Protected investments, openness and mainframe disciplines
The servers of the Bull NovaScale 9000 Series run GCOS 8 Operating
System using standard building blocks and execute existing GCOS 8 customer
applications without change (binary compatible).
Each server integrates the GCOS 8 and Open environments, allowing
extensive cooperation between the applications of the two worlds.
Bull NovaScale 9000 Series provides reliability and robustness that
characterize mainframes, allied with constantly falling costs of
acquisition and ownership. It completes the current GCOS 8 platform
offer, Bull DPS 9000/TA200 and TA300.
The Bull NovaScale 9000 Series includes the
following servers:
These servers offer an evolution path
mainly for
users of the Bull DPS 9000/500 (RPMII), Bull DPS 9000/700
(Jupiter 1) and Bull DPS 9000/TA (Olympus) systems, to which they bring greater power, more openness, new
functions of the SR6.1 version of GCOS 8, inclunding 64 bits native mode, and a significant improvement in
TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
The NovaScale 9165 and 9325 servers are based
on dual core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. They benefit
from advanced physical partitioning features and provide more power and
flexibility to simultaneously run GCOS 8, Microsoft® Windows® 2003 and Linux®
(Read Hat or SuSE).
The GCOS 8 partitions are available in 48 models
supporting up to 12 processors dedicated to GCOS 8.
They offer power for GCOS 8 applications of up to 6300 TPS (transactions
per second).
Each GCOS 8 physical partition can run up
to three copies of GCOS 8, making the Logical Partitioning (LGP) a new
feauture similar to Virtual Machine Facility (VMF) on Olympus.
The DBSP (Data Base Server Processor)
available on NovaScale 9165 and 9325 servers is based on a Linux® Red Hat
physical partition, linked to the GCOS 8 partition via an InfiniBand link.
A strategy for the long term
The Bull NovaScale 9000 Series as been developed within the Helios
program which involves hundreds of R&D people from Bull.
In the coming
months and years, Bull NovaScale 9000 Series will be constantly enhanced
to provide GCOS 8 customers with more power and openness, the reliability
and robustness that characterize mainframes, better price/performance
ratios offered by standard building blocks, and improved connectivity for
enterprise’s applications.
FAME: Flexible Architecture for
Multiple Environments
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