Data General Corp is taking its AViiON server line up into the stratosphere with launch of the AV 10000 symmetric multiprocessing server that scales to 32 processors, doubling the peak performance of the current 16-processor AViiON AV 9500 system. For even higher levels of performance and availability, the AViiON systems and DG/UX Unix operating system provide DG/UX Clusters, which enables multiple systems to appear as one system to users and system administrators to ease data access, system management and software upgrades. Aimed at the high-end database market the Motorola Inc 88110-based AV 10000 starts at $590,000 for a 16-processor configuration; 32-processor systems start at under $1m. Shipments should begin by the end of the calendar year.
