OREANDA-NEWS. July 14, 2011. Fujitsu today announces a major step forwards as x86-based servers continue to move into the arena of mission-critical computing. Providing enterprises with new datacenter economics in comparison to legacy RISC/UNIX systems, Fujitsu today introduces new PRIMERGY x86 servers that set a new world record benchmark in terms of transactional database performance.

The proliferation of business intelligence, data warehousing applications and other demanding high-performance back-end databases make reliable scale-up server performance crucial for a wide range of business sectors. Demand continues to grow significantly for flexible, stable scale-up platforms that deliver a quicker return on investment.

Immediate availability1 of the world-record breaking Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 eight-socket rack server and the PRIMERGY RX600 S6 four-socket rack server removes the performance difference that has previously tied enterprises to more expensive and proprietary server systems. With the new generation of PRIMERGY servers, Fujitsu is entering a new high end performance class for x86 servers – providing customers with unbeatable flexibility, manageability and serviceability as datacenter needs inevitably change or grow.

The PRIMERGY RX900 S2 offers many industries, notably the financial and public sectors, the high-levels of reliability for running scale-up applications that was previously dominated by expensive and proprietary RISC/UNIX systems. When paired with the lower price point PRIMERGY RX600 S6, which is designed for customers in the upper-mid-market as well as large enterprises, Fujitsu is showing enterprises a clear path for easily managed and serviced performance scale-up.

The new PRIMERGY models feature Fujitsu’s ‘glue-less’ design, meaning that no additional hardware is necessary to run all eight CPUs. Based on Intel QuickPath Interconnect Technology, this design helps avoid I/O bottlenecks by providing the shortest route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs. As a result, the new systems deliver mission-critical peace-of-mind at an affordable price. Seamless scale-up is also a hallmark of PRIMERGY models, since processor, memory and I/O components can all be upgraded, leaving organizations with headroom for cost-effective future growth without having to rebuild entire racks or purchase new systems.

Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President Product Development Group at Fujitsu Technology Solutions says: “This new generation of x86 servers is taking Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers into a different league. The steady erosion of UNIX server market share by x86-based systems will now accelerate. Fujitsu’s new breed of scale-up PRIMERGY servers are proving themselves equally capable of the heavy lifting required in high-end datacenter environments, while also setting new, radically lower price points for mission-critical computing.”
World-record breaking performance from PRIMERGY RX900 S2
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) ranks at launch the PRIMERGY RX900 S2 as the top TPC-E performing server system2. According to the TPC-E rankings, Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY servers are not only consistently among the most powerful servers in the world, but also repeatedly offer among the best price-performance.

Centralized mission-critical corporate workloads can be deployed reliably on the PRIMERGY RX900 S2 for extreme performance requirements. Processing power is assured by using up to 8 Intel Xeon E7-8800 CPUs providing 80 processor cores, up to 4TB of main memory, plus a highly-aggregated I/O bandwidth of more than 100 gigabytes. The RX600 S6 four- socket server provides up to 40 processor cores using the new Intel Xeon E7-4800 processor generation and supports up to 2TB of main memory.

The PRIMERGY RX900 S2 provides unprecedented operational continuity as its high-availability functions perfectly combine with the new reliability-, availability-, and scalability functions of the Intel Xeon E7-8800 series processor.

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) defines transaction processing and database benchmarks to independently evaluate the power and performance of modern On-line Transaction Processing (OLTP) Systems.

Notes to Editors:

1. The PRIMERGY RX900 S2 is available globally except for Japan. The PRIMERGY RX600 S6 is available globally, ready to order from July 4, 2011.

2. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published as of June 6, 2011 at: http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp. The TPC Benchmark™ is a trademark or registered trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.

The Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 system using eight Intel® Xeon® E7-8870 2.40 GHz Processors and a memory of 2TB achieved a TPC-E result of 4.555 tpsE and a price/performance score of 217.27 USD per tpsE (24 percent better price/performance than the current closest 8 socket competitor system using the same processor technology, with 4.200 tpsE and 287.42 USD per tpsE). Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX900 S2 is also the first 8-socket server to achieve a TPC-Energy Benchmark with only 1.00 watt per tpsE. System availability date is mid-July 2011.

About the TCP Benchmark
TPC Benchmark™ E (TPC-E) is a On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload developed by the TPC. The TPC-E benchmark simulates the OLTP workload of a brokerage firm. The focus of the benchmark is the central database that executes transactions related to the firm’s customer accounts. Although the underlying business model of TPC-E is a brokerage firm, the database schema, data population, transactions, and implementation rules have been designed to be broadly representative of modern OLTP systems.