User`s guide
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Introducing NovaScale 5080/5160 Servers
The main features of Bull NovaScale Servers are:
Intel Itanium Processor Family architecture:
– Modularity, predictable performance and growth.
Simultaneous support of multiple environments:
– Microsoft Windows Server,
– Linux.
High performance computing capabilites:
– Business Intelligence:
. Datawarehousing.
. Datamining.
– Large enterprise applications:
. ERP.
. CRM.
. SCM, ...
– Large database applications for Internet transactions.
– Large business sector applications:
. Online billing.
. Online reservations.
. Online banking.
High availability:
– Component redundancy.
– Capacity to isolate or replace a faulty components without service disruption.
– Global and unified system visibility.
– Round–the–clock operation.
Scalability:
– Dynamic partitioning.
– Capacity to dynamically adapt resources to load requirement.
Built–in Platform Administration and Maintenance (PAM) software suite:
– Proactive administration.
– Optimization of resources.
– Automatic generation of corrective actions and calls to support centers.
– Dynamic configuration.
Bull System Management (BSM) software suite:
– Windows, Linux, and Platform management.
– Monitoring, Information, Control, and Event Handling.
– Client / Server / Agent architecture.
– WEB standard OpenSource solutions.