Unisys to provide 16- and 32-processor servers based on Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture to HitachiBlue Bell 18 January 2001 Unisys Corporation today announced the signing of an OEM agreement where Unisys will provide servers based on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) server architecture to Hitachi for sale in Japan.
With the announcement, Hitachi will add to their existing line of quality
servers a powerful and extremely scalable option for customers with data
intensive computing environments. Unisys CMP is the only server architecture to
take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating
system's support for 32 processors. This breakthrough Unisys server technology
will enable Hitachi customers to apply the broad array of solutions written for
the Windows environment to their largest, most demanding enterprise computing
tasks.
Servers based on the Unisys CMP architecture provide an array of
computing capabilities required for enterprise-class e-business computing and
well known to users of large-scale computers, but unprecedented in computing
environments based on Microsoft and Intel technology. Unisys CMP is designed
for the power of Intel IA-64 Itanium processors and can accommodate up to 32
Intel IA-32 Pentium III Xeon processors, which can be field-upgraded to Intel
IA-64 Itanium processors or combined with Itanium processors in the same
server. These advantages enable the ES7000 to match the performance of UNIX
systems in enterprise-class e-business and other critical applications at a
fraction of the price. Emerging as a de facto standard for large-scale
Microsoft- and Intel-based platforms, Unisys also is providing CMP server
technology under OEM agreements to Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and ICL.
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