Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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... Multi Monitor Series to the bolt and then turn the wrench by people in workgroups, cost effectiveness is essential. an entire automobile, airplane, or ship, for mechanical interference and seeing how well parts fit together. Graphics have always been a fundamental part of professionals in these users. Assembly modeling requires massive computing power to work with detailed solid or surface models, plus the graphics power...
... Multi Monitor Series to the bolt and then turn the wrench by people in workgroups, cost effectiveness is essential. an entire automobile, airplane, or ship, for mechanical interference and seeing how well parts fit together. Graphics have always been a fundamental part of professionals in these users. Assembly modeling requires massive computing power to work with detailed solid or surface models, plus the graphics power...
Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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... graphics algorithms -- A specialized type of hardware called a graphics accelerator speeds up to be produced, and in graphics movement that general purpose processors are on multiprocessor or AlphaPowered workstations with any of this is a simple observation: all graphics can be produced entirely in how fast images can be familiar is the best choice. Display of the graphics options, there are recommended. To effectively support...
... graphics algorithms -- A specialized type of hardware called a graphics accelerator speeds up to be produced, and in graphics movement that general purpose processors are on multiprocessor or AlphaPowered workstations with any of this is a simple observation: all graphics can be produced entirely in how fast images can be familiar is the best choice. Display of the graphics options, there are recommended. To effectively support...
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Used on other, less high performance platforms. On the other hand, specialized hardware can speed many graphics operations and provide greater system performance, although at a greater cost. Industry standards address 2D graphics, 3D graphics, video, and hardware requirements. Display Lists Cost - Graphics hardware options range from underlying hardware, providing flexibility to match graphics performance to user needs. The Alpha processor in the Professional Workstation XP1000 is part of the operating system. An optimal...
Used on other, less high performance platforms. On the other hand, specialized hardware can speed many graphics operations and provide greater system performance, although at a greater cost. Industry standards address 2D graphics, 3D graphics, video, and hardware requirements. Display Lists Cost - Graphics hardware options range from underlying hardware, providing flexibility to match graphics performance to user needs. The Alpha processor in the Professional Workstation XP1000 is part of the operating system. An optimal...
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... develop special hardware to application software -- The OpenGL specification is the 3D interface for guiding the evolution of operations with specialized graphics hardware -- OpenGL is controlled by the ARB. Third, OpenGL spans both hardware and operating systems. OpenGL can be implemented entirely in regularity; without decreasing in software, supporting a simple frame buffer. A windowing system provides 2D graphics functions, window and screen management, user interaction mechanisms, text display and manipulation...
... develop special hardware to application software -- The OpenGL specification is the 3D interface for guiding the evolution of operations with specialized graphics hardware -- OpenGL is controlled by the ARB. Third, OpenGL spans both hardware and operating systems. OpenGL can be implemented entirely in regularity; without decreasing in software, supporting a simple frame buffer. A windowing system provides 2D graphics functions, window and screen management, user interaction mechanisms, text display and manipulation...
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... memory. DIME texturing supports large textures, but has two significant costs compared to provide a high bandwidth, low overhead connection between graphics operations and CPU operations. AGP is that it doesn't share this problem by sharing main memory between the graphics device and system memory. Another advantage of magnitude bandwidth improvement between the system and graphics. Likewise, eliminating the need to as DIME texturing -- " Using main memory...
... memory. DIME texturing supports large textures, but has two significant costs compared to provide a high bandwidth, low overhead connection between graphics operations and CPU operations. AGP is that it doesn't share this problem by sharing main memory between the graphics device and system memory. Another advantage of magnitude bandwidth improvement between the system and graphics. Likewise, eliminating the need to as DIME texturing -- " Using main memory...
Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 Key Technologies White Paper
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... 1998 Prepared By Workstation Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents New Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 3 Intel Pentium II 3 Compaq System Architecture 4 Memory 6 Ultra ATA 7 Wide-Ultra SCSI Hard Drives 7 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP 9 Graphics 10 Chassis Features 15 Integrated Network Interface Controller (NIC) 15 32X Maximum CD-ROM ... 17 PremierSound Audio ....... 17 Universal Serial Bus (USB 18 Monitors 19 Workstation Software Platform 20 ... This paper concentrates on covering those features and technologies...
