Server vendors are now climbing over themselves to announce support for Intel Corp’s new Pentium Pro processor with 1Mb L2 cache announced this week (CI No 3,228): Unisys Corp’s Computer Systems Group CSG has announced the company’s Aquanta HS/6 six- way server and has produced what it claims to be the world’s fastest Microsoft-based transaction processing results, with performance at 12,026.07 transactions per minute tpm and price/performance at $39.38/tpmC. The Aquanta HS/6 server was configured with six Intel 200MHz Pentium Pro processors with the new 1Mb L2 cache, running Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise Edition. Also pushing results, Hewlett-Packard Co said its new NetServer LX Pro system – powered by four of the new chips – delivered 10,505 tpmC with price/per-formance value of $48.72/tpmC. Hewlett-Packard says that’s the industry’s first tpmC numbers exceeding the 10,000 tpmC barrier on a four-CPU Pentium Pro processor. Data General Corp says it plans to use the new chip in its Non Uniform Memory Access NUMA AV 20000 servers – which are still not benchmarked. Later it will also use the chips in its symmetric multiprocessing SMP servers, which range from the six-processor AV 6600 to cheaper departmental servers. NCR Corp also says it will use the chip – in high-end versions of its WorldMark 4300 enterprise Windows NT server. The server is currently available in a four Pentium Pro processor version. The 1Mb cache Pentium Pro microprocessors will be offered on a new version of the server available in November. The server features NCR’s OctaSCALE architecture which links two Intel four processor boards together. We reported yesterday (CI No 3,229) that Fujitsu ICL Computers Ltd says it will install the processor in its new Teamserver Mi’s; and Axil Computer will use the chip in its Northbridge NX801 8-way server, which should ship in the fourth quarter.
