Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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... as a single unit -- Support for various types of these needs. Users of visual simulation and scientific visualization. Compaq offers a variety of professionals in these users needs. Other applications are often technical, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) or... analysis applications. The combination of a Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000 with PowerStorm 300 graphics or Compaq Professional Workstation SP700 with detailed solid or surface models, plus the graphics power to meet the needs of...
... as a single unit -- Support for various types of these needs. Users of visual simulation and scientific visualization. Compaq offers a variety of professionals in these users needs. Other applications are often technical, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) or... analysis applications. The combination of a Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000 with PowerStorm 300 graphics or Compaq Professional Workstation SP700 with detailed solid or surface models, plus the graphics power to meet the needs of...
Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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...the graphics options, there are major differences in how fast images can be produced by on a more challenging for display. Compaq offers a family of graphics accelerators, providing similar graphics features and functions at the total system approach to understand the interaction... of underground structures. Display of this amount of data is critical to enable researchers to application demands. On Intel based Compaq Professional Workstations where shaded image performance is critical, the geometry accelerated PowerStorm 600 is the performance winner. To effectively support the ...
...the graphics options, there are major differences in how fast images can be produced by on a more challenging for display. Compaq offers a family of graphics accelerators, providing similar graphics features and functions at the total system approach to understand the interaction... of underground structures. Display of this amount of data is critical to enable researchers to application demands. On Intel based Compaq Professional Workstations where shaded image performance is critical, the geometry accelerated PowerStorm 600 is the performance winner. To effectively support the ...
Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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..., software, computer systems, user requirements, market demands, and the interactions between performance and cost for high end graphics. Compaq's graphics provide support for both graphics rendering and geometry and lighting calculations. Industry standards address 2D graphics, 3D graphics, ... Refraction... - Industry Standard Interfaces By using software implementations on Windows NT systems. 3D graphics are often implemented in the Professional Workstation XP1000 is part of graphics hardware platforms, but to not only run on other, less high performance platforms. On...
..., software, computer systems, user requirements, market demands, and the interactions between performance and cost for high end graphics. Compaq's graphics provide support for both graphics rendering and geometry and lighting calculations. Industry standards address 2D graphics, 3D graphics, ... Refraction... - Industry Standard Interfaces By using software implementations on Windows NT systems. 3D graphics are often implemented in the Professional Workstation XP1000 is part of graphics hardware platforms, but to not only run on other, less high performance platforms. On...
Graphics: The Workstation Difference
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... design and implementation of the applications that high performance graphics enables. Further information on graphics for Compaq Professional Workstations is available on Compaq's Web site: http://www.compaq/products/workstations Graphics related information available from the Web site includes: Compaq Professional Workstations Graphics Product Positioning, document 0053-0499-A Professional3D: a New Graphics Classification, document 0054-0499-A Graphics...
... design and implementation of the applications that high performance graphics enables. Further information on graphics for Compaq Professional Workstations is available on Compaq's Web site: http://www.compaq/products/workstations Graphics related information available from the Web site includes: Compaq Professional Workstations Graphics Product Positioning, document 0053-0499-A Professional3D: a New Graphics Classification, document 0054-0499-A Graphics...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...15 Intelligent Manageability ........16 System Software Manager......17 Unattended Network Installation Toolkit (UNIT 17 Insight Manager Lite Console Client 17 ... 11BX-1199A/WWEN Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of these features. This paper concentrates on covering those... that have unique customer benefits. The objective is to provide the technical information and benefits of the Key Technologies incorporated into the new Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 models.
...15 Intelligent Manageability ........16 System Software Manager......17 Unattended Network Installation Toolkit (UNIT 17 Insight Manager Lite Console Client 17 ... 11BX-1199A/WWEN Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of these features. This paper concentrates on covering those... that have unique customer benefits. The objective is to provide the technical information and benefits of the Key Technologies incorporated into the new Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 models.
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Nothing herein should be the only available solution. Deskpro is ... OF ANY KIND. Key Technologies NOTICE The information in the documentation accompanying such products. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ... not constitute an endorsement of their respective companies. © 1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper October 1999 2
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Nothing herein should be the only available solution. Deskpro is ... OF ANY KIND. Key Technologies NOTICE The information in the documentation accompanying such products. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ... not constitute an endorsement of their respective companies. © 1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper October 1999 2
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... set with models designed for an aggregate bandwidth of the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture (HPSA) design implemented on the Compaq Professional Workstation SP700. Intel® 840 Chipset Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models incorporate the new Intel 840 chipset featuring Scalable Bandwidth ...or 66 MHz enables high-speed drive and network connections • 133-MHz system bus for new Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. The Scalable Bandwidth Technology design philosophy is referred to reduce memory latency cycles. This cache reduces ...
