DPT announces entry level fault tolerant firmware for RAID on the motherboard.MAITLAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 1996--Distributed Processing Technology (DPT), a leading supplier of high performance SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) solutions, Wednesday announced plans to release, in early 1997, entry-level fault-tolerant firmware for RAID on the motherboard. DPT's new RAID firmware solution for motherboards will support the i960RP and the I20 interface. For increased hardware RAID performance, DPT will also offer an optional Smart 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 paddle card, interfacing to a standard PCI slot. The Smart I/O paddle card includes DPT's new Domino ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , providing hardware XOR (eXclusive OR) A Boolean logic operation that is widely used in cryptography as well as in generating parity bits for error checking and fault tolerance. XOR compares two input bits and generates one output bit. The logic is simple. If the bits are the same, the result is 0. for super-charged RAID performance. Additionally, DPT will offer a second solution -- the Smart I/O II paddle card. Smart I/O II will plug into a RAID enhancement connector which will be added behind a PCI slot by motherboard vendors. OEMs may offer this solution as a RAID upgrade to any i960RP-based motherboard. Features include an I20 interface support plus XOR and ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. hardware. DPT's new DOMINO ASIC-based Smart I/O II will offer higher performance than the original Smart I/O solution -- by virtue of increased concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking . With DPT's exclusive motherboard design, OEMs can provide the customer optimal RAID performance. Also slated for 1997, DPT's SmartRAID V will utilize the i960 architecture. Two levels of performance are planned: The first level of performance utilizes the i960RP CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , and the second will use a new multiprocessing architecture ready for SCSI-LVDS and FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) See Fibre Channel. FC-AL - Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop. . These scaleable RAID controllers will be available in one, two and three channel configurations with up to 256MB of ECC-protected cache memory. These new products will boast at least three times the I/O processing power and bandwidth of previous DPT offerings. DPT's Storage Manager utility will support all DPT's new RAID solutions under all major operating systems. -0- Editors Note: For slides or spec sheets of DPT products, contact Marketing at 407/830-5522, extension 215. Reproducible images are also available via NEWSdesk International: http://www.newsdesk.com. DPT, SmartCache and SmartRAID are registered trademarks of Distributed Processing Technology Corporation. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. Pricing and availability are subject to change without notification. In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol eisenbrg and dpt.com. In the World Wide Web address noted in this news release, there is a double slash between http: and www.newsdesk.com. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Distributed Processing Technology Debra Eisenberg, V.P. Sales & Distribution 407/830-5522, ext.420 Internet: eisenbrg@dpt.com Comdex/Fall '96, Booth No. L2762-LVCC |
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