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Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY BX630 Blade Server Achieves World Record in the MMB3 Benchmark
Munich, March 28, 2006 —Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider,today announced that the PRIMERGY BX630 running on AMD Opteron™ dual socket processors with 2.6 GHz produced a new Microsoft Exchange MAPI Messaging Benchmark (MMB3) world record using Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved world-class Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 scalability results of 12,008 MMB3-users and surpassed the latest results achieved by Hewlett-Packard on a four-socket system.
The MAPI Messaging Benchmark 3 (MMB3) is the benchmarking standard for measuring the performance and scalability of computers running Exchange Server 2003. Its benchmarking workload and methodology serves as the standard for Exchange Server 2003 MAPI server comparison. The MMB3 workload is characteristic of a medium corporate mail environment.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers achieved the world record using a PRIMERGY BX630 server blade equipped with:
· Two AMD Opteron 885 Dual-Core 2.6GHz 1MB L2 processors
· Two 250 GB disks for operating systems and system log files
· 570 × 36 GB disks for Exchange database and log files
The PRIMERGY BX630 achieved the following:
· Average CPU utilization rate of 87.1% during the 12,008 MMB3 test
· Response-time score of 245 milliseconds
The PRIMERGY BX630 is part of the PRIMERGY Blade Ecosystem BX600 which is designed for a broad range of application areas, from web server or terminal server farms with lower performance demands all the way to high performance database or application server configurations. ■