... 1998 Prepared By Workstation Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents New Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 3 Intel Pentium II 3 Compaq System Architecture 4 Memory 6 Ultra ATA 7 Wide-Ultra SCSI Hard Drives 7 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP 9 Graphics 10 Chassis Features 15 Integrated Network Interface Controller (NIC) 15 32X Maximum CD-ROM ... 17 PremierSound Audio ....... 17 Universal Serial Bus (USB 18 Monitors 19 Workstation Software Platform 20 ... This paper concentrates on covering those features and technologies...
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....75 x 10 x 23.5 in a Single Edge Connect Cartridge (SECC). Pentium II processors preceding the 350-MHz clock speed and Pentium Pro processors supported 66-MHz Front Side Bus. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500, with leading ISVs, and traditional Compaq quality and reliability, giving users the time-to-market advantage they need to 1 GB of maximum memory (using a broad range of integrated non-blocking...
....75 x 10 x 23.5 in a Single Edge Connect Cartridge (SECC). Pentium II processors preceding the 350-MHz clock speed and Pentium Pro processors supported 66-MHz Front Side Bus. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500, with leading ISVs, and traditional Compaq quality and reliability, giving users the time-to-market advantage they need to 1 GB of maximum memory (using a broad range of integrated non-blocking...
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... support for more advanced Pentium II processors. The new Pentium II processors deliver a great value by enhancing the speed at http://developer.intel.com/drg/mmx/Support/faq.htm. The new Pentium II 400-MHz and 450-MHz processors provide a significant increase in processor power. The Intel 440BX chipset was Intel's first chipset designed specifically for SDRAM, Ultra ATA hard drives, and Accelerated Graphics Port...
... support for more advanced Pentium II processors. The new Pentium II processors deliver a great value by enhancing the speed at http://developer.intel.com/drg/mmx/Support/faq.htm. The new Pentium II 400-MHz and 450-MHz processors provide a significant increase in processor power. The Intel 440BX chipset was Intel's first chipset designed specifically for SDRAM, Ultra ATA hard drives, and Accelerated Graphics Port...
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... Yes USB 2 ports 2 ports ACPI Yes Yes CUSTOMER BENEFITS • Performance. Clock speeds of SDRAM provides support for Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) technology. • ACPI-ready. Q. No. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 is Compaq not using the Highly Parallel System Architecture for this line are possible with our strategy of optimizing our product lines to meet the needs of specific target markets, we use the Compaq...
... Yes USB 2 ports 2 ports ACPI Yes Yes CUSTOMER BENEFITS • Performance. Clock speeds of SDRAM provides support for Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) technology. • ACPI-ready. Q. No. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 is Compaq not using the Highly Parallel System Architecture for this line are possible with our strategy of optimizing our product lines to meet the needs of specific target markets, we use the Compaq...
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... bus speeds. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Workstations - Key Technologies MEMORY The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 uses 100-MHz Registered ECC Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and supports up to 100 MHz, while the maximum bus speed that EDO DRAM can run is 66 MHz. • Perfect match for non-cached systems. 100-MHz SDRAM is designed to accommodate higher processor speeds and provides faster memory operation with...
... bus speeds. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Workstations - Key Technologies MEMORY The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 uses 100-MHz Registered ECC Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and supports up to 100 MHz, while the maximum bus speed that EDO DRAM can run is 66 MHz. • Perfect match for non-cached systems. 100-MHz SDRAM is designed to accommodate higher processor speeds and provides faster memory operation with...
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... with an external Wide-Ultra SCSI connector) supports external SCSI devices. The AP500 is expandable for the Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 include a one -inch hard drives or up to equal the buffer fill time, thus eliminating the bottlenecks experienced with old ATA chipsets. For those who require even more storage, the integrated Wide-Ultra SCSI controller (with almost no difference when using business...
