Tokyo, April 17, 2008 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the immediate availability of a new line of mission-critical IA servers, the PRIMEQUEST 520A/540A/580A, built around the newest Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 9100 series processor.

Fujitsu also announced that the PRIMEQUEST 580A posted the fastest results in the industry on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD)⁽¹⁾ Standard Application Benchmark on a system running Microsoft® Windows Server® and the SAP ERP application Release 6.0. Through these results, Fujitsu demonstrates that PRIMEQUEST servers deliver the world's highest performance on the two-tier SA

P SD Standard Application Benchmark running both Windows Server®⁽²⁾ and Linux^(3).

Overview of the PRIMEQUEST Mission-Critical IA Server

The PRIMEQUEST line of mission-critical servers combines the open-standard architecture of Itanium® processors and Linux and Windows Server® operating systems with the high-reliability hardware technology Fujitsu has accumulated through its long track record in mainframe systems.

The new PRIMEQUEST server platform is ideally suited to open-standard environments requiring high reliability and scalability, for such applications as databases, ERP solutions, mission-critical system restructuring, and scientific computing.

PRIMEQUEST 520A, 540A, 580A

The mid-range PRIMEQUEST 520, and the high-end PRIMEQUEST 540 and PRIMEQUEST 580 models, which were introduced in July 2006, have now been upgraded with the latest Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 9100 series of processors, to deliver the PRIMEQUEST 520A, PRIMEQUEST 540A, PRIMEQUEST 580A models, with up to 8/16/32 CPUs, respectively. In particular, the high-end PRIMEQUEST 540A and PRIMEQUEST 580A models have achieved an increase in front side bus clock frequency from 533 MHz to 667 MHz.

New Features

To complement the latest operating systems, the PRIMEQUEST 540A and PRIMEQUEST 580A models now include dynamic partitioning, making it possible to dynamically change hardware configurations that support partitioning.

With systems running Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5.1 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2008, dynamic partitioning makes it possible to balance work load among system boards while the systems are still running. If CPU or memory demands increase due to increased data volumes or the number of users, backup system boards automatically perform load sharing to increase processing capacity and ensure the continuity of service.

In addition, with systems running Windows Server® 2008, system boards can be swapped live, so that if a system board starts to show signs of failure, a backup can be swapped in without interrupting the continuity of service, to minimize any potential business loss.

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