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April 1998

Prepared By
Workstation Marketing

Compaq Computer

Corporation

Contents

The New Compaq
Professional
Workstations .................. 3

Compaq highly Parallel
System Architecture ....... 4

Processor Technologies . 6

Pentium II....................... 7

Graphics ........................ 8

16X Maximum IDE
CD-ROM ........................ 15

24X Maximum IDE
CD-ROM ........................ 16

PremierSound Audio......16

Universal Serial Bus
(USB) ............................ 17

Chassis and
Serviceability Features ..17

Enhancements to the
Workstation Software
Platform ........................ 19

Compaq Professional
Workstation Software
Platform ........................ 19

Questions and Answers .20

The Compaq Professional Workstation
6000 Key Technologies White Paper

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Key Technologies incorporated
into The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000. This paper concentrates on covering
those new features and technologies that have unique customer benefits. The objective is
to provide the technical information and benefits of these features, so that geographic
regions can market them successfully.

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Summary of Contents for Microcom 6000

Page 1: ...Enhancements to the Workstation Software Platform 19 Compaq Professional Workstation Software Platform 19 Questions and Answers 20 The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 Key Technologies White Paper...

Page 2: ...be construed as constituting a further or additional warranty This publication does not constitute an endorsement of the product or products that were tested The configuration or configurations teste...

Page 3: ...needs of a broad set of users In particular it is targeted at users in the CAD CAE DCC and EDA segments who may require more expandability than that provided by the Compaq Professional Workstation 51...

Page 4: ...Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 addresses the need for greater overall system bandwidth by using dual memory controllers dual peer PCI buses and advanced multiprocessing support Diagram 1 The Com...

Page 5: ...Dual Peer PCI Buses Optimized Multiprocessing Support Finally with dual memory controllers and dual peer PCI buses the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 is able to deliver optimized multiprocessing...

Page 6: ...hich instructions are dependent on each other s results or data This technique allows an optimized schedule of instructions to be created so they can be processed in the most efficient order Speculati...

Page 7: ...R versus 200MHz for the Pentium Pro a single processor Pentium II system will outperform a single processor Pentium Pro system in most applications The new design also places some limitations on scala...

Page 8: ...000 uses the high performance REALimage rendering engine from Evans and Sutherland along with specialized graphics memory from Mitsubishi This controller comes standard with the maximum memory configu...

Page 9: ...920 x 1200 75Hz Memory expandability up to 16MB WRAM for higher 3D resolution Bus mastering with scatter gather to free up the CPU for other processing tasks and improve overall system performance in...

Page 10: ...t on performance and makes it far slower than a hardware based implementation The Millennium II 3D graphics capabilities make it appropriate for 3D games viewing 3D web sites and entry level CAD where...

Page 11: ...ports up to 4 displays using multiple controllers depending on slot availability Uses 3Dlabs Permedia 2 processor for highly integrated 2D and robust 3D rendering requirements Comes standard with 8MB...

Page 12: ...Limage rendering technology from Evans Sutherland to deliver a very high level of 3D performance It provides hardware acceleration for OpenGL 1 0 NT 3 51 only OpenGL 1 1 NT 4 0 only and HEIDI NT 3 51...

Page 13: ...for software developers building interactive media programs and games Fire GL 4000 support for this API under Windows 95 will be provided at a later date Heidi 3D API from Kinetix an AutoDesk company...

Page 14: ...es Yes Yes Yes Yes Operating Systems Windows NT 3 51 4 0 Windows 95 Available at a later date Monitors The recommended monitors for Professional Workstations are the Compaq P75 17 P110 21 and P1610 24...

Page 15: ...Arm Mount Wall mountable The Compaq TFT450 Space Saving and Lightweight Weighs 13 5 pounds with base with a 2 8 thick panel Thin Film Transistor TFT active matrix screen Brightness of 185 nits offers...

Page 16: ...time performance of the CD ROM in the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 Technical Specifications Access Time Average 80 MS Transfer Rate 3600 KB second MAX PREMIERSOUND AUDIO The Compaq Profession...

Page 17: ...rmines what host resource each peripheral need including driver software and bus bandwidth and makes those resources available without user intervention Currently there are different ways to implement...

Page 18: ...Removable I O cage Access to the PCI and ISA slots is done easily with access from the top by removing the small access panel or access from the back of the workstation Access from the back of the wo...

Page 19: ...oftware area on the Workstation web site http www compaq com products workstations software platform index html COMPAQ PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATION SOFTWARE PLATFORM Software Tools and Solutions To Meet Y...

Page 20: ...aq Web site www compaq com APPENDIX QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS System Design Q What is Compaq Highly Parallel Systems Architecture A Compaq s Workstation engineers did extensive application profiling to un...

Page 21: ...y Compaq has announced its Multiprocessing MP Initiative through which we are working with ISVs and Intel in various target market segments to help take full advantage of the multiprocessing capabilit...

Page 22: ...plemented on the Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 to enable the Highly Parallel System Architecture Q Will Compaq continue to support the RCC chipset in future workstation products A Compaq will c...

Page 23: ...ch main memory can be used as texture memory The ELSA GLoria XL card supports up to 40MB of texture memory on the graphics controller card itself providing a fast local source of memory for high perfo...

Page 24: ...SunSoft SunSoft No Q Does Compaq Provide Multi Processor Operating System Support for the Professional Workstation 6000 A Yes Compaq provides one of two versions of Windows NT 4 0 depending on the num...

Page 25: ...ment of Compaq Workstations Servers Desktops and Portables Interoperability Q How will Compaq ensure that new products fit in today s heterogeneous environments A Compaq has announced Phase I of a pro...

Page 26: ...d Compaq Workstations Key Technologies 26 A Customers may refer to the UNIX Macintosh and Windows NT Interoperability and Migration whitepaper or contact the respective partner Se the Compaq Web site...

Page 27: ...al Schwendler Corp Mechanical Dynamics MARC Analysis DCC Adobe Kinetix Macromedia Softimage Finance Applix C ATS Infinity MarketNet Group NeoVision Hypersystems Summit Systems EDA Mentor Graphics View...

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