Amdahl Corp yesterday added a Millennium 400 Series in its new CMOS mainframe family: the new line comprises three new Global Servers and two new Coupling Servers. The new models are aimed at customers running mid- to large-capacity mainframes or who need a dedicated Coupling Server for the move to a Parallel Sysplex environment. They offer more upgrade options from smaller System/390 configurations and also significantly lower the entry point for Parallel Sysplex implementation, the company asserts. The new machines were jointly developed by Amdahl and Fujitsu Ltd, the former adding architectural tweaks to what the latter lays down on Silicon; they use the same technology as the larger Millennium 500 Series servers previously announced. The new GS415, GS422 and GS425 Global Servers will be available from January 1997, and the new CS415 and CS425 Coupling Servers will be available second quarter 1997. Amdahl also intends to support VSE/ESA on the Millennium 400 Series. The machines have a unique Level 1 cache of 256Kb per CPU and Level 2 cache of 8Mb per CPU, providing a total cache capacity that is 15 to 21 times greater than that of any other vendor. There are no longer any prices given by the companies playing in the IBM Corp mainframe world.