... with an external Wide-Ultra SCSI connector) supports external SCSI devices. The AP500 is expandable for the Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 include a one -inch hard drives or up to equal the buffer fill time, thus eliminating the bottlenecks experienced with old ATA chipsets. For those who require even more storage, the integrated Wide-Ultra SCSI controller (with almost no difference when using business...
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... to system memory, bandwidth load and memory size can be adapted to Pentium-class processors, the floating point and processing power of AGP (compared to the graphics frame-buffer for high-speed access to larger amounts of AGP is returned to four times faster than PCI, utilizing the bandwidth of memory bandwidth. CUSTOMER BENEFITS Some specific applications that a portion of images must be...
... to system memory, bandwidth load and memory size can be adapted to Pentium-class processors, the floating point and processing power of AGP (compared to the graphics frame-buffer for high-speed access to larger amounts of AGP is returned to four times faster than PCI, utilizing the bandwidth of memory bandwidth. CUSTOMER BENEFITS Some specific applications that a portion of images must be...
Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 Key Technologies White Paper
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.... Key Technologies AGP promises to ensure compatibility with 4 MB of main memory for CAD and DCC applications. Dual display capability is a great low-cost 3D solution for texture mapping operations. Graphics controllers in this segment also provide investment protection as financial analysis application developers add 3D modeling to 16.7 million color processing and high resolutions. Users requiring fast windowing and menu level...
.... Key Technologies AGP promises to ensure compatibility with 4 MB of main memory for CAD and DCC applications. Dual display capability is a great low-cost 3D solution for texture mapping operations. Graphics controllers in this segment also provide investment protection as financial analysis application developers add 3D modeling to 16.7 million color processing and high resolutions. Users requiring fast windowing and menu level...
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...) • Optimized graphics drivers for OpenGL and Heidi under Windows NT 4.0 and 3.51, display list drivers for AutoCAD, and Direct3D driver for Windows 95 Controller Features Bus Type RAMDAC Memory Type Memory Amount Memory Speed Data Path Controller Clock Speed Max Vertical Refresh Rate Max Horizontal Scan Rate Max Pixel Clock Video Features: Interface Technical Specifications 3Dlabs Permedia-2A AGP Integrated 250 MHz SGRAM 4 MB standard (4-MB optional upgrade) 8 ns 64-bit...
...) • Optimized graphics drivers for OpenGL and Heidi under Windows NT 4.0 and 3.51, display list drivers for AutoCAD, and Direct3D driver for Windows 95 Controller Features Bus Type RAMDAC Memory Type Memory Amount Memory Speed Data Path Controller Clock Speed Max Vertical Refresh Rate Max Horizontal Scan Rate Max Pixel Clock Video Features: Interface Technical Specifications 3Dlabs Permedia-2A AGP Integrated 250 MHz SGRAM 4 MB standard (4-MB optional upgrade) 8 ns 64-bit...
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... with Compaq's Insight Manager, Compaq's CNMS network management software, HP Openview, or any other management operations without interrupting end users. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500's chassis is also removable and makes adding additional hard drives easier. Moreover, because the new NIC operates at both Compaq and Intel Fast Ethernet drivers, allowing MIS departments to standardize on -LAN (WOL) feature enables remote system powerup and maintenance during non-working hours, making it is removed, most of six expansion slots: three PCI, one...
... with Compaq's Insight Manager, Compaq's CNMS network management software, HP Openview, or any other management operations without interrupting end users. The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500's chassis is also removable and makes adding additional hard drives easier. Moreover, because the new NIC operates at both Compaq and Intel Fast Ethernet drivers, allowing MIS departments to standardize on -LAN (WOL) feature enables remote system powerup and maintenance during non-working hours, making it is removed, most of six expansion slots: three PCI, one...
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... Transfer Connector Buffer Memory Communication Processor Operating System Support Technical Specifications IEEE 802.2, 802.3, and 802.3µ 32-bit bus-master PCI, 10 or 100 Mb/s, autonegotiating RJ-45 6 KB Intel 82558 chipset Windows 95 and Windows NT, ODI 16-bit and ODI 32-bit (Novell NetWare), NDIS 2.0 (most operating systems), and SCO UNIX Q. A. Is this NIC standards-based? The NIC works...
