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Unisys abandons DIY chips for Intel

by on26 May 2015


No more proprietary CMOS chips

Unisys has unveiled a new range of all-Intel servers, and walked away from its own proprietary CMOS chips.

Unisys had been advertising that it wanted to get rid of its ClearPath Dorado 8380 and 8390 systems for ages. It wanted to replace them with high-end Xeons into a 42U chassis and run OS 2200, Unisys' bundle of OS and apps.

However it does end more than a decade's worth of R&D proprietary complementary metal oxide semiconductor processor technology.

The Register has had a look at what Unisys is moving to and it does look interesting.

The Processor Memory Module (PMM) runs OS 2200, while the I/O Storage Module takes care of storage and in so doing takes some load off the PMM. Enterprise Partitionable Platforms (EPPs) are where the guest OSes (Windows or Linux) get to run, which they should do pretty happily seeing as each of these hardware modules packs a pair of Xeon E5-2667 v3 CPUs with eight cores and 3.2 GHz on the clock.

As you would expect the new Intel gear can run anything that the previous generations of ClearPath servers could do.
This year's models can also be clustered alongside older all-Intel or mixed Intel-and-Unisys-CMOS kit from Unisys.

Apparently the old gear is up for sale and Unisys will probably give a the buyer a hand running its old apps.

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