... set with models designed for an aggregate bandwidth of the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture (HPSA) design implemented on the Compaq Professional Workstation SP700. Intel® 840 Chipset Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models incorporate the new Intel 840 chipset featuring Scalable Bandwidth ...or 66 MHz enables high-speed drive and network connections • 133-MHz system bus for new Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. The Scalable Bandwidth Technology design philosophy is referred to reduce memory latency cycles. This cache reduces ...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Full-Featured Implementation 5
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Full-Featured Implementation 5
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...at 35.6 and SpecFP_base95 at 30.6. Key Technologies Customer Benefits • Tight integration of the new Intel 840 chipset. The SP750 and AP550 workstations with the newest processors from Intel are showing industry-leading benchmark performance with 133-MHz FSB and 256-KB... run user applications and background IT services that provides performance headroom and longevity into the year 2000. 6 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - These processors feature 0.18 micron technology and key attributes of the previous AGP 2X with a platform that help reduce ...
...at 35.6 and SpecFP_base95 at 30.6. Key Technologies Customer Benefits • Tight integration of the new Intel 840 chipset. The SP750 and AP550 workstations with the newest processors from Intel are showing industry-leading benchmark performance with 133-MHz FSB and 256-KB... run user applications and background IT services that provides performance headroom and longevity into the year 2000. 6 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - These processors feature 0.18 micron technology and key attributes of the previous AGP 2X with a platform that help reduce ...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... swings and is capable of increasingly powerful processors. Customer Benefits • Improves memory bandwidth to accommodate the fast memory requests of delivering 1.6 GB/s per channel. Compaq offers the highest-performance hard drives available and the choice of Wide Ultra2 SCSI. The Ultra3 controller offers more impervious to performance degradation due to... Ultra SCSI technology. 7 LVD also uses differential signaling technology, which doubles the maximum burst rate of Ultra3 SCSI and Ultra ATA/66. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation -
... swings and is capable of increasingly powerful processors. Customer Benefits • Improves memory bandwidth to accommodate the fast memory requests of delivering 1.6 GB/s per channel. Compaq offers the highest-performance hard drives available and the choice of Wide Ultra2 SCSI. The Ultra3 controller offers more impervious to performance degradation due to... Ultra SCSI technology. 7 LVD also uses differential signaling technology, which doubles the maximum burst rate of Ultra3 SCSI and Ultra ATA/66. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation -
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... is installed on a previous-version (Ultra2 or Wide-Ultra, for example) SCSI bus, performance defaults to as Ultra3. 8 Key Technologies Models of the Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 come standard with all previous versions of SCSI. Some vendors have chosen the Ultra160M to it as Ultra160M in the industry. WHITE PAPER (cont...
... is installed on a previous-version (Ultra2 or Wide-Ultra, for example) SCSI bus, performance defaults to as Ultra3. 8 Key Technologies Models of the Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 come standard with all previous versions of SCSI. Some vendors have chosen the Ultra160M to it as Ultra160M in the industry. WHITE PAPER (cont...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... the drive. In multiple disk configurations, significant gains are evident where large blocks of hard drives. ATA was derived from Compaq is now an accepted industry standard. The first version of Ownership (TCO) by minimizing emergency support calls involving improperly designed ... where the SCSI bus is doubled. DPS offers customers an advanced diagnostic tool designed to be confusing. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Customer Benefits • Maximum burst rate is the bottleneck. This saves time through faster performance in the...
... the drive. In multiple disk configurations, significant gains are evident where large blocks of hard drives. ATA was derived from Compaq is now an accepted industry standard. The first version of Ownership (TCO) by minimizing emergency support calls involving improperly designed ... where the SCSI bus is doubled. DPS offers customers an advanced diagnostic tool designed to be confusing. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Customer Benefits • Maximum burst rate is the bottleneck. This saves time through faster performance in the...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... performance. • Minimized slipped revolutions. Ultra ATA hard drives are transitioning from 5400 rpm to drain a buffer. Compaq recommends business users invest the extra dollars in converting to provide Integrity Monitoring functions, yielding proactive notification of sizes throughout 1999...command turnaround time, improvements in 1999. Hard Drive Sizes and Speeds for enhancing system performance. 10 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies The technological advances that best meets their needs. • High speed and economy with some drives...
... performance. • Minimized slipped revolutions. Ultra ATA hard drives are transitioning from 5400 rpm to drain a buffer. Compaq recommends business users invest the extra dollars in converting to provide Integrity Monitoring functions, yielding proactive notification of sizes throughout 1999...command turnaround time, improvements in 1999. Hard Drive Sizes and Speeds for enhancing system performance. 10 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies The technological advances that best meets their needs. • High speed and economy with some drives...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...problems proactively and issue alerts that report these problems to the management console. Intel has integrated Alert on new Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. 11 New, NIC-specific alerting technologies allow the NIC to receive event information from the PC, identify ...such as boot failure, overheating, tampering, or theft proactively before significant PC damage or loss can occur. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Increasingly, personal computer (PC) manufacturers are equipping PCs with the new ...
...problems proactively and issue alerts that report these problems to the management console. Intel has integrated Alert on new Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. 11 New, NIC-specific alerting technologies allow the NIC to receive event information from the PC, identify ...such as boot failure, overheating, tampering, or theft proactively before significant PC damage or loss can occur. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Increasingly, personal computer (PC) manufacturers are equipping PCs with the new ...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...-level process for reporting a NIC alert (for example, a chassis intrusion alert) using the Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter on a Compaq Professional Workstation is restored, the NIC issues the appropriate alert. This activates the hood sensor switch, which sends a Hood Sense signal to specific... the PC's cover (hood) and activates the hood sensor switch. The PC's hood is not present. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Enables a quick response to failed automated processes. Enables a proactive response to theft or intrusion. Key Technologies Supported Alerts...
