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NEC Supports Microsoft Windows
Server 2003
NEC Solutions (America) Inc, a leading provider of business solutions and
services for the high-end commercial and professional markets in North
America, announced that the company will immediately offer its entire line of
NEC Express5800 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Included among its general purpose, fault tolerant and high performance
servers, NEC Solutions stated that its 64-bit Express5800/1000 series servers
will be offered with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, 64-bit.
Yesterday a 1000 series server from NEC Solutions recorded the fastest non-
clustered TPC-C benchmark on a 32- processor system. Just weeks ago the server
also recorded a top 2-tier SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution
Benchmark score. In both instances the server was running Windows Server 2003,
64-bit. The successful combination of mainframe-class processing power, using
Intel Itanium 2 processors, and the Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
operating system clearly demonstrates the new, high-end capabilities available
to enterprise users who are standardized on a Windows environment.
"The combination of Microsoft and NEC Solutions technologies is now at an
inflection point, where the most sophisticated hardware and software
capabilities available can be affordably scaled for broad audiences and at the
same time effectively scale into the datacenter," said Bob Ellsworth,
Director, Windows Server Product Management Group, Microsoft Corp. "NEC's
datacenter hardware technologies running Windows Server 2003-based
applications are already producing world- class benchmarks. The demonstrated
power, lower cost per compute, ease of integration and management present such
a strong case for standards-based technology that proprietary technologies
have a difficult time defending themselves to IT executives."
For scalability, NEC Solutions will offer all three models of the
Express5800/1000 series (8-way, 16-way, 32-way) with Windows Server 2003
Datacenter Edition, 64-bit. These servers provide some of the highest levels
of performance and reliability for mission-critical applications because
servers running Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition must pass very strict
Microsoft hardware compatibility tests. Microsoft has been using the NEC
Express5800/1000 servers, and its predecessors, for the past three years to
help develop Server 2003, 64-bit.
Environments for the NEC Express5800/1000 series using Windows Server 2003
include mission critical applications, financial trading, utilities operation,
research and scientific systems. The hardware / operating system combination
will also allow IT executives to consolidate servers for real-time business
applications such as CRM, ERP, supply chain management and business
intelligence. Consolidating multiple database applications is also possible
and another cost-effective means to simplify database management.
For availability, NEC Solutions' fault tolerant server line has been
closely
engineered along with the creation of Server 2003 in order for the operating
system to take full advantage of the server's continuous availability feature
set. The server/operating system combination is designed to provide continuous
operation (defined as under five minutes of downtime per year by market
analyst firm IDC), complete data integrity and simplified management in the
event of a hardware failure. Mission-critical applications such as email and
small to mid-size database systems that don't require the ultra-high-end
processing capabilities of the 1000 series will also benefit from the server's
simplified design and management features. The servers run all Microsoft
Windows applications in a continuous availability state without any
modification or application programming. After the servers are installed, the
modular design dramatically simplifies server management, to the point where
non-technical staff can service the systems should a hardware component
fail.
"The price/performance value reflected by NEC Solutions servers running
Windows Server 2003 should set an entirely new expectation level among IT
executives," said Mike Mitsch, Sr. Director, NEC Solutions America, Server
Solutions Division. "Working closely with Intel and Microsoft we're driving
incredible performance gains that present simplified, highly cost-effective
options for high performance computing."
The NEC Express5800/1000 Series Servers
The NEC Express5800/1000 series of servers is available as 32-way, 16-way
and
8-way systems. High-speed processing on the entire 1000 Series of servers is
realized with a combination of Intel's new Itanium 2 CPU and NEC's mainframe
and supercomputer technology -- such as crossbar switch technology and high-
speed memory access technology. In addition to the fact that it can be
configured with up to 32 CPUs, the new series employs PCI-X for its I/O bus to
connect with peripheral and network devices. It can also be configured with up
to 112 I/O slots and 512GB of memory, demonstrating the high scalability ideal
for large-scale configurations.
The Express5800/1000 series may be partitioned at the hardware level,
enabling
each subsystem to operate as an independent computer system. It is possible to
divide the 32-CPU system into up to eight subsystems, each of which has four
CPUs, and let them each operate separately. In this way processor capacity can
be allocated according to workload status, resulting in flexible system
operation.
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