New High-end, 128-way HP Server Delivers Performance for Technical Data Centers; High-performance V2500 System Speeds Design Process, Gives Customers Competitive Advantage.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)--Dec. 8, 1998--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced the HP 9000 V2500 technical server, a high-end 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 server that provides more than twice the performance of current competitive offerings. The server is targeted for technical computing customers who require a scalable, high-performance machine; an extensive portfolio of design and discovery applications; and business-critical high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . The V2500 combines HP's 64-bit 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. (1) 11 operating environment and PA-8500 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. architecture, industry-leading high-availability offerings, and mission-critical services and support, providing customers with a powerful technical-computing solution. Scalable up to a 128-way configuration, the V2500 delivers capacity for thousands of users in large engineering environments for computing and product data management (PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and ) applications. "The HP 9000 V2500 offers technical users a high-end UNIX system solution that allows them to design products faster and bring them to market quicker, thereby gaining a competitive advantage for their companies," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "We build the competitive edge into the solution: performance, scalability, availability features, services and support, and close alliances with key application vendors." The V2500, which runs the powerful PA-8500 RISC processor, can scale up to a 128-way configuration and offers optimum high throughput for customers running multiple scientific and engineering applications, such as electronic design analysis (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ), mechanical design analysis (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 product data management (PDM). The V2500 delivers more than 55 gigaflops (GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS. (unit) gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second. in a 64-way configuration of a Linpack NxN application, and in a 32-way configuration, it delivers more than 7,249 SPECint rate 95. Systems That are Up and Running In today's competitive manufacturing and design environments, availability is a key technical-server requirement. To address the need for availability, HP has added the V-Class servers to its Mission Critical Server Suites, which provide uptime commitments of 99.95 percent. HP's vision is to deliver end-to-end availability solutions at a 99.999 percent uptime -- just five minutes of downtime per year -- by the end of the year 2000. HP also has enhanced its high-availability solution, MC/ServiceGuard, by adding the ability to form a 16-node cluster environment based on HP-UX 11 systems. With a 16-node configuration, a total of 2,048 PA-8500 CPUs may be deployed in engineering data centers and scientific-research institutions to provide scalable computing capacity and the ability to solve very large, complex problems quickly. HP's technical-server customers now can configure the same high levels of reliability and availability as commercial customers. Customers requiring disaster protection also can take advantage of HP's local and wide area network disaster-tolerant solutions, including CampusCluster, MetroCluster and ContinentalClusters. Broad ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Application Portfolio Continued growth in software development for the HP 9000 family of servers clearly demonstrates industry support for the server platform and HP-UX operating environment. To date, there are more than 15,000 applications available for HP-UX. Technical-computing applications from such leading developers as Avant!, Ansys, Cadence, Fluent, HKS HKS Harvard Kennedy School (John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA) HKS Hrvatski Košarkaški Savez (Croatian Basketball Federation) HKS Silver Hake HKS Hong Kong Standard , The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, MARC Analysis Research Corporation, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys are optimized for HP-UX 11 environments and designed to take advantage of the PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. (2) architecture. Furthermore, HP-UX is the only operating environment already configured to migrate seamlessly to the IA-64 architecture in 1999, ensuring customers of investment protection by eliminating the need to recompile To compile a program again. A program is recompiled after a change has been made to it in order to test and run the revised version. Programs are recompiled many times during the course of development and maintenance. See compile. applications when migrating to IA-64. U.S. Pricing and Availability The HP 9000 V2500 is expected to be available worldwide in January, the 128-way configuration is expected to be available in mid-1999. Local HP sales representatives can provide pricing information. Information about HP's data-center solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/datacenter. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. Note to Editors: International Data Corporation's 1997 Technical Computing Market Report found that HP held the No. 1 position in worldwide technical-server shipments and revenue. (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. (2) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set computing. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. |
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