High Availability Server

The Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 server offers mission-critical capability for hosting Microsoft Windows Server (Enterprise Edition and Data Center Edition), Red Hat Advanced Server or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 64-bit operations, and incorporates numerous redundant and hot-plug components for system availability. Its System Mirror mode offers no single point of failure in the crossbars and memory, providing fault immunity for hosted application services. All main components are hot-swappable, and component replacement can be performed without an application halt. Additional priority features of the PRIMEQUEST 580 include up to 64 processors (on 32 Intel Itanium 2 dual-core sockets), 17.3 Gbps bidirectional, per-system board crossbar performance and 136.5 Gbps sustained, low-latency system bandwidth. The server has a maximum memory of 2 TB, supports up to 16 partitions and offers flexible I/O for balanced system configuration and optimized application performance. Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif.