New PA-8500-Based HP VISUALIZE Workstations Shatter Industry-Standard Benchmarks for Technical Computing.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)--May 17, 1999-- "Ultimate Design Machines" Feature New, Innovative System Architecture for Leadership 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 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. Performance Hewlett-Packard Company, the worldwide workstation leader(1), today announced that its new HP VISUALIZE workstations (see today's related announcement) are the world's fastest technical-computing workstations. The PA-8500-based HP VISUALIZE B1000, C3000 and J5000 shatter shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. previous industry-standard performance benchmarks registered by competitors, such as Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , by up to 80 percent(2) for 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. performance and up to 85 percent(3) for graphics performance. These systems clearly demonstrate what it takes to be the best in technical computing. These systems deliver dramatic results for scientists and engineers who must process, visualize and manipulate extremely large sets of complex data. With double the performance(4), the systems drive projects to successful completion faster and more accurately than previously possible. For example, in Electronic Design Automation (EDA), multiday simulations are cut in half, dramatically improving engineering productivity. Multimillion transistor Integrated Circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs) can be verified prior to fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. , resulting in substantial savings. Similarly, in Mechanical Design Automation (MDA), more powerful virtual prototyping helps drive bottom-line benefits. "HP today is accelerating the momentum it has established as the workstation-market leader by optimizing its 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 workstation family to exploit HP's powerful, award-winning PA-8500 technology," said Barry Crume, product marketing manager for HP's Workstation Systems Division. "HP also is fully leveraging its investment in 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. (5) processor as the on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: Fully optimized to exploit the benefits of its award-winning PA-8500 processor, these newly designed systems deliver twice the CPU performance, memory 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 bandwidth, disk transfer rate and reliability of the previous generation. They also offer application binary compatibility See binary compatible. and significantly lower list prices. For example, the new entry-level HP VISUALIZE B1000(6) is 30 percent faster in combined SPECint and SPECfp performance than the highest performing workstations from Sun, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) .(7) The HP VISUALIZE C3000 -- the world's fastest desktop workstation -- is the first uniprocessor workstation to register above a gigaflop gigaflop - gigaflops in an industry-standard benchmark that measures supercomputing potential for scientific and engineering applications.(8) And when customers use the HP VISUALIZE J5000 in HP's VISUALIZE Center immersive visualization See virtual reality and CAVE. environment, they get double the performance. Unlike other solutions, customers can boost performance with new workstations, not a whole new solution. -0-
Benchmarks/ J5000 C3000 B1000
Configuration (2-way) (1-way) (1-way)
Processor PA-8500 PA-8500 PA-8500
Clock 440Mhz 400MHz 300MHz
SPECint95 32.6 30.3 22.4
SPECfp95 52.3 48.6 38.8
SPECrate_int95 568 274 202
SPECrate_fp95 751 437 349
LINPACK 1265(9) 1215 935
1000x1000
MFLOPS
CPU Cache 0.5MB/ 0.5MB/ 0.5MB/
1MB 1MB 1MB
on-chip on-chip on-chip
primary primary primary
RAM (up to) 4GB 4GB 4GB
Internal Storage 72GB 36GB 36GB
I/O 8 slots 6 slots 6 slots
Benchmarks/ SUN Ultra SUN Ultra SGI
Configuration 10/440 60/450 Octane
(1-way) (1-way/ R12000
2-way) (1-way/
2-way)
Processor Ultra Ultra MIPS
SPARC-IIi SPARC-II R12000
Clock 440MHz 450MHz 300MHz
SPECint95 17.9 19.7/19.7 17.3/NR
SPECfp95 22.7 27.0/32.7 27.4/34.3
SPECrate_int95 NR NR NR
SPECrate_fp95 NR NR NR
LINPACK NR NR 524/1022
1000x1000
MFLOPS
CPU Cache 2MB 16KB/ 32KB/
external 16KB 32KB
secondary primary primary
4MB 2MB
external external
secondary secondary
RAM (up to) 2GB 2GB 4GB
Internal Storage 36GB 36GB 27GB
I/O 4 slots 6 slots 7 slots
(4PCI/2
graphics)
The HP VISUALIZE workstations also feature the world's most
advanced graphics subsystems, the HP VISUALIZE fx2Pro, fx4Pro and
fx6Pro for breakthrough graphics performance:
Benchmarks/ C3000- SUN B1000- SUN
Configuration fx6Pro Ultra 60/450 fx4Pro Ultra10/440
Elite3Dm6 (prelim.)(10) Elite 3Dm3
Design Review 22.8 N/A(11) 14.4 N/A(11)
Pro-CDRS-01 35.4 19.1 19.1 13.7
PLBsurf93 1149 680 685 519
PLBwire93 775 433 550 303
-0- Information about HP VISUALIZE technical workstations and graphics can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/visualize. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP had computer-related revenue of $39.5 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. HP plans to launch a new company ("NewCo") consisting of its industry-leading test-and-measurement, components, chemical-analysis and medical businesses. These businesses represented $7.6 billion of HP's total revenue in fiscal 1998. With leading positions in multiple market segments, this technology-based company will focus on high-growth opportunities such as communications and life sciences. HP has 122,800 employees worldwide and had total 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. -0-
(1) Based on the IDC Worldwide Workstation Review and Forecast 1998.
(2) HP Model C3000 with PA-8500 processor at 400MHz with a SPECfp95
of 48.6 beats the Sun Ultra 60 (1-way) at 450MHz with a SPECfp95
of 27.0 by 80 percent.
(3) HP Model C3000 with PA-8500 processor at 400MHz and VISUALIZE
fx6Pro graphics with a Pro-CDRS-01 of 35.4 beats the Sun Ultra 60
(1-way) at 450MHz and Elite3Dm6 graphics with a Pro-CDRS-01 of
19.1 by 85 percent.
(4) With double the performance of the previous generation of HP
VISUALIZE workstations.
(5) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set
computing.
(6) HP's existing entry-level system is the VISUALIZE Model B180L.
That workstation was aggressively repriced by 30 percent in
February 1999.
(7) (See specweb site: www.spec.org)
(8) The Linpack 1000x1000 benchmark.
(9) Uniprocessor result only. Two-way results are not yet available.
(10) Preliminary.
(11) Sun does not publish this number.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
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