System Design - Compaq 6000 Supplementary Manual

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support for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51, and Sunsoft
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Solaris 2.5.
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Restore Mechanism -A SmartStart for Workstations CD and a Windows NT 4.0 CD are included
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if re-installation of the operating systems and device drivers is needed. The SmartStart for
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Workstation CD also includes utility software and applications for customer convenience.
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Software Maintenance - Keep your software up-to-date with Compaq's latest device drivers,
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flashable ROM images, and utilities via both the Compaq web site and the Compaq Support
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Software CD subscription service.
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Intelligent Manageability - Compaq keeps you up and running, while lowering your total cost
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of computing by making clients more manageable from a single point on the network. Together,
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Compaq Insight Manager and Compaq System Management Partners deliver the information
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required for an effective management solution. Select your mix of management tools from
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industry leading management ISVs.
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Interoperability - Compaq has partnered with the best ISVs in the industry to deliver high-
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. . performance interoperability solutions for integrated UNIX, Windows NT, and Apple Macintosh
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environments.
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For a complete overview of the software platform, please refer to the Compaq Web site,
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www.compaq.com.
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System Design

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Q. What is Compaq Highly Parallel Systems Architecture?
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A. Compaq's Workstation engineers did extensive application profiling to understand the
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nature of the bottlenecks inherent when running complex, resource intensive
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applications such as those found in CAD/CAE, EDA, and financial trading
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environments. To provide a truly balanced, high performance system, we realized there
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was a need to offer not only multiprocessing capabilities, but also dual memory
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controllers so memory requests can be processed in parallel. In addition, dual-peer PCI
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buses were implemented so I/O requests can also be processed in parallel.
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The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 has been designed with the Highly Parallel
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Systems Architecture to maximize system bandwidth, which improves overall system
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performance. No other Intel based Windows NT system on the market today provides
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the uncompromising performance that workstation users require, Compaq Highly
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Dual memory architecture: provides exceptional performance in resource-intensive
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applications by providing 1.07GB/sec memory bandwidth: two to four times faster
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than other Windows NT / X86 systems
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Dual-peer PCI buses: provides I/O bandwidth of 267MB/sec – twice that of single
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bus implementations – and allow for better balanced I/O system performance
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