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Fujitsu and Amdahl Unveil Teamserver M800i with Intel Pentium II Xeon Processors

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Fujitsu and Amdahl Corporation have joined forces to introduce the Fujitsu teamserver M800i, a high-performance server that leverages the power of up to eight Intel Pentium II Xeon processors. This expandable architecture, based on the Synfinity interconnect, enables customers to scale their systems by adding more nodes, providing exceptional performance and capacity in enterprise-class applications.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Fujitsu teamserver M800i is designed for large-scale solutions that unify Windows NT, UNIX, and MVS, with a scaleable architecture and connectivity that meets the throughput demands of applications such as enterprise messaging, Internet/electronic commerce, and desktop-to-host OLTP.
  • The server's modular design allows for incremental upgrades and expansion, enabling customers to realize the benefits of their investments for a longer period of time.
  • The Synfinity interconnect architecture links high-volume, four-way systems into higher-order, shared-memory multiprocessors with a single-system image, operating at the 100MHz system bus speed of Intel's Pentium II Xeon processor chipset.
  • The server's enhanced RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) functions include Fujitsu's Fast Reliable Diagnosis (FRD) for pinpointing faulty components, hot plug and redundant fans, power supplies, and disks, server management software, cool-running design, ECC error correction, and detection on all processor and memory functions.
  • The Fujitsu teamserver M800i is available with Amdahl's LVS storage system, supporting multiple terabytes of data over high-performance Fibre Channel links, and the Amdahl channel connection for ESCON, supporting SNA and TCP/IP connectivity to System/390 mainframes.

Statistics:

  • The Fujitsu teamserver M800i can support up to four Pentium II Xeon processors in a single node, with the capability to expand to eight-way systems.
  • The server can operate at a speed of 400MHz, with a choice of 512KB or 1MB level-two caches.
  • The server supports up to 8GB of memory, five 64-bit PCI slots, and five 32-bit PCI slots.
  • The Synfinity interconnect architecture offers very high bandwidth and very low latency, critical components for clustered server systems and parallel processing applications.
  • Fujitsu Limited had consolidated revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998.
  • Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace.

Sources:

  • "Amdahl Corporation to Distribute Fujitsu Teamserver M800i," Amdahl Corporation, Tuesday, [no date specified].
  • Kazuto Kojima, senior vice president, board member, and group president, marketing group at Fujitsu Limited, quoted in "Fujitsu Teams Up with Amdahl to Introduce Teamserver M800i," Fujitsu Limited, [no date specified].
  • Pat Buddenbaum, Pentium II Xeon processor marketing manager, Intel's Enterprise Server Group, quoted in "Fujitsu and Amdahl Launch Teamserver M800i," Intel, [no date specified].
  • Richard Partridge, vice president, Parallel Open System Hardware, D.H. Brown Associates, quoted in "Amdahl's Introduction of Fujitsu's New Technology is a Significant Step Forward," D.H. Brown Associates, [no date specified].

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