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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

Ultra3 SCSI Hard Drives ..........7
Ultra ATA/66 Hard Drives .......9
Cyclical Redundancy Check
(CRC) ....................................10

Intel PRO/100+ Management
Adapter......................................11

Supported Alerts ....................12
Implementation Requirements 13

AGP ..........................................13

AGP Modes ...........................14
AGP Pro ................................15

Workstation Software Platform ..15

Interoperability.......................15
Intelligent Manageability ........16
System Software Manager ......17
Unattended Network Installation
Toolkit (UNIT) ......................17
Insight Manager Lite Console
Client.....................................17

Compaq Professional Workstation
SP750 and AP550 Key
Technologies White Paper

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Key Technologies
incorporated into the new Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and
AP550 models. This paper concentrates on covering those features and
technologies that have unique customer benefits. The objective is to provide
the technical information and benefits of these features.

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Page 1: ...t Adapter 11 Supported Alerts 12 Implementation Requirements 13 AGP 13 AGP Modes 14 AGP Pro 15 Workstation Software Platform 15 Interoperability 15 Intelligent Manageability 16 System Software Manager 17 Unattended Network Installation Toolkit UNIT 17 Insight Manager Lite Console Client 17 Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper The purpose of this paper is to ...

Page 2: ...ng herein should 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 tested or described may or may not be the only available solution This test is not a determination of product quality of correctness nor does it ensure compliance with any federal state or ...

Page 3: ...tation applications by providing new levels of performance scalability and end user productivity The Scalable Bandwidth Technology design philosophy is similar in concept to an enhanced version of the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture HPSA design implemented on the Compaq Professional Workstation SP700 Scalable Bandwidth Features Support for up to 4 GB of memory AGP 4X providing 1 GB s of...

Page 4: ...WHITE PAPER cont d Compaq Professional Workstation Key Technologies 4 840 Base Implementation ...

Page 5: ...WHITE PAPER cont d Compaq Professional Workstation Key Technologies 5 840 Full Featured Implementation ...

Page 6: ...e reduced latency interface to the cache data and 11 7 GB s maximum bandwidth on Level 2 cache transfers at 733 MHz core frequency Advanced system buffering six fill buffers providing a 50 increase in concurrent nonblocking data cache operations eight bus queue entries allow more outstanding memory bus operations and four writeback buffers that reduce blocking during cache replacement operations a...

Page 7: ...s Provides headroom to accommodate the fast memory requests of increasingly powerful processors Hard Drives There are two primary interfaces between the drive and the workstation system bus available for drives today Ultra ATA and SCSI Compaq offers the highest performance hard drives available and the choice of Ultra3 SCSI and Ultra ATA 66 Ultra3 SCSI Hard Drives Ultra3 SCSI is the newest generat...

Page 8: ...ns 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 Note Ultra3 may also be referred to as Ultra160M in the industry Some vendors have chosen the Ultra160M to identify the next generation of SCSI technology Compaq has chosen to refer to it as Ultra3 0 40 80 120 160 MB sec UDMA 33MB sec U...

Page 9: ...le to ATA Now there is Ultra ATA 66 which doubles the burst transfer rate again to 66 MB s and is still backward compatible to ATA Ultra ATA 66 models implement legacy data transfer protocols that allow them to work in legacy ATA PCs at legacy ATA functionality Additionally Ultra ATA controllers can support up to two devices The Ultra ATA technology also delivers improved data integrity through im...

Page 10: ...extra dollars in converting to 7200 rpm drives in 1999 The combination of faster spin speed and other advantages of 7200 rpm class drives will generally improve overall drive performance by 20 Additionally customers who choose to standardize on longer lasting technology will want to invest in 7200 rpm drives considering 5400 rpm drives will phase out more quickly Customer Benefits Faster and large...

Page 11: ...etwork administrators to respond to events such as boot failure overheating tampering or theft proactively before significant PC damage or loss can occur The Network Interface Controller NIC is playing an increasingly significant role in the delivery of alerting capabilities New NIC specific alerting technologies allow the NIC to receive event information from the PC identify a particular event an...

Page 12: ...ponse to specific thermal problems minimizes damage and downtime caused by overheating Chassis Intrusion The NIC issues a chassis intrusion alert if someone removes the PC s cover hood and activates the hood sensor switch NOTE Even if disconnected from utility power the PC can store a chassis intrusion event When power is restored the NIC issues the appropriate alert Enables a quick response to th...

Page 13: ... 1997 AGP has become an industry standard as Intel has placed significant technical and marketing efforts behind this technology Many vendors began to deliver this technology when Intel introduced the enabling technology with its 440LX AGPset designed for Pentium II processors however the benefits of AGP were not realized immediately as some of the underlying infrastructure and support were not av...

Page 14: ...n needed Finally the removal of the graphics accelerator from the PCI bus increases the bandwidth for other devices on the PCI bus increasing overall system performance AGP Modes Currently there are three data transfer rates supported by AGP all AGP modes support a 32 bit wide bus with a 66 MHz bus clock These data transfer rates are theoretical maximums AGP 1X Mode which yields 264 MB second thro...

Page 15: ... NLX is not defined One additional point of note is that an AGP graphics accelerator can be supported in an AGP Pro slot however an AGP Pro graphics accelerator cannot be supported in an AGP slot Workstation Software Platform Interoperability Customers who have already made the move to Windows NT or are planning to can be assured that Compaq s Interoperability Program provides seamless integration...

Page 16: ...d for Management Intel led industry initiative to make Intel architecture based systems universally manageable and universally managed includes asset management network boot power management Fault Notification and Recovery Features ECC Memory check and corrects 1 bit errors Pre failure Warranty alerts user before component fails covers processors hard drives and memory SMART hard drives Self Monit...

Page 17: ...ion via a logon script software distribution application email or local execution from a CD Unattended Network Installation Toolkit UNIT Compaq provides an open customizable free toolkit called UNIT that allows customers to distribute unique software solutions across hundreds of systems in as little as an hour UNIT simplifies and automates deployment of applications drivers upgrades etc over the n...

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