Open Systems Servers

NEC Express5800/1000 Series Servers

	The third-generation NEC Express5800 series servers amplify the capability of the Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor. Leveraging NEC's supercomputing and mainframe technology, the NEC Express5800/1320Xf and Express5800/1080Rf servers are designed to meet the needs of the high-end server market. NEC Express5800/1000 series offers the performance and reliability that enterprises require for mission critical operations.

Supercomputer Performance
NEC Corporation's experience in technical computing began in early 1980s with the introduction of its SX line of vector supercomputers. In 2002, NEC manufactured the Earth Simulator, which was fastest computer in the Top 500 Supercomputer for more than two years. The low latency and high performance memory and crossbar interface technology of NEC's supercomputers served as a basis for its Express5800/1000 series. NEC recognizes that the demand for Itanium solutions is moving toward the high-end symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server market, where performance and scalability are vital.

Mainframe Reliability
NEC introduced its first mainframe system in 1970s. Its deep heritage in mainframe technology and NEC's expansive research and development efforts in Itanium server technology, NEC has delivered mainframe-class RAS features in its Express5800/1000 series. The server supports modular designs, redundant components, hot plug capabilities, and floating I/O. Illustrating its mainframe technological capabilities, NEC was the first company in the world to demonstrate the dynamic reconfiguration of CPU and memory resources while running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 operating system, code-named "Longhorn."

Industry Leading Dynamic Hardware Partitioning
Express5800/1320fX offers dynamic partitioning. A powerful hardware, software, and firmware combination from Microsoft, Intel, and NEC, dynamic partitioning allows processors, memory, and I/O to be dynamically allocated to a partitioned operating environment (hot add) during peak processing times, or dynamically swapped out (hot replace) in the event of failing components, all without having to reboot the operating system. Dynamic Hardware Partitioning offers high availability and flexible resource management. Working together, these components detect faulting processors or memory early on so they can be replaced, with no interruption to the critical running OS or applications (hot replace), before a system-wide failure. In addition, when a business critical application needs extra processor, memory or I/O performance, Dynamic Hardware Partitioning enables the addition of these resources to an already running hardware partition.



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