Unisys Corp, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, will have 166MHz P6 versions of its U6000/500 symmetric multiprocessing servers, the Pentium Pro Series, ready in the first quarter of 1996, said Andy Dymoke, product marketing manager for server systems. The Model 50 currently supports up to five 100MHz or 133MHz Pentiums; the Model 80 supports eight 150MHz processors or, as expected, up to 10 120MHz Pentiums. With 10 120MHz processors, the Model 80 is priced from $35,000 to $65,000, depending on system configuration. It will support 4Gb to 8Gb RAM by the beginning of next year, compared with 2Gb now. Unisys now supports version 2.0 of Tivoli System Inc’s Tivoli Management Environment on its System V.4/MP and is bundling the Unisys Ready Reserve disk mirroring facility which was formerly an add-on option. Furthermore, the company has slashed prices of its 90MHz and 100MHz U6000/500 Model 50 boxes by up to 27%. They now start from $25,000 to $30,000 or $75,000 to $80,000 fully-configured. Model 80s will cost from $50,000 to $65,000 depending on configuration. Unisys also revealed that its new four-node UClusters for SMP 5400 and the U6000/500 high-performance servers running System V.4/MP will be available late in the fourth quarter for $4,000 to $25,000, depending on server and configuration. UClusters can detect failures in application software, storage controllers or subsystems and local area network adaptors. UClusters are based on VxReliant clusters software from Veritas Software Corp, which includes scripting language for user configuration of fault detection and failover procedures.