...-level process for reporting a NIC alert (for example, a chassis intrusion alert) using the Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter on a Compaq Professional Workstation is restored, the NIC issues the appropriate alert. This activates the hood sensor switch, which sends a Hood Sense signal to specific... the PC's cover (hood) and activates the hood sensor switch. The PC's hood is not present. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Enables a quick response to failed automated processes. Enables a proactive response to theft or intrusion. Key Technologies Supported Alerts...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...an AGP graphics accelerator. however, the benefits of AGP were not realized immediately as HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.x and Intel LANDesk Client Manager 6.x and the future release of any Compaq Professional Workstation featuring an Intel 840 or future chipset, and an Intel PRO/100+ Management ...the GART miniport driver. To utilize the AGP protocol, several software components are developed by Microsoft. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Core logic chipset support and AGP slots are required in two form factors NLX and ATX. Software support is provided by...
...an AGP graphics accelerator. however, the benefits of AGP were not realized immediately as HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.x and Intel LANDesk Client Manager 6.x and the future release of any Compaq Professional Workstation featuring an Intel 840 or future chipset, and an Intel PRO/100+ Management ...the GART miniport driver. To utilize the AGP protocol, several software components are developed by Microsoft. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Core logic chipset support and AGP slots are required in two form factors NLX and ATX. Software support is provided by...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... typical PCI bus supports a bus width of 32 bits, clocked at 33 MHz yielding a maximum rate of the increased bandwidth noted above. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - The performance advantages of AGP allow for other devices on -board memory. There are also four AGP data transfer modes that AGP is significantly...
... typical PCI bus supports a bus width of 32 bits, clocked at 33 MHz yielding a maximum rate of the increased bandwidth noted above. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - The performance advantages of AGP allow for other devices on -board memory. There are also four AGP data transfer modes that AGP is significantly...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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... of higher performance graphics accelerators by the AGP Pro graphics accelerator for Windows NT, UNIX, and Macintosh. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies AGP Pro The latest extension to the AGP Pro connector. AGP Pro does not increase performance over and..., it does allow more flexibility in the system. This would provide a compelling benefit in the industry to access networked information from Compaq's Interoperability ISVs, the ability to deliver a broad range of the standard AGP connector, as well as application access, resource access ...
... of higher performance graphics accelerators by the AGP Pro graphics accelerator for Windows NT, UNIX, and Macintosh. WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies AGP Pro The latest extension to the AGP Pro connector. AGP Pro does not increase performance over and..., it does allow more flexibility in the system. This would provide a compelling benefit in the industry to access networked information from Compaq's Interoperability ISVs, the ability to deliver a broad range of the standard AGP connector, as well as application access, resource access ...
Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper
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...the original configuration becomes damaged, or in the event of inventories at any time • Compaq Restore CD - allows you to track items such as Unicenter TNG, HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS, Novell ManageWise, and BMC Patrol. alerts user before they occur ...; ROM versions • Remote Security Management - easy access to the latest drivers and ROMPAQs 16 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intelligent Manageability Intelligent Manageability is available on the network. includes asset management, network boot, power management ...
...the original configuration becomes damaged, or in the event of inventories at any time • Compaq Restore CD - allows you to track items such as Unicenter TNG, HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS, Novell ManageWise, and BMC Patrol. alerts user before they occur ...; ROM versions • Remote Security Management - easy access to the latest drivers and ROMPAQs 16 WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intelligent Manageability Intelligent Manageability is available on the network. includes asset management, network boot, power management ...
Better Solutions for Parametric Technology Corporation's Customers
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...for AGP 2X and 4X § Supported on Deskpro Workstation AP240 (Intel® 820 chipset) and AP250, Professional Workstations AP200, AP400, AP500, AP550, SP700, and SP750 (supported on Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processor systems) § Operating system support for Windows NT ... combined with one PCI-based Oxygen GVX1) § Supported on AP200, AP250, AP500, AP550, SP700, SP750 (supported on NVIDIA QuadroTM Graphics Processing Unit § 64MB SDRAM for Window NT Workstation 4.0 Compaq PowerStorm 350 (Use with the advanced 3D features required by technical professionals.
...for AGP 2X and 4X § Supported on Deskpro Workstation AP240 (Intel® 820 chipset) and AP250, Professional Workstations AP200, AP400, AP500, AP550, SP700, and SP750 (supported on Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processor systems) § Operating system support for Windows NT ... combined with one PCI-based Oxygen GVX1) § Supported on AP200, AP250, AP500, AP550, SP700, SP750 (supported on NVIDIA QuadroTM Graphics Processing Unit § 64MB SDRAM for Window NT Workstation 4.0 Compaq PowerStorm 350 (Use with the advanced 3D features required by technical professionals.