Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News However, the new Primepower 2000 system is arriving months later than a planned April introduction and will go on sale in a shrinking market for servers that has spurred price-cutting and other aggressive competitive tactics.
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
TI To Upgrade UltraSparc Manufacturing
News The top-end 128-processor Primepower 2000, the 32-processor PrimePower 1000 and the 16-processor PrimePower 800 products are available with 788MHz chips. Texas Instruments has begun making Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc processors on a more advanced...
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
IBM Takes Top Spot In Server-speed Race
News The king of the TPC-C mountain is Fujitsu Technology Solutions, with a 128-processor PrimePower 2000, but that system uses unusual database software while HP and IBM, both of which have vastly more Unix server market share, use the common Oracle...
[May 24, 2002, 12:02]
New CPUs Fuel Server Competition
News At the high end, IBM's line of "Regatta" servers, the pSeries 690, with 32 processors competes head-on against Sun's 64-processor Fire 15K, HP's 64-processor Superdome, and Fujitsu's 128-processor Primepower 2000.
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
Solaris 9 Update Speeds Up Networks
News At the extreme end, it costs $400,000 to upgrade a 128-processor Solaris system such as Fujitsu Technology Solutions' Primepower 2000 or 2500. Sun Microsystems has released the first update of Solaris 9, its new version of the Unix operating system...
[October 11, 2002, 9:27]
