Westboro, MA -- Data General announced that it has shipped a 32-processor AViiON AV 20000 ccNUMA server to retailer Sainsbury's, headquartered in the United Kingdom. This represents the first shipment of a 32-processor ccNUMA system based on the Intel architecture. The AV 20000 is Data General's second generation ccNUMA system. In initial offerings, the AV 20000 can support up to 32 200-MHz Pentium Pro processors with optional 1 MB L2 cache, 32 GB of memory, and 100 Terabytes of fault-tolerant CLARiiON fibre channel storage. In clustered configurations, the processor count grows to 128. Future systems will continue to leverage the Intel technology roadmap and the ccNUMA architecture which can scale to hundreds of processors. Sainsbury's is using their two AV 20000 servers for a data warehousing application based on the Oracle database. This multi-terabyte data warehouse stores information about Sainsbury's customers collected at the point of sale through their loyalty card program. Like the already installed 16-processor AV 20000 server, this 32-processor system passed a series of rigorous performance scalability acceptance tests developed by Sainsbury's. These tests showed scalability averaging 92%. The AV 20000 has demonstrated similar scaling in other benchmarks using actual customer applications, outperforming much larger MPP systems. "Sainsbury's is investing in technology that will allow the company get closer to its customers. Data General's AV 20000 ccNUMA server has proven to be a flexible platform, allowing that us to adapt and extend our data warehouse to three terabytes in the near future," said Martin Wright, IS Infrastructure Manager at Sainsbury's. "It has delivered the performance and scalability that we required."
Data General Ships 32-Processor ccNUMA Server
November 7, 1997