"Fibre Down" To The Motherboard.QLogic Corp. is taking the next step in Fibre Channel connectivity by integrating Fibre Channel ports directly into servers and workstations at the motherboard level, without the overhead of host bus adapters See host adapter. that require PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). expansion slots. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. is also contributing to this trend, known as "Fibre Down", with the integration of the QLogic ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. 2200 Fibre Channel controller chip into its 900MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Sun Blade The Sun Blade series was a computer workstation line developed and sold by Sun Microsystems from 2000 to 2006. The Sun Blade architecture was based on the UltraSPARC microprocessor family. The range replaced the earlier Sun Ultra workstation series. 1000 workstation. QLogic storage area network (SAN) connectivity products control the flow of data between storage systems, tape libraries, and network servers. Their ISP architecture controller chips are designed for Fibre Channel, the technology that makes large data centers possible. By moving data at rates of up to 2Gbps to hundreds of storage devices across distances up to 20 km, Fibre Channel unleashes the power of SANs. QLogic simplifies SAN implementations by providing OEMs, system integrators, and resellers with a single point of contact for end-to-end SAN hardware and software. Customer time and resources are saved by providing a complete portfolio of hardware, software, and service components. "The Sun Blade 1000 workstation is designed to meet the rigorous demands required by the compute-intensive applications of technical computing as well as the heavy lifting necessary for high quality 3D graphics applications," said Fred Kohout, director of marketing, technical market products, Sun Microsystems. Sun backs its Sun Blade 1000 workstation with more than five years of 64-bit hardware experience. The workstation features the first implementation of the UltraSPARC III and gives twice the performance, memory and disk capacity of existing UltraSPARC II systems. |
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