Bull announces two new single-socket NovaScale servers featuring quad-core Intel® Xeon® 3200 series processors

Increased performance/watt, energy efficiency, scalability and reliability for the new entry-level servers from the NovaScale Universal range

Paris, January  10, 2007 -

Bull announces the single-socket quad-core T810 and T820 servers featuring the new Intel® Xeon® 3200 series processors - codenamed Kentsfield.

Available in tower format, these entry-level servers used as file or print servers perfectly meet workgroup requirements.

As with all NovaScale servers, the T810 and T820 servers are administered using NovaScale Master, the software suite developed by Bull to ensure ease of operation and reduce the management costs of IT infrastructures.

"By integrating four cores on a single processor, these new servers provide outstanding price/performance and energy/performance ratios. They will contribute to reducing the costs of infrastructures using entry-level servers," commented Pierre Duval, Director of Bull's NovaScale Business Unit.

NovaScale Universal T810 and T820: key advantages

- Performance/watt

- Reliability

- Simplified installation and administration

Technical specifications

NovaScale Universal T810 model

- Tower format

- One quad-core Intel® Xeon® 3200 processor

- 1066 Mhz FSB Bus, EM64T

- Four SATA/SCSI HDDs or three hot-swap SCSI HDDs

- Up to 2TB internal storage

- Up to 8GB main memory (DDR2 533/667)

- Three PCI-Express slots + two PCI 5V

NovaScale Universal T820 model

- Tower format

- One quad-core Intel® Xeon® 3200 processor

- 1066 Mhz FSB Bus, EM64T,

- Four hot-swap SATA2 or SAS HDDs

- Up to 2TB internal storage

- Up to 8GB main memory (DDR2 533/667 ECC)

- Two PCI-Express slots + three PCI 5V

Software

Windows® Server 2003 R2

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 4.4

SUSE Linux® SLES 10

Intel® Xeon® series 3200 processor

The Intel® Xeon® series 3200 processor features a 1066 Mhz FSB, a 2 x 4MB cache memory and virtualisation technologies. Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® 32 and 64-bit applications are supported.

Price and availability of T810 and T820 servers

Price of a NovaScale Universal T810 configuration with one processor, 512MB memory, one 80GB disk and one DVD: €820.

Available now.

Price of a NovaScale Universal T820 configuration with one processor, 512MB memory, one 80GB disk and one DVD: €1,140

Available in February 2007.

About Bull

Bull is a leader in secure mission-critical digital systems. The Group is dedicated to developing and implementing solutions where computing power and security serve to optimize its customers' information systems, to support their business.

Bull operates in high added-value markets including computer simulation, Cloud computing and 'computing power plants', outsourcing and security.

Currently Bull employs around 9,000 people across more than 50 countries, with over 700 staff totally focused on R&D. In 2011, Bull recorded revenues of €1.3 billion.

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