NEC Launches Express5800 Scalable HA Server

By DE Editors

NEC Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) announced the worldwide sales launch of its business-oriented Express5800 Scalable HA Server,  which is equipped with the 6-core Intel Xeon 7400-series processor.

The 4U Box (drive housing) can be equipped with a 24-core/4 processor Express5800/A1040 entry module or the scalable Express5800/A1160 module, with a capacity of 96-core/16 processors, which offers mainframe-class reliability and high scalability to enable large-scale server consolidation.

Also, NEC provides Linux Service Set MC as the high availability Linux platform for the new product.

The company says the Xpress5800 Scalable HA Server has a building block structure that provides server scalability and reliability with multi-core Intel Xeon 7400-series processors, high-speed inter-box interconnect, plus each box is equipped with 32 base memory slots, and more.

Its mainframe-class reliability and availability is through duplicating major components such as memory, HDD, and power modules. Also supports multi-bit error detection/re-transmission functions for high-speed interfaces that minimize system crashes and the impact of such failures.

Designed for mission-critical systems and server consolidation is for large-scale and high-speed systems and virtualization. The company says release of the server represents the first result of hardware developed under a cooperative agreement reached in October 2005 between UNISYS Corporation and NEC.

New products will be available in turn starting December, throughout North American, Asian, and European markets.

For details, contact NEC Corporation.

For recent DE coverage, read “Appro & NEC Partner to Strengthen HPC Market,” (Sept. 2008).

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.