Amdahl Corp yesterday duly launched its Fujitsu Ltd-built line of Millenium Global Server CMOS mainframes, for delivery in mid-1996. The machines can be included in System/390 Parallel Sysplex clusters or stand-alone. The company rates them at about twice the performance of IBM Corp’s latest CMOS processors. The first models will be the top three – the 565, 575 and 585, with six, seven and eight processors, 512Mb to 4Gb main memory, up to 3.5Gb Expanded Storage, 32 to 64 copper channels and 0 to 256 fibre optic channels. They will be followed in the fourth quarter by the 535, 545 and 555 models with three, four and five processors and the same memory and channel options as the bigger ones. Estimated MIPS ratings range from 124 on the 535 to 305 on the 585. A new Parallel Sysplex Migration Feature, to be available for the existing 5995M ECL machines next quarter, will enable users to create a Parallel Sysplex environment on a single system, and for centralised management of a 5995M in a Parallel Sysplex, an interface to IBM’s Hardware Management Console will be available next quarter. And the company promises a new line of Spectris Escon-equipped RAID disk arrays, also developed with Fujitsu, to be available in the first quarter of 1996. The new disk arrays will offer up to 726Gb of storage capacity.
