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April 1998
Prepared By
Workstation Marketing
Compaq Computer
Corporation
Contents
The New Compaq
Professional
Workstations .................. 3
Pentium II ....................... 7
Graphics ........................ 8
16X Maximum IDE
CD-ROM ........................ 15
24X Maximum IDE
CD-ROM ........................ 16
(USB) ............................ 17
Platform ........................ 19
Workstation Software
Platform ........................ 19
Questions and Answers .20
ECG027/0498
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    The Compaq Professional Workstation April 1998 Prepared By 6000 Key Technologies White Paper Workstation Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Key Technologies incorporated The New Compaq into The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000. This paper concentrates on covering Professional those new features and technologies that have unique customer benefits.

  • Page 2: April

    HITE APER (cont’ d) OTICE The information in this publication is subject to change without notice and is provided “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION REMAINS WITH RECIPIENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF BUSINESS...

  • Page 3: Professional Workstations

    HITE APER (cont’ d) O M P A Q The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 is a powerful , industry standard workstation specifically designed to deliver leading performance with today’s demanding CAD/CAE, digital content creation, and EDA applications. Compaq Professional Workstation is backed by strong partnerships with leading ISVs to provide highly integrated and optimized solutions, which can be confidently deployed in the most demanding, business critical environments.

  • Page 4: Compaq Highly Parallel

    HITE APER (cont’ d) O M P A Q H I G H L Y A R A L L E L The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 has been designed with a Highly Parallel System Architecture that maximizes system bandwidth to improve performance in demanding applications.
  • Page 5 Intel based Windows NT workstation market take advantage of this support by simply adding an additional processor to an already existing desktop design. Compaq takes multiprocessing to the next step with the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture by enhancing memory and I/O bandwidth as well.

  • Page 6: Processor Technologies

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Diagram 4: Multiprocessing Support R O C E S S O R E C H N O L O G I E S The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 uses Intel’s Pentium II processor, which incorporate Dynamic Execution and the Dual Independent Bus architecture technologies to provide the highest performance next generation processors.

  • Page 7: Pentium Ii

    HITE APER (cont’ d) E N T I U M The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 uses the Pentium II processor, which is Intel’s newest processor that incorporates P6 technology along with Intel’s new MMX processor instruction set. The Pentium II will come in 233MHz, 266MHz, 300MHz, 333MHz, and 333MHz (with ETR) versions with the 512KB cache.

  • Page 8: Graphics

    HITE APER (cont’ d) R A P H I C S Three graphics solutions are available for the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000. All are PCI local bus implementations designed to maximize system performance and have been tested to ensure optimum compatibility and reliability. For 2D applications, the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 includes the Matrox Millennium II graphics controller.
  • Page 9 HITE APER (cont’ d) Resolution 1600 x 1200 1600 x 1024 1280 x 1024 1152 x 882 1024 x 768 800 x 600 640 x 480 Matrox Millennium II Technical Specifications The main enhancements Matrox has implemented in the Millennium II are: PCI 2.1 compliant PC 97 compliant 3D texture mapping...
  • Page 10 HITE APER (cont’ d) Features Video Features: Interface VGA Feature Connector Multimedia Connector Optional Multimedia module* MPEG HW Acceleration Yes – on the optional module* Scaling Color Space Conversion Engine Acceleration: BitBLT Line Draw Polygon Autodesk Display list driver Heidi drivers support for 3D Studio Max Operating Systems Windows 95...
  • Page 11 HITE APER (cont’ d) investment protection as financial analysis application developers add 3D modeling to their environment in FY98. A low-cost / high-performance leader in this area is the ELSA GLoria Synergy. This controller is based on the new Permedia-2 graphics engine from 3Dlabs. It provides the 2D performance of a Matrox Millennium II while adding a robust 3D environment that rivals the performance of previous GLINT Delta/TX boards, such as the GLoria-L.
  • Page 12 HITE APER (cont’ d) Features Max Horizontal Scan Rate Max Pixel clock Video Features: Interface 3D Graphics Features: Integrated geometry pipeline setup processor True-color 3D graphics Polygon based with Z-buffer Texture decompression Full scene anti-aliasing Enhanced GUI Acceleration: Ultra-fast BLT engine and 2D rasterizer Stretch BLTs, monochrome/color expansion...
  • Page 13 HITE APER (cont’ d) Architecture in the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 is dual peer-PCI buses, which eliminates the potential PCI bus bottleneck to provide improved throughput and overall system performance when compared to single bus implementations. The Fire GL 4000 comes standard with 15 MB of 3D-RAM for frame buffer and Z-buffer memory, 16MB of CDRAM for texture memory, and 1 MB DRAM Frame Buffer memory for the CIRRUS Logic 5446 VGA controller.
  • Page 14 HITE APER (cont’ d) Diamond Fire GL 4000 Technical Specifications Table 6: Fire GL Technical specifications Features 3D/2D Controller VGA Controller Bus Type RAMDAC Memory Type Frame Buffer and Z-buffer Memory Amount Texture Mapping Memory Amount Memory throughput Data Path Controller Clock Speed Max Vertical Refresh Rate Max Pixel clock...

