Hitachi announces products plan of 32 way IA-64 servers

 Tokyo 13 Jan 00 Hitachi will release its forthcoming line of IA-64 Inte Itanium processo based servers and workstations during the second half of this year. The company i will provide its high scalability 32-way servers and cluster systems incorporating its advanced mainframe technologies. Hitachi will adopt multiple operating systems technology on one server to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Hitachi views IA-64 servers as being core systems for supporting next generation Internet business solutions. Hitachi recognizes that future information systems architecture will be constructed from three layers: a front end layer (e.g., Web server), application layer (e.g., ERP, CRM, SCM, OLAP) and a back end layer (e.g., database, data warehouse). Based on this architecture, Hitachi will provide IA-64 solutions and several platform menus for each application's characteristics.

Hitachi's Itanium processor-based servers will comprise a broad-based lineup that includes 4-way and 2-way servers as well as 32-way and 8-way servers using Hitachi's own chipset. The 32-way and 8-way servers, with their large cache memory, run applications much faster. The 32-way server, which uses advanced SMP technologies, will provide high scalability.

Cluster systems utilizing "InfiniBand(TM)" architecture are being planned. Plans are currently underway to use of multiple operating systems technology on one server (logical partitioning), which will allow servers to be consolidated and to be load- balanced, reducing TCO. The strengthening high reliability and high availability technology will provide stable system operation.

In addition, IA-64 based workstations will be shipped with powerful graphic capabilities for use in Internet oriented engineering, finance and design sectors.

Hitachi has been strongly allied with Intel for the implementation of the 4-way Itanium(TM) processor server chipset, and has had engineers in projects within Intel's Enterprise Technology Center (ETC) since the center was first established.

 

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