HAL Computer Systems introduces Fujitsu SPARC 8-way SMP Servers

Campbell, 10 November 98 HAL Computer Systems, a Fujitsu subsidiary, developed the Fujitsu GP7000/GP7000F family of SPARC servers for North America. The GP7000 is available now with the GP7000F scheduled to be available in early 1999. The GP7000/GP7000F servers use the Sun Solaris operating system and are compatible with Sun Catalyst applications.

The GP7000 Model 200 is an entry-level server that can be upgraded to dual 300 MHz UltraSPARC-II processors, 4 Gbytes of memory and 8 internal disk drives. The Model 400 supports up to four processors and the Model 600 up to eight processors. All multi-processor configurations are SMP (synchronous multiprocessing) and can handle a range of SBus devices, RAID and networking connections.

The Model 600 can be configured with up to 8 Gbytes of memory and 22 internally housed hard disk drives. Early in the first quarter of 1999, 360 MHz UltraSPARC-II processors will be available as upgrades for all models. The GP7000F features a PCI device bus, scales to eight processors, and is equipped with enhanced RAS features. Building on RAS features found in all GP7000 models, the GP7000F offers a SCF (system control facility) that monitors the system status, reporting potential failures and malfunctions. The GP7000F features hot-swap tape and disk drives, dual hot-swap power supplies and ECC protection for main memory and cache.

The GP7000F will use the new Fujitsu SPARC64-GP superscalar. The SPARC64-GP packs 17.6 million transistors on a 240-millimeter die. At 272 MHz, the system delivers 17.6 SPECint95, 26.6 SPECfp95 and 816 MFlops. The GP7000F can be upgraded beginning in mid-1999 with processors up to 300 MHz and supporting level 2 cache up to 8 Mbytes.

The GP7000F is fully compatible with Sun Catalyst listed SPARC / Solaris applications. A suite of application development tools, including compilers, libraries and code management applications is available for the entire GP7000 family.

Sandra Wermer