Tech Bytes: Amdahl Builds Biggest Unix Center in Europe

Amdahl Global Solutions has created the largest Unix computer center in Europe at Commerzbank, Germany's third-largest bank.

The Amdahl Corp. division was prime contractor on the project and was responsible for planning the technical infrastructure according to Commerzbank's requirements. Sun Microsystems Inc. served as technical implementation partner.

Seventy-four specialists from Amdahl and Sun spent more than 30 weeks on-site to ensure the project would be completed on time.

The computer center is expected to help Commerzbank securely process its worldwide trading transactions and offer customers tailor-made financial products from a single source.

Commerzbank is consolidating 400 distributed workstations and server systems as part of its integration of a derivatives subsidiary.

Sun Enterprise 10000 servers with 400 processors have already been installed. New applications are to be developed on smaller Sun Solaris systems.

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