HP Corrects and Replaces Previous Product Announcement, BW177, 2/22, CA-HEWLETT-PACKARD-8.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 1999-- HP Enhances Business-critical HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. ; New Scalability and Management Enhancements, Plus Promotional Offer for HP-UX 11, HP's Proven Business-critical UNIX System Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. Hewlett-Packard Company today announced major enhancements to HP-UX(1) 11, HP's complete 64-bit UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) system operating environment, that deliver significantly greater scalability and performance for business-critical applications and data-center environments than ever before. HP also announced that its proven HP-UX 11 operating environment, with an unlimited user-level license, will be available with HP 9000 D-, K- and T-Class Enterprise Servers at no charge through April 30. An unlimited HP-UX 11 license will be bundled at no additional cost with HP's latest server, the HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server. With these enhancements, HP continues to outpace out·pace tr.v. out·paced, out·pac·ing, out·pac·es To surpass or outdo (another), as in speed, growth, or performance. outpace Verb [-pacing, its competitors in innovating and investing in business-critical UNIX system technology. Introduced in November 1997, the customer-proven HP-UX 11 64-bit operating environment has become a popular platform for applications development and deployment of mission-critical solutions. HP-UX 11 has more than 25,000 installations, the largest of any 64-bit operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Additionally, HP-UX 11 allows customers to transition seamlessly to the next generation of 64-bit IA-64 architecture, making HP-UX the natural choice for business-critical UNIX systems on IA-64. Enhancements to HP-UX 11 include the following: -0-
-- increased scalability to improve the performance of databases and
applications across all UNIX system server platforms from HP;
-- 32-way CPU and 32GB memory to support the recently announced
high-end HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server, making the V2500 the
highest-performance UNIX system database and application server
available today;
-- full support for the HP 9000 A-Class Enterprise Server, C360
workstation and HP 1010D Fibre Channel high-availability storage
system;
-- additions to the Process Resource Manager subsystem, offering
customers greater control over the allocation of system resources
for I/O, CPU and memory, thereby simplifying consolidation of
multiple UNIX system applications to a single server;
-- performance enhancements to improve file-server, Internet and
OLTP performance; and
-- enhancements to HP's Unicode capabilities, for simpler
non-English language support and to enable support for the Euro,
Europe's new currency.
-0- By adding this new HP-UX 11 "extension pack," customers and software vendors can take advantage of the new HP-UX features without re-testing or re-compiling their applications. Since the introduction of HP-UX 11, HP has shipped functional enhancements through easily installed extension packs. This allows customers running business-critical applications to add new HP-UX 11 functionality with little impact on their operating environments. "The latest enhancements to HP-UX 11 fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. the promises we made at the introduction of our V2500 server in December," said Janice Chaffin, general manager of HP's High Performance Systems Division. "Our customers, who demand the highest levels of performance and reliability in their UNIX system data centers, will immediately benefit by these enhancements. This is another example of HP's commitment to build the next generation of UNIX system technologies to meet customers' needs well into the next century." HP-UX 11 is a critical component in delivering industry-leading total system performance. On Feb. 2, HP announced record results for the 300GB TPC-D A benchmark that measures decision support performance. See TPC. benchmark with its latest-generation HP 9000 V2500 high-end server, the proven HP-UX 11 operating environment, and the Oracle8i database. Compared with the closest 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. competitor, the HP system delivered almost two times the processing power with a power metric of 56,243.7 QppD@300GB. HP's throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. metric of 7,540 QthD@300GB led all SMP results by 50 percent, and its exceptional price/performance of $204/QphD@300GB placed second among SMP results, beating most by a wide margin. The complete configuration, as benchmarked, will be available Aug. 1, 1999. U.S. Pricing and Availability The HP-UX 11 extension pack is expected to be available March 1. Complete pricing information is available from local HP sales representatives. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing computing - computer , Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 122,800 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. |
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