Fujitsu Siemens Primepower 850 Version C

Fujitsu Siemens Primepower 850 Version C ... developed to meet the growth requirements of workgroups and midsize enterprises. Designed as a 16U-high compute node, this system delivers very high, linearly scalable performance in a minimal footprint and offers a low total cost of ownership, particularly for customers who see no necessity for the deployment of partitioning enabled systems within their organization.

The exceptional performance of this system is based on up to 16 latest-generation 1.35GHz SPARC64V processors, each featuring a 2MB second-level cache on chip, optimized branch prediction algorithms and significantly increased inter-processor and processor/memory bandwidths.

These outstanding features are enhanced by the optimized system architecture, which, in leveraging the system clock speed to 540 MHz (270MHz crossbar clock speed), enables the bus transfer rate to be increased to 34.6 GB/s (effective) based on the use of 'source-sync' technology.

Main memory sizes up to 128 GB add the finishing touch, fulfilling all the wishes of demanding data center operators, particularly when it comes to running midrange and high-end database applications.

With this system, compute, I/O and peripheral blocks are kept strictly separate: Aside from the DVD-ROM and optional magnetic tape device, this compute node contains only up to four internal hard disks, which can be used as a mirrored root system. Additional hard disk capacity can be provided by attaching the node to rack mountable disk boxes or separate (also rack mountable) storage subsystems.

The I/O section provides sixteen 64-bit PCI slots (connected to eight separate I/O buses) 'in-box' and, as an optional add-on, two rack mountable PCI boxes with each twelve 64-bit PCI slots (each connected to six separate I/O buses), i.e. a total capacity of up to 40 PCI slots.

Reliability is also raised to new levels with the introduction of the redundant power connection option, a feature previously reserved for the enterprise model range.