User`s guide

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Introducing the Server
Server Features
The main features of Bull NovaScale Servers are:
Intel Itanium Processor Family architecture:
- Modularity, predictable performance and growth
High availability:
- Component redundancy
- Capacity to isolate or replace a faulty component without service disruption
- Global and unified system visibility
- Round-the-clock operation
Scalability:
- Dynamic partitioning
- Power on demand: capacity to dynamically adapt resources and processor frequency
to load requirement
Simultaneous support of multiple environments:
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Linux
High performance computing capabilites:
- Technical and scientific applications:
. High Performance Computing (HPC)
- 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 ...
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 NovaScale Master System Management (NSM) software suite:
- Windows, Linux, and Platform management
- Monitoring, Information, Control, and Event Handling
- Client / Server / Agent architecture
- WEB standard OpenSource solutions