  • Page 15: Cd-Rom

    HITE APER (cont’ d) .25 - .27 mm variable aperture grille pitch Offers 85Hz refresh rates at resolutions up to 1600 x 1200. TCO 95 certified Plug and Play and Microsoft PC97 Compliant The Compaq P1610 monitor 16:10 aspect ratio 24"...

  • Page 16: Premiersound Audio

    HITE APER (cont’ d) drives where it has demonstrated excellent performance in high data transfer and fast access times. Using this technology enables reliable CD-ROM speeds above 8X. The 16X CAV CD-ROM dramatically increases the access time performance of the CD-ROM in the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000.

  • Page 17: Universal Serial Bus

    HITE APER (cont’ d) The software driver for the PremierSound audio solution is part of the standard workstation software platform that is used for all Compaq Professional Workstations. N I V E R S A L E R I A L The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 includes two Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports.
  • Page 18 HITE APER (cont’ d) Optional rack conversion kit available for the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000, which is 5U allowing for up to 8 workstations in a standard Compaq 42U rack. This provides customers with a high density, space saving solution for compute intensive applications such as a render farm for 3D animation, or analysis workstations being used for finite element analysis.

  • Page 19: Enhancements To The . . . . Workstation Software

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Diagram 6-2: Serviceable Chassis Design Speaker with audio controls mounted in front of unit 4 removable media bays are user accessible, but behind door in front bezel 5 3.5’ drive bays in bottom of unit can be upgraded to support hot-plug drives (have to open front bezel to gain...

  • Page 20: System Design

    HITE APER (cont’ d) support for Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51, and Sunsoft Solaris 2.5. Restore Mechanism -A SmartStart for Workstations CD and a Windows NT 4.0 CD are included if re-installation of the operating systems and device drivers is needed. The SmartStart for Workstation CD also includes utility software and applications for customer convenience.
  • Page 21 HITE APER (cont’ d) Optimized multiprocessing support: 1-2 Pentium II processors; 266MHz/512KB, 300MHz/512KB, 333MHz/512KB, or 333MHz/512KB (with ETR) Typical workstation designs include dual processing capabilities with a single memory controller and a single PCI bus. Under this design the processors must compete for access to the critical subsystems such as memory and hard drives.

  • Page 22: System Board

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Usage Can the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 be deployed as a server? Although several features of the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 have been leveraged from server technologies, these workstations are not supported as servers. Among the major differences between a server and these workstations are: Compaq servers support multiple network operating systems while the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 primarily support Microsoft Windows NT Workstation (with some support for Windows 95 and Solaris)

  • Page 23: Hard Drive

    AGP technology has been implemented on mainstream and high end desktop PCs to provide a low cost of texture memory for entry level 3D applications. In addition, Microsoft will not fully support AGP in Windows NT until revision 5.0.

  • Page 24: Operating Systems

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Maximum ambient temperature of 30 Maximum operational altitude of 7,500 feet. Compaq also highly recommends that adjacent bays be left empty. For example, leave Drive Bay 1 empty if Drive Bay 0 has a 10,000-rpm drive. Reason: the high performance and speed of the 10,000-rpm drive may create a thermal condition causing drive failure and data loss.
  • Page 25 SmartStart for Servers/Support Software CD or the Compaq Management CD Volume License Agreement Does Compaq provide support for HP OpenView and TME 10 NetView? Yes. Compaq recognizes the need for network and systems managers to be able to manage many heterogeneous hardware components from a central management console.
  • Page 26 HITE APER (cont’ d) Customers may refer to the "UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows NT Interoperability and Migration" whitepaper or contact the respective partner . Se the Compaq Web site at, www.compaq.com. Compaq Workstations - Key Technologies - 26 -...
  • Page 27 HITE APER (cont’ d) ISVs Who are our ISV partners? The following is a current list of our workstation ISV partners. Segment Autodesk, Bentley, EDS/Unigraphics, Intergraph Software Solutions, PTC, SDRC, Solidworks ANSYS, Fluent, MacNeal-Schwendler Corp., Mechanical Dynamics, MARC Analysis Adobe, Kinetix, Macromedia, Softimage Finance Applix, C*ATS, Infinity, MarketNet Group, NeoVision Hypersystems, Summit Systems...

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