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Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMEPOWER Enterprise Servers

© 2003 Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

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17 April 2003

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Table 6: Competitive Comparison: PRIMEPOWER 2500/1500

PRIMEPOWER

2500-128

PRIMEPOWER

1500

HP Superdome

64

IBM p690

Sun F15K

SPECjbb2000

Not available

Not available

614,358

339,848

602,270

(1.05GHz)

SAP R/3 SD

Two-Tier

Client/Server

Release 4

Not available

(5)

Not available

Not available

4,128 users

8,000 users

SAP R/3 ATO

Two-Tier

Not available

(6)

Not available

18,870

assembly

orders/hr

Not available

Not available

(1) Supports up to106 processors using MaxCPU boards in place of I/O boards.

(2) Optionally available or included as part of HP-UX 11i Enterprise and mission-critical bundles.

(3) The PRIMEPOWER 2000 with 128 SPARC64 GP (563MHz) processors achieved a TPC-C benchmark of

455818 tpmC @ $28.58/tpmC, running Sun Solaris 8 and the SymfoWARE Server database software.

(4) Vendor’s estimate.

(5) The PRIMEPOWER 2000 with 128 SPARC64 GP (563MHz) processors achieved a throughput of 2,345,000

steps/hr and 7,800 users.

(6) The PRIMEPOWER 2000 with 128 SPARC64 GP (563MHz) processors achieved a throughput of 34,260

assembly orders/hr.

Table 7: Competitive Comparison: PRIMEPOWER 900

Fujitsu

PRIMEPOWER

900

HP server

rp8400

IBM pSeries 670

Sun Fire 6800

Unisys ES7000

Aries 230

Processors

SPARC64 V

(1.35GHz)

PA-8700

(750MHz), PA-

8700+ 875MHz)

POWER4

(1.1GHz)

UltraSPARC III

(1.05GHz,

1.2GHz)

Intel Xeon MP

(1.4GHz,

1.6GHz)

Processor

Performance

(SPECint2000)

>800 est.

>800 est.

Not available

839 (1.3GHz)

590 est.

(1.2GHz)

Max. Number of

Processors

Supported

16

16

16

24

16

Min.-Max.

Memory

1GB-64GB

1GB-64GB

4GB-128GB

2GB-192GB

4GB-32GB

I/O Slots (Min.-

Max.)

8-36 PCI

8-16 PCI

10-60 PCI

32 PCI or 16

hot-swap cPCI

24-48 PCI

Form Factor

17U rack-mount

17U rack or

floorstanding

pedestal

42U system

rack

42U system

rack

Floorstanding

cabinet

Summary of Contents for PRIMEPOWER 1500

Page 1: ...lass leading levels of scalability and availability But will the PRIMEPOWER XA SPARC Solaris servers escape from Sun s shadow Note The PRIMEPOWER servers are designed and manufactured by Fujitsu Limited in Japan Fujitsu and its international subsidiaries market them in the Asia Pacific region and the Americas In Europe Middle East and Africa EMEA Fujitsu Siemens Computers markets the PRIMEPOWER se...

Page 2: ...RC Solaris platform the PRIMEPOWER servers can therefore run any of the thousands of applications written for this popular version of Unix The PRIMEPOWER XA models feature an enhanced crossbar new fifth generation versions of Fujitsu s SPARC64 processors improved reliability availability and serviceability RAS features denser packaging than their predecessors improved input output I O technology a...

Page 3: ...between redundant I O adapters The PRIMEPOWER 900 supports two physical partitions PPARs and up to eight extended partitions or XPARs see section on XPARs below PRIMEPOWER 1500 The PRIMEPOWER 1500 is housed in a large 1 8 meter high 70 9 inches stand alone cabinet It supports up to four system boards for a maximum configuration of 32 processors and 128GB of memory It uses the same system boards as...

Page 4: ... processor from the active configuration The Level 2 L2 cache has ECC protection double bit error detection and single bit error correction for both data and tags The Level 1 L1 caches have ECC protection for data while L1 tags are duplicated and immediately corrected if a parity error is detected All this is handled automatically by the hardware without the intervention of the operating system OS...

Page 5: ...enhancements include faster SPARC64 V processors with 1 62GHz versions on the roadmap followed by Fujitsu s sixth generation SPARC64 chip code named Olympus which is planned for the second half of 2004 This will be a dual core processor but will be pin compatible with SPARC64 V and the XA servers Clock speed is likely to be in the 2 5GHz range and the chip will feature separate on chip L2 caches f...

Page 6: ...G 2G 512G Available I O Slots 8 36 64 bit PCI 8 per system board 10 per add on PCI disk box Server supports up to two system boards and two PCI disk boxes 8 72 64 bit PCI 8 per system board 10 per add on PCI disk box Server supports up to four system boards and four PCI disk boxes 0 320 64 bit PCI none on system board 10 per PCI disk box Each system board supports two PCI disk boxes Integrated Bun...

Page 7: ...s ESCoD 1 Yes ESCoD 1 Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C TPC C v 5 transactions per minute of TPC C tpmC per tpmC Information not available Information not available Information not available Entry Price US 177 000 2 393 000 2 1 360 000 2 Standard Warranty One year 5 12 on site call out within four hours 3 One year 5 12 on site call out within four hours 3 One year 5 12 on site...