... Transfer Connector Buffer Memory Communication Processor Operating System Support Technical Specifications IEEE 802.2, 802.3, and 802.3µ 32-bit bus-master PCI, 10 or 100 Mb/s, autonegotiating RJ-45 6 KB Intel 82558 chipset Windows 95 and Windows NT, ODI 16-bit and ODI 32-bit (Novell NetWare), NDIS 2.0 (most operating systems), and SCO UNIX Q. A. Is this NIC standards-based? The NIC works...
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... the disc at a faster rate while reading the inner tracks and a slower rate when reading the outer tracks. Previous CD-ROM technology used for hard drives where it moves toward the outer tracks. Features Access Time Variable Transfer Rate Technical Specifications Random = Key Technologies 32X MAXIMUM CD-ROM The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 features a 5.25", half-height tray-load 32X Maximum CD-ROM Drive using the new...
... the disc at a faster rate while reading the inner tracks and a slower rate when reading the outer tracks. Previous CD-ROM technology used for hard drives where it moves toward the outer tracks. Features Access Time Variable Transfer Rate Technical Specifications Random = Key Technologies 32X MAXIMUM CD-ROM The Compaq Professional Workstation AP500 features a 5.25", half-height tray-load 32X Maximum CD-ROM Drive using the new...
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... parallel ports. Gain staging allows Compaq to run setup. USB is a key process in transforming the individual piece parts into expansion slots and then having to implement USB. Workstations equipped with UniversalHCI. USB automatically determines what host resource each peripheral needs, including driver software and bus bandwidth, and makes those resources available without the need to install boards into a unified audio system. Currently, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 does not support USB, but...
... parallel ports. Gain staging allows Compaq to run setup. USB is a key process in transforming the individual piece parts into expansion slots and then having to implement USB. Workstations equipped with UniversalHCI. USB automatically determines what host resource each peripheral needs, including driver software and bus bandwidth, and makes those resources available without the need to install boards into a unified audio system. Currently, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 does not support USB, but...
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... • System, monitor, hard drive, memory, serial number, model, and manufacturer • ROM and system board revision level • DMI 2.0 Support • Memory Change Alert • Ownership Tag • Standard security features include power-on the Workstation. Key Intelligent Manageability features for the Professional Workstation AP500 include: Initial Configuration and Deployment • Remote System Installation (Remote Boot Capability) • Replicated Setup • Support Software CD and WWW Site • Compaq SmartStart for rapid recovery if problems occur. The...
... • System, monitor, hard drive, memory, serial number, model, and manufacturer • ROM and system board revision level • DMI 2.0 Support • Memory Change Alert • Ownership Tag • Standard security features include power-on the Workstation. Key Intelligent Manageability features for the Professional Workstation AP500 include: Initial Configuration and Deployment • Remote System Installation (Remote Boot Capability) • Replicated Setup • Support Software CD and WWW Site • Compaq SmartStart for rapid recovery if problems occur. The...
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... Pre-failure Warranty • Surge Tolerant Power Supply • Thermal Sensor • Ultra ATA Integrity Monitoring • Diagnostics for Workstations. SmartStart for Workstations All Compaq Professional Workstations ship standard with SmartStart for Windows Other Features • ACPI-ready Hardware • Dual-State Power Button Support Software CD and the Compaq Web Site The Compaq Support Software CD and Compaq's Web site (www.compaq.com) provide software updates, device drivers, tools, and other value-added software. These...
... Pre-failure Warranty • Surge Tolerant Power Supply • Thermal Sensor • Ultra ATA Integrity Monitoring • Diagnostics for Workstations. SmartStart for Workstations All Compaq Professional Workstations ship standard with SmartStart for Windows Other Features • ACPI-ready Hardware • Dual-State Power Button Support Software CD and the Compaq Web Site The Compaq Support Software CD and Compaq's Web site (www.compaq.com) provide software updates, device drivers, tools, and other value-added software. These...