HP SELECTS NEXTREME RAID FOR VISUALIZE WORKSTATIONS.LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LSI), Milpitas, Calif., has announced that Hewlett-Packard Company has selected LSI Logic's Nextreme(TM) RAID solution for use in their VISUALIZE Personal Workstations. HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations are designed to meet the processing requirements of large, complex Windows NT-based applications that require a high-performance, fault-tolerant solution typically used for graphics, application performance and system designs. The performance-enhancing Nextreme RAID solution is based on Veritas' enterprise-class disk management software and LSI Logic's high-performance SCSI controllers and software. Nextreme RAID provides cost-effective building blocks for complete motherboard or host adapter board solutions. The Nextreme RAID solution for HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations includes the Symbios(R) HAB HAB See: House Air Waybill SYM21040 RAID-enabled Ultra160 host adapter board and Veritas Array Manager. This powerful combination has demonstrated workstation 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 performance improvements in excess of 40 percent in single drive implementations. Additional performance increases can be realized by striping data across multiple drives while ensuring high data availability. "Today's announcement reflects HP's dedication to providing our technical customers with the latest technology for the highest performance and best value available," said Jim Zafarana, worldwide marketing manager for HP's Technical Computing Division. "The combination of HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations and LSI Logic's Nextreme RAID provides our joint customers with a high-performance, fault-tolerant solution that is needed by users of advanced Mechanical Design Automation (MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. ) and Digital Content Creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. (DCC (1) (Direct Cable Connection) A Windows 95/98 feature that allows PCs to be cabled together for data transfer. DCC actually sets up a network connection between the two machines. ) applications." "This announcement is another milestone in a long history of cooperation between HP and LSI Logic that brings added value to the workstation and storage marketplace," said Bill Wuertz, vice president and general manager of LSI Logic's Storage Standard Products, which is a part of LSI Logic's Network Computing Division. "Nextreme RAID, combined with our RAID-enabled host adapter boards, provides HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstation users with high- performance RAID functionality in an area where RAID was previously considered cost prohibitive." First demonstrated at the 1999 Fall COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). , Nextreme RAID improves total system performance, accelerates applications, and is completely compatible with LSI Logic's Ultra, Ultra2 and Ultra160 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. devices. About LSI Logic Corporation LSI Logic Corporation is a leading supplier of communications chips for broadband, data networking, wireless and set-top box applications. In addition, the company provides chips and boards for network computing and supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035. For more information, visit http://www.lsilogic.com or call 408-433-8000. |
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