Page 8: ...s Yes Redundant N 1 Cooling Yes Hot Pluggable Cooling Yes Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID Controller Optional Mirrored System Disks Supported in Solaris I O Multipathing Yes Internet Protocol IP and I O failover supported in Solaris Deconfiguration of Failed Components at Reboot All Models Yes CPUs memory if component fails system deactivates it at the electrical level and deconfigures i...

Page 9: ...tible with the SPARC International standard for SPARC processors and run Sun s Solaris operating system This means they will run any of the applications written for Sun s UltraSPARC Solaris servers Fujitsu claims they offer greater scalability and higher levels of RAS than not only Sun s servers but also other Unix servers The PRIMEPOWER servers are not as well known as their Unix counterparts how...

Page 10: ...ology If Unix market share and awareness belie the true size of Fujitsu FSC as vendors then what about the product itself What other attributes does it have besides binary compatibility with SPARC Solaris The PRIMEPOWER servers most compelling attributes derive from their advanced technology The 1 35GHz SPARC64 V chips are around 35 percent more powerful than Sun s 1 2GHz UltraSPARC III chips Sun ...

Page 11: ...rs Cache Sizes L1 128KB instruction 128KB data L2 2MB on chip two way fully tagged L1 32KB instruction 64KB data L2 8MB off chip one way only eight sublines Out of Order Execution Yes No End to End Data Protection ECC for caches and buses parity protection on execution units and registers ECC for caches and buses no protection on execution units and registers Power Consumption 50 Watts 53 Watts 1 ...

Page 12: ...the vendor has delivered on the technology with the SPARC64 V chips and the XA architecture In addition the PRIMEPOWER servers are binary compatible with SPARC Solaris Gartner is not aware of any areas of application incompatibility Clients should note however that Sun does not support the PRIMEPOWER servers in its Sun Cluster or Workload Manager software This means that it is not possible to use ...

Page 13: ...and hasn t had to build up a new platform from scratch By adopting another vendor s operating system however Fujitsu FSC must sacrifice some of the influence it could have over the direction its operating system takes So for example its XPARs which provide greater granularity than Sun s System Domains are limited by the number of partitions allowed by Solaris Although Sun and Fujitsu FSC are partn...

Page 14: ...two system disks and Solaris 8 right to use license and media 393 000 Midrange Configuration As above but with four system boards 16 CPUs 16GB of memory and four system disks 656 000 High End Configuration As above but with 32 CPUs 64GB of memory and four PCI disk boxes 40 slots 1 174 000 PRIMEPOWER 2500 Low End Configuration PRIMEPOWER 2500 base cabinet eight system board slots four system boards...

Page 15: ...puters and current as of March 2003 Prices are provided only as a guide Gartner accepts no responsibility for their accuracy GSA Pricing Yes Competitors While the Sun F15K and F12K represent the PRIMEPOWERs main competitors the PRIMEPOWER 1500 and 2500 also compete against IBM s pSeries 690 HP s Superdome and IBM s zSeries 900 With its maximum of 16 processors the PRIMEPOWER 900 competes in the mi...

Page 16: ...way 72 PCI 192 PCI 120 PCI 72 PCI Maximum I O Bandwidth 64GB s 64 way or 128 GB second 128 way Information not available 32GB second 16GB second 21 6GB second System Software Operating System Sun Solaris 8 or 9 Sun Solaris 8 or 9 HP UX 11i IBM AIX 5L Sun Solaris 8 or 9 Type of Partitioning Supported Hard Hard Hard nPars soft vPars Logical Hard Maximum Number of Partitions Supported 15 15 16 hard 6...

Page 17: ...y automatic single bit correction in L1 cache by hardware chip kill like fault tolerance ECC on L1 and L2 caches and main memory automatic single bit correction in L1 cache by hardware chip kill like fault tolerance ECC on L2 caches and main memory online de allocation chip kill like fault tolerance soft memory scrubbing ECC on L2 caches and main memory online de allocation chip kill fault toleran...

Page 18: ...ark of 455818 tpmC 28 58 tpmC running Sun Solaris 8 and the SymfoWARE Server database software 4 Vendor s estimate 5 The PRIMEPOWER 2000 with 128 SPARC64 GP 563MHz processors achieved a throughput of 2 345 000 steps hr and 7 800 users 6 The PRIMEPOWER 2000 with 128 SPARC64 GP 563MHz processors achieved a throughput of 34 260 assembly orders hr Table 7 Competitive Comparison PRIMEPOWER 900 Fujitsu ...

Page 19: ...ximum Number of Partitions Supported 8 2 hard 16 soft 16 4 2 Partition Granularity 2 processors 4 processors hard 1 processor soft 1 processor 4 processors 4 processors Dynamic Reconfiguration of Partitions Yes Hard no soft yes Yes AIX 5 2 and above Yes No Workload Management Software Included Yes Solaris 9 and ARMTech Share Enterprise No optionally available or part of HP UX Enterprise and missio...

Page 20: ...pose server on the market This makes it suitable for hosting the largest Unix applications and for consolidating applications and workloads although the 128 way server still supports a maximum of only 15 partitions The PRIMEPOWER XA system architecture is designed for low memory latencies in particular minimizing the difference between near and far memory accesses This makes it better suited to th...

Page 21: ...rt In the first quarter of 2002 Fujitsu rolled its Amdahl IT Services AITS business into Fujitsu Technology Solutions Inc in North America It is still in the process of creating a truly global service business Fujitsu owns numerous disparate services organizations around the world but these have not always been complementary and they are not all integrated Fujitsu needed to integrate AITS with its...

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