Tests carried out by Intel show that Fujitsu’s new PRIMERGY RX300 S7 server rack – released as part of its new PRIMERGY dual-socket X86 server range this week – is one of the world’ most efficient single server nodes.

Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY server range is a modular chassis solution which supports general purpose computing on graphics processing unit cards for faster data throughput.

It contains Intel’s Xeon E5 processors based on its Sandy Bridge architecture released on Tuesday, which Intel said can deliver 80% better performance than its prior generation.

Fujitsu said its PRMERGY RX300 S7 further helps companies deal with heavy workloads by reducing the strain on data center cooling and power, allowing more than 5,000 ssj_ops/watt based on the SECpower_ssj2008 benchmark, an industry standard that evaluates the power and performance of volume server class and multi-node class computers.

Fujitsu SVP of product development Jens-Peter Seick said Intel said this offers a 51% improvement on figures achieved by the previous HP ProLiant DL360 generation.

“The maximum expandability, outstanding performance and energy-efficiency credentials of the Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S7 make it the single-node system to beat,” Seick said.

 He said the servers allow for two thirds more workload to be run on the current power budget, helping overcome some of the biggest challenges for data centers today – rising power and cooling costs associated with energy and increasing data demands.

Fujitsu said the new models released as part of PRIMERGY offer 100% memory capacity and space for an additional 33% hard disks.

They also come with the Fujitsu ServerView virtual IO Manager which can provide network agnostic virtualization, on-the-fly roaming and recovery of virtual server profiles.