WHITE PAPER (cont’d) Compaq Workstations - Key Technologies
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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.
Software Maintenance - Keep your software up-to-date with Compaq's latest device drivers,
flashable ROM images, and utilities via both the Compaq web site and the Compaq Support
Software CD subscription service.
Intelligent Manageability - Compaq keeps you up and running, while lowering your total cost
of computing by making clients more manageable from a single point on the network. Together,
Compaq Insight Manager and Compaq System Management Partners deliver the information
required for an effective management solution. Select your mix of management tools from
industry leading management ISVs.
Interoperability - Compaq has partnered with the best ISVs in the industry to deliver high-
performance interoperability solutions for integrated UNIX, Windows NT, and Apple Macintosh
environments.
For a complete overview of the software platform, please refer to the Compaq 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 understand the
nature of the bottlenecks inherent when running complex, resource intensive
applications such as those found in CAD/CAE, EDA, and financial trading
environments. To provide a truly balanced, high performance system, we realized there
was a need to offer not only multiprocessing capabilities, but also dual memory
controllers so memory requests can be processed in parallel. In addition, dual-peer PCI
buses were implemented so I/O requests can also be processed in parallel.
The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 has been designed with the Highly Parallel
Systems Architecture to maximize system bandwidth, which improves overall system
performance. No other Intel based Windows NT system on the market today provides
this optimized architecture. Designed using industry standard components to deliver
the uncompromising performance that workstation users require, Compaq Highly
Parallel System Architecture consists of the following:
• Dual memory architecture: provides exceptional performance in resource-intensive
applications by providing 1.07GB/sec memory bandwidth: two to four times faster
than other Windows NT / X86 systems
• Dual-peer PCI buses: provides I/O bandwidth of 267MB/sec – twice that of single
bus implementations – and allow for better balanced I/O system performance
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