COMPAQ CHANGES COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE FOR E-BUSINESS.Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) unveiled worldwide its AlphaServer GS Series high-end 8-, 16- and 32-way servers running the Tru64 UNIX The 64-bit Unix operating system for HP's AlphaServers. Formerly Digital Unix when Alpha was a product family from Digital Equipment Corporation, it was renamed Tru64 Unix in 1999 by Compaq (HP acquired Compaq in 2002). and OpenVMS operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Designed for customers experiencing explosive growth in the following highly demanding markets, Compaq's AlphaServer GS Series systems provide: * e-commerce/Internet - scalability to accommodate business growth and varying traffic patterns, as well as availability and manageability to ensure systems are "always on" * Business/e-applications - manageability of massive amounts of data, support of customer requirements for input, storage and inquiry, and ability of applications to run in record time with Very Large Memory * Telecommunications - ultra high availability for business-critical applications, addressing wireless demands of telecommunications providers, plus flexibility as an ideal server consolidation platform * High Performance Technical Computing - performance to handle the most complex computing tasks in record time (e.g., Using Compaq AlphaServers, Celera Genomics recently completed the sequencing phase of the genome from one human being) * Financial Services and Manufacturing - dynamic response to meet unpredictable system demands and critical uptime requirements * Healthcare - the required reliability and availability that hospitals need for absolute 24x7 uptime. The new AlphaServers utilize a unique, modular design that supports 8-way (AlphaServer GS80), 16-way (AlphaServer GS160), and 32-way (AlphaServer GS320) configurations, based on the Alpha EV67 731 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. processor. The central component of their architecture is based on up to four EV67 processors, used as "building blocks," and a Global Switch. Each Quad Building Block (QBB QBB Quad Building Block ) consists of four CPUs, four memory arrays with up to 32 GB capacity (up to a total of 1/4 TB in AlphaServer GS320 systems), one 6.4 GB local switch bandwidth and 8 PCI buses with 28 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). options with 1.6 GB/second of 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. Multiple QBBs are connected together easily to create larger systems. The larger the system configuration, the greater the bandwidth. All system attributes scale in capability and performance, providing customers with headroom for growth, however explosive or unpredictable. In addition, Compaq offers a clear upgrade path with future Alpha processor technology. This will result in up to a 20-fold performance increase over the life of the system. |
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