Glue-less design for Fujitsu servers

Fujitsu announces the global availability of a new performance class of industry-standard servers to drive x86 economical benefits into the mission-critical computing realm, the new Primergy RX900 S1 x86 eight-socket rack server.

The Primergy RX900 S1 offers the financial sector, public sector, and a broadening range of industries with the high-levels of reliability for scale-up applications previously dominated by expensive and proprietary RISC/Unix systems. Its innovative “glue-less” design combines with the service offerings and solutions of Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures, plus Intel Xeon 7500 processor series and the new Intel QuickPath Interconnect technology, to deliver mission-critical peace-of-mind at an affordable price.

With server virtualisation now moving into the mainstream, not to mention the consolidation of resource-hungry or “fat” virtual machines, demand is set to grow significantly for flexible and reliable scale-up platforms that deliver a quicker return on investment, such as the Primergy RX900 S1. The proliferation of business intelligence, data warehousing applications, plus other demanding high-performance back-end databases, makes reliable scale-up performance crucial for a wide range of business sectors, the company said.

Centralised mission-critical corporate workloads can be deployed on the RX900 S1 with peace-of-mind for extreme performance requirements, as the rack server scales up on demand inside a single 8 U chassis, and without the need for change or re-arrangement of rack infrastructures. Processing power is assured by up to 64 processor cores, up to two terabytes of main memory, plus a highly-aggregated I/O bandwidth of more than 120 gigabytes.

Driving the computing performance and speed of connectivity of Fujitsu’s new eight-socket rack server is an innovative “glue-less” design, where no additional hardware is necessary to run all eight CPUs, therefore providing the shortest route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs. More often, vendors simply “glue together” multiple dual-socket server blades, which leads to I/O bottlenecks, Fujitsu said.

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