Fujitsu Ltd says it’s still working on a schedule for introducing ccNUMA mainframes and Windows NT servers clustered using its SynFinity high-performance, low-latency interconnect (CI No 3,354). The interconnect, developed by its Fujitsu System Technologies unit, has already been announced for use in clustering up to 16 of the new eight-way Granpower servers which Fujitsu will begin selling in Japan initially (CI No 3,532). It expects to sell the servers worldwide by the end of next year when it should be able to offer 64-way clustering. The 64-bit Sparc chip Fujitsu is using in the Series 7000GP servers is a third generation of its Hal Computer Systems Ltd unit’s Sparc64 design done in 0.25 microns. With 2Mb L2 cache the 225MHz chip performs 14 SPECint05 and 17.5 SPECfp95. With 4Mb at 250MHz it achieves 15.9 SPECint95 and 19.9 SPECfp95 and at 275MHz and with 8Mb cache is performs 17.6 SPECint95 and 26.6 SPECfp95.
