14 DAY TRIAL // Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced the launch of a new generation of high performance servers based on the Intel quad core Xeon MP central processing units, the PRIMERGY RX line of products which provide near double computing power over the previously available models while being extremely energy efficient. The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 servers come in the form of rack mountable units which are well suited for virtualization applications as they are built around Intel's first 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon MP 7200 and 7300 processor series codenamed Tigerton.
The replacement of the dual core Intel processors with quad core CPUs will mean for the PRIMERGY line of servers a much lower heat signature per processor and therefore reducing energy consumption and the likeness of a hardware failure because of excessive heat buildup. Apart from the latest generation of Intel quad core central processing units the new Fujitsu Siemens generation of servers can accommodate a maximum of 128GB of random access memory which makes them the perfect tools for virtualization servers and applications.
Supporting up to 4 Intel processors with 4MB of the third level of cache memory and a high 1066MHz frontside bus speed as well as DDR2 FBDIMM, memory modules packed in 32 DIMM slots with a running frequency of 667MHz. Like all dedicated high performance servers from Fujitsu Siemens the PRIMERGY RX line of servers offers support for error-correction code (ECC) memory scrubbing and SDDC (Single Device Disable Code), memory mirroring and hot-spare. Expansion slots are also provided as the server comes with 4 PCI Express 8x slots as well as 3 PCI Express 4x ones while the storage department is represented by an 8 port SAS RAID solution coupled with eight 2.5 inch hard disk drives, a tape backup and a slimline DVD burner optical drive.
In order to keep the computer system running cool for as long as possible and ensure an optimal internal temperature, the PRIMERGY RX comes with a number of hot swapping coolers for the memory modules and two fans for the whole case as well as a redundant power supply unit of 1570W. According to the manufacturing company, the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 rack server demonstrates impressive performance in the business oriented SPECjbb2005 benchmark thanks to its state of the art x86 compatible hardware components.