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Access Time

In telecommunications, the delay between the time a request is made on a system and the time the system grants the request. As technology advances, access time is generally reduced.
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This is because traditional performance-improvement approaches, such as increasing clock speed, decreasing memory access times, and clever scheduling of instructions are no longer yielding major improvements.
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The new servers offer support for up to 64Gb of main memory and 48Tb of connected storage and include a fibre channel subsystem and dynamic partitioning capabilities as well as enhanced system throughput and reduced local and remote memory access times.
-SEQUENT REVEALS NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE SERVERS
The new servers offer support for up to 64Gb of main memory and 48Tb of connected storage and include a fibre channel subsystem and dynamic partitioning capabilities as well as enhanced system throughput and reduced local and remote memory access times. In addition, Sequent has teamed with EMC to provide a fibre channel direct connect capability to EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise Storage Systems.
-SEQUENT REVEALS NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE SERVERS
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