Overview of PRIMEPOWER 2000/1000/800 Hardware
VNaoki Izuta, VToru Watabe, VToshiyuki Shimizu, VTetsuhiko Ichihashi · 2001
Servers, especially highly available and scalable servers, are becoming increasingly important to the Internet. Fujitsu previously developed the GP7000F Model 2000, which uses the SPARC architecture and the Solaris operating system. This model provides scalability to 64 CPUs. Now, Fujitsu has developed the PRIMEPOWER 2000, which has extended the Model 2000’s scalability to 128 CPUs. The new SPARC64 GP processor’s performance has also been improved by incorporating the latest technology. To achieve symmetric multi-processing (SMP) with up to 128 CPUs, the PRIMEPOWER 2000 has an enhanced two-layered crossbar feature that provides a maximum snoop performance of 57.6 gigabytes per second. As well as this extended scalability, the PRIMEPOWER 2000 provides high-availability (HA) features such as redundant components, hot-swap functions for various components, and a partitioning function for computing resources. These features give the PRIMEPOWER 2000/1000/800 the availability demanded by users of servers that must operate 24 hours a day throughout the year. This paper describes the hardware of the PRIMEPOWER 2000/1000/800.