14 DAY TRIAL // As we informed you last week, leading chip maker Intel is expected to finally unveil the very first six-core processors, codenamed “Dunnington,” this week – although no specific date was made public at the time. Regardless of that, it now looks like the Santa Clara-based chip maker is going to announce the Xeon 7400 processors today, according to a Fujitsu-Siemens press release, in which the company details the new PRIMERGY server.
Aside from claiming that its new PRIMERGY is the most powerful server in the lineup, Fujitsu-Siemens also places a lot of emphasis on the fact that it features support for Intel's Xeon MP 7400 series of processors. However, despite the official press release from Fujitsu-Siemens, Intel is yet to announce the new 6-core Dunningtons, which are said to deliver a new level of performance to Intel-based servers systems.
“As Intel has introduced new members of the Xeon MP 7000 sequence over the last 18 months, we have seen progressive performance gains with multi-core processors, with the chips in today’s 7400 series delivering up to 56 percent more power than the Xeon MP 7300 series,” said Senior Vice President, Enterprise Server Business at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Jens-Peter Seick.
Fujitsu-Siemens' new range of x86 PRIMERGY RX600 S4 rack servers are immediately available for order. Touted as being the ideal platform for both mid-range customers as well as for large enterprises, they combine four and six core processors with up to 16MB of L3 cache to deliver a new level of performance, unattainable with any of today's solutions. Each RX600 S4 unit comes with support for up to 256GB of RAM, due to the new 8GB memory modules, which will be introduced later this year.
In addition to the introduction of the new PRIMERGY RX600 S4, Fujitsu-Siemens has also announced that the new servers got very impressive results in the TPC Benchmark E, a new On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload being developed by the TPC. Fujitsu-Siemens' new server systems have achieved a throughput of 721.40 tpsE (transactions per second TPC-E) and 459.71 $/tpsE.
“We recognized that large enterprise customers want to take advantage of the very real performance gains from the latest generation of multi-core processors, but are not necessarily ready to throw out their entire database and virtualization server farms in order to achieve these benefits. That is why we designed the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 series to offer snap-in upgradability for newer multi-core processors – so that over the last year, enterprises could start laying the foundations for today’s announcement from Intel. With the introduction of the latest Intel Xeon MP 7400 series processors, we have been able to unleash the most-powerful industry standard servers ever in the PRIMERGY family,” Seick added.