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HP Compaq SP750 Supplementary Manual

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October 1999
Prepared By
Workstation Marketing
Compaq Computer
Corporation
Contents
Introduction .................................3
Intel 840 Chipset.......................3
Implementation ........................5
Customer Benefits....................6
Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon
Processors....................................6
Customer Benefits....................6
RAMBUS Technology .................7
Customer Benefits....................7
Hard Drives .................................7
(CRC) ....................................10
Intel PRO/100+ Management
Adapter......................................11
Supported Alerts ....................12
AGP ..........................................13
AGP Modes ...........................14
AGP Pro ................................15
Interoperability.......................15
Toolkit (UNIT) ......................17
Insight Manager Lite Console
Client.....................................17
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    October 1999 Prepared By Workstation Marketing Compaq Computer Corporation Contents Introduction ...3 Intel 840 Chipset...3 Scalable Bandwidth Features ...3 840 Base Implementation ...4 840 Full-Featured Implementation ...5 Customer Benefits...6 Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon Processors...6 New Processor Features...6 Customer Benefits...6 RAMBUS Technology ...7 Customer Benefits...7 Hard Drives ...7...
  • Page 2 HITE APER (cont’ d) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 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.

  • Page 3: Introduction

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Introduction Compaq Professional Workstations are high performance workstations that provide exceptional price/performance and scalability for technical and creative professional customers. Customer market segments include: Financial trading or analysis Computer aided design (CAD) Computer-aided engineering (CAE) Digital content creation (DCC) Electronic design automation (EDA) Software development Geographical information systems (GIS)

  • Page 4: 840 Base Implementation

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Base Implementation...

  • Page 5: 840 Full-Featured

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Full-Featured Implementation...

  • Page 6: Customer Benefits

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Customer Benefits Tight integration of the latest technologies to boost system performance Faster access to data in memory Support for the latest, fastest Intel Pentium III Xeon and Pentium III processors Support for the latest and future enhanced 3D graphics controllers with APG Pro Double the peak bandwidth of the previous AGP 2X with AGP 4X For more information about the 840 chipset, visit the Intel web site at: http://www.intel.com/ Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon Processors...

  • Page 7: Rambus Technology

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Rambus Technology Developed by Rambus, Inc. in conjunction with Intel Corporation, Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) is a new memory technology designed to keep pace with the latest high-speed microprocessors and graphics controllers. Workstation users demand the ability to quickly and easily navigate tremendous amounts of information, including complex graphics and multimedia content.
  • Page 8 HITE APER (cont’ d) Models of the Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 come standard with a one- inch 9.1-GB or 18.2-GB Ultra3 SCSI 10,000 rpm hard drive, as well as an integrated Adaptec Ultra3 SCSI controller. Ultra3 SCSI is backward-compatible with all previous versions of SCSI. When an Ultra3 drive is installed on a previous-version (Ultra2 or Wide-Ultra, for example) SCSI bus, performance defaults to the specifications of that bus.

  • Page 9: Ultra Ata/66 Hard Drives

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Customer Benefits Maximum burst rate is doubled. Ultra3 SCSI features a 160 MB per second burst rate, compared to Wide Ultra2 SCSI’ s 80 MB per second. This saves time through faster performance in some applications where the SCSI bus is the bottleneck. In multiple disk configurations, significant gains are evident where large blocks of data are sequentially accessed.

  • Page 10: Cyclical Redundancy Check

    HITE APER (cont’ d) The technological advances that allow Ultra ATA/66 drives to perform more efficiently are: Decreased command turnaround overhead. Ultra ATA/66 minimizes the periods during which the bus remains idle while waiting on the host PC to issue commands to the hard drive. Because the effective data transfer rate equals the burst transfer rate minus the command turnaround time, improvements in command turnaround overhead will increase overall performance.

  • Page 11: Intel Pro/100+ Management Adapter

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Increasingly, personal computer (PC) manufacturers are equipping PCs with the capability to generate remote system alerts. Components within these PCs or, in some cases, the PCs themselves feature the intelligence required to identify local problems proactively and issue alerts that report these problems to a centralized management console.

  • Page 12: Supported Alerts

    HITE APER (cont’ d) Supported Alerts The Alert on LAN solution supports the alerts listed in Table 1. Table 1. Alerts supported by the Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Alert Description BIOS Hang The NIC issues a BIOS hang alert if the PC determines that the system BIOS has hung up during POST.

  • Page 13: Implementation Requirements

    The user should download the server-side software utility (proxy) from the Compaq website at Management console Support for NIC-based alerts is restricted to a few applications such as HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.x and Intel LANDesk Client Manager 6.x and the future release of Compaq Insight Manager.

  • Page 14: Agp Modes

    HITE APER (cont’ d) In an AGP architecture, the 2D or 3D graphics accelerator is placed on its own bus and given direct access to system memory. The real features of AGP allow for highly pipelined data transfers between the graphics accelerator and system memory; providing much higher sustained bandwidths in comparison to the PCI bus.

  • Page 15: Agp Pro

    Once the right set of tools have been selected from Compaq's Interoperability ISVs, the ability to access networked information from the Windows NT desktop includes the following application examples: UNIX applications, UNIX OpenGL 3D applications, IBM applications, and files resident on UNIX network File System (NFS).

  • Page 16: Intelligent Manageability

    It is available on all commercial products from Compaq including desktops, portables, and workstations. Intelligent Manageability supports a variety of the leading third-party management solutions, such as Unicenter TNG, HP OpenView, Microsoft SMS, Novell ManageWise, and BMC Patrol.

  • Page 17: System Software Manager

    Insight Manager Lite Console Client Lite Console is an entry-level, web-based desktop management tool that allows the user to view system information, receive alerts, run diagnostics, update system software, and change security settings. It is the industry’s first integrated tool for easily managing work groups of PCs and workstations.

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