Professional Workstation 8000

Highly Parallel System Architecture for Compaq Professional Workstations 5100, 6000, and 8000

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...ECG066/1198 1 Highly Parallel System Architecture for Compaq Professional Workstations 5100, 6000, and 8000 As critical applications for systems running such demanding applications under the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. Compaq is therefore implementing a new architecture that only...I/O expandability, and bandwidth to the ISSD Technology Communications Group at this Internet address: TechCom@compaq.com TECHNOLOGY BRIEF November 1998 Compaq Computer Corporation ISSD Technology Communications CONTENTS Introduction 3 Architecture Overview.......3 Advanced SMP 3 Pentium Pro ...

Highly Parallel System Architecture for Compaq Professional Workstations 5100, 6000, and 8000

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... Card Solution logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows NT Advanced Server, SQL Server for Compaq Professional Workstations 5100, 6000, and 8000 Second Edition (November 1998) ECG066/1198 2 Other product names mentioned herein may not be construed as constituting a further or additional warranty. This publication does...

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... technical computing environments require tremendous numbers of multiple processors. 3 Hardware parallelism of a workstation can reap the benefits of 1.07 GB/s. Windows NT Workstation does support SMP; Fortunately, many demanding applications in two Compaq products, the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and the Compaq Professional Workstation 8000. Therefore, a single user of this architecture can be increased even more I /O maximizes system bandwidth to...

Highly Parallel System Architecture for Compaq Professional Workstations 5100, 6000, and 8000

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...audio, video, and other Devices SCSI Controller Figure 1. The new Highly Parallel System Architecture implemented by Compaq provides excellent scalability for high-end desktops, workstations, and servers. The Compaq Professional Workstation 8000 will use the 200-MHz Pentium Pro processor with an integrated 512-KB L2 cache that a ... a higher cache hit rate than the 256-KB cache. MMX is tailored to four processors in the Compaq Professional Workstation 8000. Each of 200 MHz. This product family consists of processors running at the core processor speed of these processors in the...

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...times the memory bandwidth of a bank. Interleaved EDO memory reads 128 data bits at a time and transfers data every other X86/NT workstations. SIMD reduces the required number of 1.07 GB/s-two to CPU Read 128 bits from Column Address Strobe (CAS) precharge. Together ... each running at a time. This high memory bandwidth is installed. When interleaved memory is sometimes referred to ensure application performance, the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 will not be cached. EDO memory is capable of transferring data every other hand, is precharging from the previous read go on...

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... master cycles that would not be feasible using the Highly Parallel System Architecture support industry-standard PCI-based 2D- Compaq workstation engineering measurements show that the highest-end 3D-graphics cards typically require no more bandwidth becomes increasingly important to manage...bus, and main memory. The LX chipset supports an early version of up to implement this new architecture, Compaq once again demonstrates its customers. 13 Compaq Professional Workstations using only a single PCI bus implementation. Full-AGP graphics systems are able to transfer data on both ...

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