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SUNNYVALE, CA -- Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Inc., a member of the worldwide Fujitsu Group companies, today announced general availability of the 128-processor PRIMEPOWER(TM) 2000 SPARC(R) compliant, Solaris(R) compatible servers – reportedly the world's most powerful transaction processing system for mission-critical enterprise applications. With up to 128 high-performance Fujitsu SPARC64-GPTM processors, the PRIMEPOWER 2000 server offers double the scalability of the competition.* Its interconnect architecture and ultra high bandwidth allow performance to stay high as capacity grows, delivering maximum value from every processor in the system. Huge volumes of data and large numbers of users can be supported. The PRIMEPOWER 2000 128-way server also has more built-in reliability than any system in its class. The PRIMEPOWER 2000 server is rated number one in a SAP ATO benchmark. A PRIMEPOWER 2000 server, with a 563-MHz processor, 128 gigabytes main memory, and 2,548 gigabytes total disk space, recently took the world record for the SAP two-tier ATO (Assemble-to-Order) Standard Application Benchmark with SAP(R) R/3(R) Release 4.6B, performing 34,260 assembly orders per hour. Tested on the Solaris 8 platform running Oracle 8.1.7, the PRIMEPOWER server performed 1.8 times faster than the nearest competitor even while utilizing less than 90 percent of its overall performance capacity.* PRIMEPOWER servers have now captured all of the major SAP standard application benchmark records. "This result shows that Oracle is the obvious database choice for e-business, and the Solaris/SPARC based PRIMEPOWER 2000, the superior platform choice," said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president of Server Technologies at Oracle. "Oracle's customers expect leading technology, low total cost of ownership, and the best performance available." "This was the first SAP benchmark ever run on a 128-processor server," said Dr. Walter Nitsche, manager of the Benchmark Center at Fujitsu Siemens Computers in Germany. "Its crossbar-based architecture is an optimal balanced design with high throughput and low latency built around Fujitsu's own SPARC64 processor. In this benchmark the machine performed flawlessly and scaled nearly perfectly. Doubling any number of CPUs provides more than 90-percent throughput in terms of assembly orders per hour. We are looking forward to running further benchmarks on PRIMEPOWER in the near future." PRIMEPOWER servers also hold other industry-leading performance benchmarks, which demonstrate the extreme performance capability, scalability, stability, flexibility, value, and outstanding overall design of the PRIMEPOWER systems. "Our customers need systems that will grow with them, and the PRIMEPOWER 2000 server provides the ultimate investment longevity," said Richard McCormack, vice president of Marketing, Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "For any customer growing large databases, PRIMEPOWER is the solution they can count on to reliably run their business." Rich Partridge, vice president, Enterprise Servers, D.H. Brown Associates, commented: "The powerful PRIMEPOWER has captured many of the top UNIX(R) server benchmark rankings at the expense of IBM, HP, Compaq, Sun, and others. Leveraging their data center experience, Fujitsu designers have developed a highly scalable server to meet the needs of enterprise UNIX customers. Running the popular Solaris operating environment, with its broad application base, PRIMEPOWER should prove to be as well received in North America as it is in the rest of the world." Fujitsu Technology Solutions offers PRIMEPOWER servers across the entire spectrum of data center requirements, from 1-processor servers for compute nodes to the 128-processor server for the enterprise -- the highest-capacity commercial UNIX system in the marketplace. PRIMEPOWER servers feature a system bus with crossbar switch technology adapted from Fujitsu mainframe design. The result is an ultra high data transfer rate. "The PRIMEPOWER servers are extremely resilient," said Graham Kelly, director of Marketing for Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "Advantages for business continuance include a system layout optimized for cool, reliable operation; hot swappable components; and ECC data protection on all primary data paths ensuring protection from memory errors. PRIMEPOWER servers clustered for high availability have been battle-tested and proven in installations around the world." With its SPARC compliant PRIMEPOWER family of servers, Fujitsu Technology Solutions for the first time injects choice into the Solaris market, invigorating it against competitors HP, IBM, and Compaq. It also increases the importance of, and significantly expands, the Solaris marketplace as a whole. Recently, the Solaris operating environment was declared the best server operating environment by Network Computing, the number one UNIX operating system by D.H. Brown Associates, and declared safe for virtually all mainstream deployment by Gartner Group. To take advantage of this top-rated operating environment, PRIMEPOWER servers have been tested and fully certified to run the Solaris operating environment by the Solaris Hardware Partners Group of Sun Microsystems. With total compliance, PRIMEPOWER servers have access to 12,000 leading ISV applications that will run unchanged in the Solaris environment. As a result, software choice is ensured and software investment protected. Fujitsu Technology Solutions, whose launch was announced on November 14, 2000, focuses on open systems in response to marketplace direction. The company brings together resources and expertise of Fujitsu Limited subsidiaries and leverages Fujitsu's manufacturing capabilities and substantial R&D budget. For additional information visit http://www.fujitsu-technology.com/