Data General announces plans to deliver broad family of Pentium Pro processor-based AViiON servers; Standard high-volume server boards to be component of new enterprise servers.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Data General today announced that it will offer a complete family of AViiON servers based on Intel's Pentium Pro processors beginning early in 1996. The new systems will complement Data General's current AViiON servers, running either the DG/UX enterprise operating system or Windows NT Server, and will support 15,000 existing AViiON applications. "The Intel architecture is clearly the winner in the chip wars," said David Ellenberger, vice president of corporate marketing. "With the introduction of the Pentium Pro processor, Intel more than matches the performance of the proprietary RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. chips, and provides the highest volume porting opportunity for software developers." "These servers will use a new systems architecture," said Ellenberger. "The new building block will be SHV SHV Shareholder Value SHV Standard High Volume SHV Sheave SHV Steenkolen Handels Vereeniging SHV Shreveport, LA, USA - Regional Airport (Airport Code) SHV Sport Horse Versatility SHV Supersonic/Hypersonic Vehicle SHV Super Hybrid Vehicle server boards, rather than microprocessor chips." The SHV (Standard High Volume) server boards combine up to four Intel Pentium Pro processors, memory, cache and 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 . Data General will use multiple SHV boards in AViiON servers that will run today's Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. ) applications without modification. David House, senior vice president of Intel's Enterprise Server Group, said, "We are delighted that Data General is using the Intel architecture for enterprise servers. We expect Data General, given its proven expertise in scalable computing, to be among the first to deliver SMP systems based on SHV servers." AViiON Deskside Servers The deskside AViion servers will be the low-cost systems based on single or dual Pentium Pro processors. The servers will be ideal for departmental and reseller-supplied applications, and will run DG/UX, Windows NT server, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. Open Server and UnixWare, and Novell Netware. AViiON Enterprise SHV Servers Data Generals enterprise servers will be based on SHV motherboards using up to four 166 and 200 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. Pentium Pro processors, 3 GB of memory and up to 5 Terabytes of fault-tolerant CLARiiON storage. The servers will incorporate an expandable dual-channel, high-performance PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). I/O subsystem with six internal slots and a 16-slot expansion chassis -- the industry's first PCI expansion chassis offering redundant data paths, power and cooling. SHV servers will incorporate all of the extensive reliability, high availability and storage features of the AViiON product family, and are equipped with fully redundant power and cooling. AViiON DG/UX Clusters AViiON SHV servers can be clustered to provide scalable performance and high availability. Up to eight AViiOn systems can share resources, such as applications and storage, while presenting a single-system view to users and systems administrators. DG/UX Clusters also enable software upgrades or hardware maintenance without downtime, and provide a flexible tool for the system administrator. An entire network can be easily managed from a Windows NT PC using Data General Enterprise Management Software. AViiON Large-Scale ccNUMA Servers In late 1996 Data General will introduce scalable, high-end systems based on the Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (architecture) Non-Uniform Memory Access - (NUMA) A memory architecture, used in multiprocessors, where the access time depends on the memory location. A processor can access its own local memory faster than non-local memory (memory which is local to another processor or shared architecture and multiple quad-processor SHV boards, linked with the high speed, industry-standard Scalable Coherent Interface (hardware, protocol) Scalable Coherent Interface - (SCI) The ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 standard that defines a point-to-point interface and a set of packet protocols. The SCI protocols use packets with a 16-byte header and 16, 64, or 256 data bytes. (SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. ) interconnect. The large-scale enterprise servers utilize the shared memory programming model that is already familiar to software developers, so that current SMP (symmetric multi-processing) applications will require no modification to take advantage of the tremendous processing power of the NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) A multiprocessing architecture in which memory is separated into close and distant banks. NUMA is similar to SMP, in which multiple CPUs share a single memory. However, in SMP, all CPUs access a common memory at the same speed. architecture. Data General, based in Westboro, Mass., specializes in servers, storage systems and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.2 billion for fiscal 1995. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com. -0- AViiON, CLARiiON and DG/UX are registered trademarks of Data General Corp. Pentium Pro is a registered trademark of Intel Corp. All brand and product names appearing in this press release may be product or brand names of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Corp. Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 |
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