ALR announces quad processor server with PCI bus -- supports up to four Pentium 90- or 100-MHz Processors.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1995-- Advanced Logic Research, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AALR AALR American Association for Leisure and Recreation AALR General Company for Land Reclamation, Development and Reconstruction (stock symbol) ) today unveiled the Revolution Q-SMP multiprocessor file server with PCI bus. Demonstrations for the new ALR ALR Administrative License Revocation ALR Agricultural Land Reserve (Canada) ALR Automatic Locking Retractor (seat belts) ALR Australian Law Reports (University of Tasmania Library) Revolution Q-SMP will be held at a private showing during Comdex/Spring '95, West Hall, Room W-165. The highly anticipated PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). version is comparable to the current award winning ALR Revolution Q-SMP. However, the new design of the Revolution Q-SMP PCI server will support the largest Level 2 cache See L2 cache. level 2 cache - secondary cache available on the market. Level 2 provides a dedicated cache-per-CPU that delivers higher overall performance versus the more commonly used shared-cache. It will be offered in 256-KB, 512-KB, 1- and 2-MB options. Dave Kirkey, vice president of sales and marketing at ALR states, "We've seen a clamoring transition to PCI in the desktop market during the past year. With more peripherals available for the maturing PCI bus, this shift will begin to move in the server market as well. In fact, with the maturity of the PCI bus and available PCI peripheral devices, market demand has been greater. Thus, it provides ALR the opportunity to bring to market one of the first quad multiprocessor PCI servers." Additional new feature options for the Revolution Q-SMP include: ALR's Quick 'Hot Swap II' drive kits with fan and locking mechanism which provides the system with the capability to support over 26-GB of internal 'hot swap' storage and support for RAID levels 0, 1 and 5. The new Revolution Q-SMP also supports Fast Wide SCSI-2 controllers and drives, and a 1200-Watt dual redundant power supply. The system's large memory configuration of 1-GB of EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. (Error Detection and Correction (algorithm, storage) error detection and correction - (EDAC, or "error checking and correction", ECC) A collection of methods to detect errors in transmitted or stored data and to correct them. This is done in many ways, all of them involving some form of coding. ) RAM automatically corrects single-bit errors and detects double-bit errors. The Revolution Q-SMP systems are compliant with Intel's Multiprocessor Specification, MP Spec v1.1. This makes it compatible with the most commonly used SMP operating environments including MS Windows NT, SCO UNIX, UnixWare 2.0, IBM OS/2 for SMP and Sun Solaris SMP. Kirkey continues to say, "The new ALR Revolution Q-SMP announced today offers customers our next generation of file servers and the assurance of the highest quality with which the ALR server family has earned industry-wide acclaim. Last year, ALR introduced the first multiprocessor system to support four 90- or 100-MHz Pentium CPUs. Since, the Revolution Q-SMP has received industry-wide media attention capturing some of the trade's most prestigious awards including PC/Computing's "MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. " (Most Valuable Product) for servers and VARBusiness "Best Pentium-based Server," said Kirkey. Price and availability on the new ALR Revolution Q-SMP starts at $6,495 for a single processor 90-MHz and $6,795 for a single processor 100-MHz configuration, respectively. Reseller prices will vary. The new Revolution Q-SMP will be available through ALR distributors and resellers worldwide in May 1995. The main system specifications on the new ALR Revolution Q-SMP include: 1 single 90- or 100-MHz Intel Pentium Processor with a dedicated 256-KB two-way set associative cache (architecture) set associative cache - A compromise between a direct mapped cache and a fully associative cache where each address is mapped to a certain set of cache locations. ALR QuadFlex SMP architecture 16-MB EDC (Error Detection and Correction) industry standard RAM/expandable to 1-GB 10 slots: six EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. bus mastering and four PCI bus mastering expansion slots (one is shared) 13 drive bays (18 with ALR Quick Hot Swap II kit option) 1-MB PCI local bus video 615 Watt power 1.44-MB floppy 2 high speed serial ports 1 parallel port 1 mouse port 1 keyboard port ALR FlashBIOS ALR NetTune Server Management 1 year on-site with 5 year/36 month warranty CONTACT: Dave Kirkey, Vice President, Marketing Genevieve Ortegon, Senior Marketing Manager 714/581-6770; 714/581-9240, FAX |
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