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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. The Compaq
Professional Workstation 6000 combines powerful industry standard components, strong
partnerships with leading ISVs, and traditional Compaq quality and reliability, giving users the
time-to-market advantage they need to succeed.
Though the physical appearance of the Professional Workstation 6000 and 8000 is very similar,
they are targeted at very different markets whose computing requirements lead to some key
feature differences between the products. The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 combines
performance and expandability to meet the 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 5100. The Compaq
Professional Workstation 6000 supports up to two Pentium II 266MHz, 300MHz, 333MHz or
333MHz (with Extended Tag RAM or ETR) processors with a 512KB L2 cache. Combined with
the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture, this workstation provides customers with
industry leading system performance.
Table 2. Listing of Professional Workstation Target Market by Product
Finance
CAD
CAE
DCC
EDA
Other
4
4
4
4
4
Professional
Workstation
5100
Trading
MCAD/AEC
(2D/3D Design,
Solids modeling,
Plant design)
Graphics
design,
Animation,
Web authoring
Design entry
& editing,
Layout
Software
development
4
4
4
4
4
Professional
Workstation
6000
Trading
MCAD/ AEC
(3D Design,
Solids modeling,
Plant design, req.
fast 3D graphics)
Part and small
assembly
analysis
Animation,
Video editing,
Compositing
Place and
route,
Verification
Software
development
4
4
4
4
Professional
Workstation
8000
Risk
management;
Financial analysis
MCAD
(Large assembly
modeling and
design having
large mem. Req.)
FEA, Thermal
& vibration
analysis;
Computational
fluid dynamics
Final
rendering,
Image
processing
Synthesis,
Simulation
Geophysical
