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Marco SanzogniDirettore Business Unit Bull Technologies,

Bull Italia

I server NovaScale: innovazione e affidabilità

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IT challenges of today

Costoptimization

Low cost business modelsSimplify management

Strategicalignment

Efficient support of business processGuarantee scalability and flexibility

Riskmanagement

Guarantee operational availabilitySecure data and process integrity

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Software Infrastructure

Software, hardware, data

are fully distributed

Time-share Monolithic Applications

ModularComputing

Client Server

Server app& cluster

Multi-layer SOAWeb

Services

Hardware Infrastructure

J2EE ou .NET

The IT infrastructure is changing

Bull NovaScale® : a new generation of modular enterprise servers based on standard building blocks

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Current IDC market forecast (Western Europe) by CPUOnly growth markets: IA-32 and EPIC

Customer Revenue ($M) CAGR%CPU Type 2003 share 2004 share 2005 share 2006 share 2007 share 2008 share 03-08CISC $2 220 15,7% $2 196 14,4% $2 084 13,2% $1 920 12,0% $1 618 10,0% $1 392 8,4% -8,9%EPIC $50 0,4% $236 1,5% $525 3,3% $818 5,1% $1 133 7,0% $1 500 9,0% 97,7%RISC $6 549 46,3% $6 452 42,2% $6 956 44,0% $6 979 43,6% $6 643 41,0% $6 199 37,3% -1,1%x86 $5 318 37,6% $6 419 41,9% $6 261 39,6% $6 294 39,3% $6 796 42,0% $7 510 45,2% 7,1%Total $14 137 100,0% $15 303 100,0% $15 826 100,0% $16 011 100,0% $16 189 100,0% $16 601 100,0% 3,3%Source: IDC, Octobre 2004

Major trends

Ramp-up of 64-bit architecture (EPIC – Itanium2)

Blade serversMarket expected to grow 60% Use in physical consolidation, web servers, application servers, Citrix farms

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Bull launched the FAME program late 1997 to develop Large scaleenterprise servers buil on IPF and standard technologies

Early access to Intel® Itanium® processors specifications Common architecture reviews of Bull chipset influenced by Intel®E8870™ chipset designCreation of two Bull Application Solution Centers (Paris/Windows Server 2003 and Grenoble/Linux & Open Source) supporting the same software editor approach

Bull, one of the first to have introduced Windows 2000 Datacenter in Europe, has access to Windows Server 2003 source codeCommon review of the Bull server architectureCollaboration for future versions of Windows (partitioning, NUMA, management)

NovaScale: a strategic choice based on keypartnerships

®®

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A new generation of computers based on advancedenterprise processors from Intel

NovaScale: the engine for the Open ModelFour dimensions in innovation

Using market-standard, low-cost building blocksItanium 2 processor, Intel chipsets, standard disks and I/O

Based on an advanced architecture developed by Bullproviding strong multi-processor performance (including a Bull-designed complex VLSI)and mainframe-inspired management

Open, low-cost software propositionProviding the performance, reliability and security ofmainframe servers

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A new generation of mainframe-class servers based on a modular and standard architecture

Evolution capabilitiesManageabilityPartitioningScalability (SMP & Cluster)

RAS (Mainframe class)FlexibilityPrice/performanceTCO

NovaScale2-4-way server



NovaScale4-32 way server

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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A unique architecture to build SMP servers with shared memory, low memory latency and well balanced throughput

FSSFAME Scalability Switch

FAME: the powerful architectureof large NovaScale servers

Flexible Architecture for Multiple EnvironmentsMainframe disciplines and reliability: no single point of failureFlexible and scalable architecture

Multi-Operating SystemsPhysical Partitioning4- to 32-way servers

Low TCO : standard building blocksBuilt-in management

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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The FAME Scalability Switch to buildSMP servers

A highly integrated piece of silicon designed by Bull

Aggregates the Quad Brick Blocks and the I/O boxes60 Million transistors, 0.18µ Cu process

The core of a large multi-processor machine

Insures global memory and cache coherenceOptimizes coherence traffic Synchronizes, orchestrates, and routesall multiprocessor communicationsOptimizes the NUMA factor

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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A full scalable architecture to accompany business growth

No limit to the evolutionTotal flexibilityNo more frontiers between clusters & SMP

8 way 32 way N x 32 way

Standard-based servers combined to create large multi-processors systems

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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NovaScale and Microsoftlead benchmark results

# Vendor Server OS DB SD SAPS16 Bull Bull NovaScale 5160 Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2000 2230 1140016 HP HP Integrity Superdome Windows Server 2003 Oracle 9i 2160 108708 Bull Bull NovaScale 5080 Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2000 1300 65808 HP HP Integrity rx7620 Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2000 1240 62508 IBM IBM xSeries 455 Windows Server 2003 DB2 UDB 8.1 1200 6070

Number one for Windows/SAP performance

Number one for 8-way Windows performanceNovaScale 5080 with Windows and SQL Server

175,366 tpmC at 4.53 $/tpm

November 1st, 2004

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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NovaScale: the power of the best mainframes with industry-standard and low cost

16 nodesNovaScale 5000

Management& IO

NovaScale 4000

StorageFDA 2300

June 2004: Ranked in the Top500 list of most fast super computersNov. 2004: World's highest sustained NAS Performance

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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OS Control

Inventory

Monitoring

Role-based

management

Event Handling

Bull NovaScale Master makes management easy

Integrated, distributed and securemulti-technology and multi-service

A correlated and completeview of all critical monitoring parameters

Open, mainframe-

class servers

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Brings to customers the expertise of MCSE certified specialists to design and deploy Microsoft-based solutions and infrastructuresEnterprise class-application deployment skills in e-infrastructure, data bases, datawarehousing, ERP/SCM

Performance optimizationSizingBenchmarking, High Availability solution supportCertified solutions in line with the software vendorsConsulting

Bull Microsoft Competence Centers:the best infrastructure expertise in Europe

Dedicated certified Windows experts of Itanium® 2-based mainstream commercial solutions

CompetenceCenters

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CompetenceCenters

A complete integration and support services offer for datacenter solutions

SQL Serverand Business Intelligence

Migration and consolidation

Architecture designand consultingProject managementIntegration and developmentSupport ServicesOutsourcingTraining and certification

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ApplicationServers

Major applications availableon Windows and Intel Itanium 2

Database BusinessIntelligence

ERP HPC

NovaScale

Storage

Operations

Qualifiedsolutions

sets

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NovaScale® AttitudeISVs and Customers benefit from the NovaScale advantages

Mainframe-class platform for enterprise applications TCO-optimized platformNovaScale provides the power necessary to new functionalities

A program based on an industrial process Deployment of joint business programsSupport of ISVs’ validation on NovaScaleExtension of the portfolio of applications validated on NovaScale

Technical Competence Centers to help ISV's and CustomersLes Clayes: NovaScale/Microsoft environments Echirolles: NovaScale + HPC ColognePregnana

Proven response to today IT challenges

Strategic alignment

Costs optimization

Risk management

Standard components: scalability, independenceInteroperabilityMulti-vendor purchase capabilitiesIndependent upgrade cycles (HW, OS, SW)

Standard components lower the costs Low cost business modelsOptimized management and training costs

Redundancy platform, high-availabilityMainframe-class servers Long-term technology, long-term and predictable roadmap

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