superserver

"It's up and running, but we plan to put a superserver in place within two weeks so that nobody has to wait."

Not everyone needs the horsepower of a superserver, of course.

He suggested that the proposed deal would be a good thing, as it would immediately validate the still ill-defined superserver market.

Analysts say that OS/2 2.0 is reason enough for IBM to advance into the superserver market.

Designed as a superserver or mid-range multi-tasking system it has a 400Mb drive, 16Mb memory, SCSI adaptor, and serial parallel port.

Sequent determined some months ago that it should expand into the MP/PC superserver business based around NT (UX No 392).

This, when combined with the OSF/1 operating system implementation dubbed HI-OSF/1-M, will be sold as the Osiris Superserver.

Upon Silicon Graphics' acquisition of Cray Research in 1996, the Superserver business (by now the Cray Business Systems Division) was sold to Sun.

This was largely designed by Cray Research's Business Systems Division as a successor to the Cray Superserver 6400, itself related to Sun's earlier Sun-4d architecture servers.

Meantime NEC has come out with two new models in its SuperServer UP4800 series and three new models in the EWS4800 workstation series.

Cray Research Inc is to begin shipments this month of its new Sparc Vector II processor for its Cray S-MP superserver system.

The Sparc Vector II processor is claimed to boost vector performance of the superserver product by a factor of four over the previous S-MP vector module.

AST plans to make the box available running other operating systems as well including Microsoft NT, Novell SuperServer, Banyan Vines and perhaps Solaris 2.0.

Pyramid also promises a repost to arch rival Sequent Computer Systems Inc's plans to offer Microsoft Corp NT-based superserver systems (UX No 392).

The Cray Superserver 6400, or CS6400, was a multiprocessor server computer system produced by Cray Research Superservers, Inc., a subsidiary of Cray Research, and launched in 1993.

In 1994 the DRS range was superseded by the SuperServer and TeamServer ranges of SPARC and Intel-based machines, running Unix or Microsoft operating systems.

The SuperServer 5015A is a half-depth 1U Atom server, and, while it can't approach the density of any other server product on the market, this solution offers a lower per-server power footprint than literally anything else.

Sequent Computer Corp confirmed last week reports that it is to move into the multi-processor PC 'superserver' business, basing its software strategy around Microsoft Corp's forthcoming NT operating system (UX No 390).

This machine was upgraded to a Cray S-MP superserver after Cray acquired Floating Point Systems in December in 1991 and used the Folklore Operating System supplied by the NSA in the US.

Parker, of course has to argue for the mainframe's continued existence, but he does so persuasively with a blizzard of points seeking to prove that a) the mainframe market isn't really in decline and b) the mainframe will be able to evolve successfully into an indispensable network superserver.

The company asserts that the cuts will not affect Y-MP entry level, mid-range and C90 products or development of follow-on parallel vector supercomputer systems nor the massively parallel effort or development of Sparc-based superserver products by Cray Research Superservers in Beaverton, Oregon.