The Pa-8200 Processor - HP 9000 V-Class Operator's Manual

Overview

The PA-8200 processor

The PA-8200 processor
The V-Class server uses the Hewlett-Packard PA-8200 processor, based
on the concept of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC). The
PA-8200 was designed according to Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC
Architecture version 2.0 specifications.
The PA-RISC architecture is presented in the PA-RISC 2.0 Architecture
reference manual. Please refer to that document for detailed information
about the features of the PA-8200. This Operator's Guide does not
attempt to duplicate information in that manual. Instead, it presents
only V-Class server-specific information.
The processors of the system are supported by several Application
Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) hardware controllers, an enhanced
memory system, and a high-bandwidth I/O subsystem. Special hardware
and software allow these processors to perform both as conventional
single CPUs or together, in parallel, to solve more complex problems
requiring parallel processing.
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