Fujitsu Announces 8-Socket x86 Servers

Fujitsu has announced the global availability of the new Primergy RX900 S1 x86 eight-socket rack server to drive x86 economical benefits into the mission-critical computing realm.

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. It is combined with the service offerings and solutions of Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures, plus Intel Xeon 7500 processor series and the new Intel QuickPath Interconnect technology.

Pallab Talukdar, CEO Fujitsu India said, "With server virtualization 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."

Centralized mission-critical corporate workloads can be deployed on the RX900 S1 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. It comes with up to 64 processor cores, up to 2TB of main memory, plus a highly-aggregated I/O bandwidth of more than 120GB.

Driving the computing performance and speed of connectivity of Fujitsu’s new eight-socket rack server is a ‘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.

“Two market trends are combining which will drive the success of the Primergy RX900 S1. Server virtualization is moving into the mainstream, while customers are reducing operational costs by consolidating older dual- and quad-socket servers, and replacing UNIX servers in favor of industry-standard flexibility and price performance. The glue-less design of the RX900 S1, and seamless scale-up of processor, memory and I/O capacities—within a single 8U server box for added investment protection—makes it the most compelling eight-core x86 server,” Talukdar said.