Specifications

Escala Tower PL & S, E, T System Hardware
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2. Escala Tower PL, S, E and T Systems
The Escala E and T Series, the world's first PowerPC-based symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
systems, are designed with industry leading price/performance and evolution capabilities.
The Escala systems run AIX, the most scalable and robust UNIX operating system for commercial
environments. In addition, these systems come with several standard I/O interfaces plus expansion
slots for memory and I/O adapters. A wide variety of optional features, including communications,
graphics, and storage products are available to provide highly configurable, robust systems.
The architecture inside the Escala Tower PL, E and T systems extends system life and enhances
performance and efficiency. These new, expandable servers are easy to configure and satisfy users'
unique computing requirements.
All Escala systems are built for tomorrow, with investment protection through easy, in-field upgrades:
users can either replace existing processors with more powerful processors, or simply increase the
number of processors in the system. The flexibility, power and configurability, inherent to Escala, give
users a variety of application servers to choose from. These are designed with Bull's Distributed
Computing Model and other middleware solutions.
The robustness of the AIX operating system helps make the Escala a robust and reliable server.
Compliant with major industry standards, AIX is the world's leading commercial UNIX system with a
vast portfolio of applications (over 14,000) able to run on Escala Series systems. The latest version of
AIX provides 32/64-bit environments and offers advanced Internet services and Java support, B1
security option and enhanced Reliability, Availability and Serviceability features.
2.1. Servers Series
2.1.1. Escala S Series Servers
The Escala S is an entry-level AIX system delivering exceptional power for its class, offering
outstanding performance and reliability. Its rugged, compact design and the robustness of its AIX
operating system ensure trouble-free operation.
The pre-installed system monitoring tool, WatchWare, gives complete details about the system and the
network status through a Web interface. For even more security, a modem available on the system
ensures reboot capability and allows Bull to check and perform maintenance operations on the system
without on-site intervention.
Configurable as either desktop or minitower and with a wide range of options available (choice of
processor speed, memory and internal disks expansion capacities, communication features, storage
devices), the Escala S responds to a wide variety of needs. Through adding to or upgrading the system,
investment costs can be minimized.