Axil introduces new workstation for high-end applications; scalable multiprocessing workstation features 1 GB memory capacity for demanding data-intensive applications.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--Axil Computer today announced the Axil ax·il n. The upper angle between a lateral organ, such as a leafstalk, and the stem that bears it. [Latin axilla, armpit. S/420 Workstation, a highly scalable multiprocessing desktop workstation that features a large 1 Gigabyte main memory capacity designed to accelerate simulation and other data-intensive applications. "Axil continues to demonstrate its commitment to bring new value add to the SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill market," said Bill Shellooe, Axil's vice president of sales and marketing. "The Axil S/420 Workstation provides 1 GB of memory on a single motherboard desktop system. We are bringing the simulation process from more expensive server systems directly to the user's desktop." The Axil S/420 Workstation delivers high performance for applications that manipulate large amounts of data. Conventional high-end workstations are typically limited to a half Gigabyte of main memory. The large memory capacity of the Axil S/420 Workstation allows large data sets to fit entirely within main memory, thereby speeding up application performance. This makes the Axil S/420 Workstation an ideal solution in both technical and commercial markets running applications such as electronic design automation, mechanical design engineering and analysis, geo-engineering, and financial analysis and modeling. "Users of Cadence's design automation tools require optimal performance and capacity. The Axil S/420 Workstation is well suited for our most compute-intensive applications," said David Milam, director of marketing programs for Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. Inc., the largest supplier of EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. software and tools. "One GB of memory will speed the overall design process of large circuits." Complementing the high memory capacity, the Axil S/420 Workstation supports up to four hyperSPARC or two SuperSPARC-II processors. The system can also be easily upgraded to the latest SPARC processor technology by simply swapping inexpensive processor modules. The system's expandable architecture allows users to add processing power and disk storage capacity as they need it without sacrificing existing investments in other system components. The Axil S/420 Workstation includes standard features to speed up application performance including two independent industry standard SBus I/O channels delivering twice the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bandwidth of today's typical workstations. In addition the system also features two Ethernet channels and on-board Fast and Fast-Wide SCSI-II interfaces. Designers can also select from a variety of high performance 8-bit and 24-bit graphics options. The Axil S/420 Workstation is available now. Base systems start at $44,440 for a single processor system with 512 MB of memory. Configured systems begin at $49,180 for a 100 MHz (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. hyperSPARC processor, 512 MB of memory, a 2.1 GB internal hard disk, 8-bit graphics and a 21-inch monitor. Axil Computer Inc. develops and manufactures SPARC-based workstations and servers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . All Axil products are compatible with the SPARC Compliance Definition (SCD ScD [L.] Scien´tiae Doc´tor (Doctor of Science). SCD 1 Sickle cell disease, see there 2 Subacute combined degeneration, see there 3 Sudden cardiac death, see there ) certified by SPARC International See SPARC. and run standard Solaris releases from SunSoft. Axil, a subsidiary of Hyundai, is located in Santa Clara. For additional information, customers can contact Axil Computer directly at 800/472-AXIL, or visit Axil's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.axil.com. CONTACT: Axil Computer Inc., Santa Clara Bobbe Smirni, 408/486-5464 or Thomas Associates Inc. Roger Knott, 415/325-6236 roger@thomaspr.com |
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