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Fujitsu Siemens Computers has added the 8-socket Primergy BX630 to its family of blade servers.

The new server blade is a high density and powerful one aimed at server farms and data centre applications based on the AMD Opteron processors.

You can choose four 2-socket servers into an 8-socket server by deploying the Direct Connect Architecture of the AMD Opteron processors and connecting the blade via the HyperTransport link, a unique Fujitsu Siemens Computers feature.

You can switch to and from running 2-socket servers to 4-socket or 8-socket servers - all without investing in new hardware. This ‘2+2+2+2’ performance is equal to that of a standard 8-socket server, and with dual-core AMD Opteron processors, this blade concept provides 16 physical processor cores for up to 128GB memory from one 8-socket blade system.

This adaptability makes the Primergy BX630 ideal for a broad range of application areas, from demanding terminal server farms to high performance database or data centre application server configurations.

Running on AMD’s Opteron dual socket processors running at 2.6GHz, the company claims the server produced a new Microsoft Exchange MAPI Messaging Benchmark (MMB3) world record using Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved world-class Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 scalability results of 12008 MMB3-users and surpassed the latest results achieved by Hewlett-Packard on a four-socket system.

The MAPI Messaging Benchmark 3 (MMB3) is the benchmarking standard for measuring the performance and scalability of computers running Exchange Server 2003. Its benchmarking workload and methodology serves as the standard for Exchange Server 2003 MAPI server comparison. The MMB3 workload is characteristic of a medium corporate mail environment.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved the world record using a Primergy BX630 server blade equipped with two AMD Opteron 885 Dual-Core 2.6GHz 1MB L2 processors, two 250GB disks for operating systems and system log files, and 570 36GB disks for Exchange database and log files. The box achieved an average CPU utilisation rate of 87.1 per cent during the 12008 MMB3 test and response-time score of 245ms.

The Primergy BX630 is part of the Primergy Blade Ecosystem BX600 which is designed for a broad range of application areas, from Web server or terminal server farms with lower performance demands all the way to high performance database or application server configurations.

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