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RSS riscThe Benefits of Using HP Integrity Servers to Consolidate HP 9000 Servers
White Paper HP has been shipping HP 9000 servers with PA-RISC microprocessors since about 1990. Several years ago HP made a strategic decision to consolidate its high performance server product line by replacing servers based on PA-RISC and Alpha chips with HP... [14 Feb 2008]
Quality Assurance Firm Builds "Future-Proof" Infrastructure
White Paper When SAI Global, an Australia-based standards and quality assurance company, began to outgrow its old HP 9000 RISC-based servers, it sought an affordable, scalable infrastructure foundation that would meet both its current and future needs. [12 Dec 2007]
HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter
An A7173A Ultra320 SCSI adapter, used in an HP entry-level or mid-range PA-RISC server, is an excellent industry-leading solution for critical SCSI storage applications. This paper provides I/O performance and CPU utilization information for the HP... [16 Nov 2004]
The Intel Itanium 2 Processor: Technology for Today's Enterprise
White Paper There are a variety of reasons why Intel's Itanium 2 processor shows dramatic growth each year while sales of its RISC competitors remain flat. One reason is that the Itanium 2 offers far more options in hardware, operating systems, and application... [04 Jun 2005]
HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter
White Paper An A7173A Ultra320 SCSI adapter, used in an HP entry-level or mid-range PA-RISC server, is an excellent industry-leading solution for critical SCSI storage applications. This paper provides I/O performance and CPU utilization information for the HP... [15 Nov 2004]
Measuring Microprocessor Muscle
White Paper Of all today's RISC architectures, only Compaq's Alpha and HP's PA-RISC have achieved superior performance for general purpose computing.This white paper describes the performance of RISC processor and compares it with ALPHA,POWER and SPARC. [24 Feb 2004]
Intel the only one for Obi Wan
News Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects studio behind the Stars Wars films, has ditched its RISC-Unix workstations from SGI in favour of Intel-based Dell systems running Linux. The move is indicative of a general shift within Hollywood... [22 Jul 2002]
Itanium 2 in the Enterprise - Suitability to Task: A Comparative Analysis of Itanium 2, Power4+ and UltraSPARC III Cu
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to compare Itanium 2 to the primary competitive RISC platforms it faces in the enterprise server market, Power4+ from IBM and UltraSPARC III Cu from Sun Microsystems. With regard to reliability, scalability and price... [03 Jul 2008]
Total Cost of Ownership for Low-End and Mid-Range Server Clusters
White Paper This paper focuses on four RISC-based and two Intel-based clusters. The RISC-based cluster brands in the study include: Compaq OpenVMS AlphaServer, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, and Sun Enterprise. The Intel-based cluster brands in the study include... [24 Feb 2004]
Agatha: an Integrated Expert System to Test and Diagnose Complex PC Boards
White Paper Agatha is an expert system to test and diagnose HP's PA-RISC processor boards, during manufacture. It has been successfully upgraded to deal with new families of PA-RISC boards. It was a joint development between HP Labs and ICBD. [24 Feb 2004]
Intel Technology-Based Hardware Provides Respected and Reliable Foundation for Systems Supporting Freight Clearance Into and Out of the United States
White Paper With the company's RISC servers nearing the end of their life cycle, GRUMA wanted a more efficient, productive, reliable, secure and cost-effective infrastructure to run its core business software, and help the company meet its business objectives... [05 May 2006]
2001, a Real-Time Processing Odyssey, Military & Aerospace Electronics
White Paper In the late 1990s, a trend emerged for implementing real-time, multi-processor digital signal processing (DSP) applications using reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chip families such as the PowerPC, R10000, and others. [03 Jul 2008]
HP launches cheapo Unix server
News The new Unix/RISC servers - 2505, 5405 and 7405 models - are essentially economy-class versions of the company's 2400, 5400 and 7400 server models. The processors in the new servers can be partitioned, or divided, so the hardware is able to run... [03 Sep 2002]
Preparing HP-UX Software for Itanium-Based Systems
White Paper The same HP-UX version will run on both PA RISC and IA-64 systems, and will be compiled from common source for compatibility. The environment (commands, utilities, user interfaces, shell scripts, and so on) will be the same on PA-RISC and IA-64... [26 Jul 2007]
HP readies Itanium part two
News The HP-UX 11i version 1.6 moves HP away from the proprietary PA-RISC processors for its servers and closer to Intel's Itanium 2, currently codenamed McKinley. Ram Appalaraju, director of marketing for HP-UX, said the latest release brought the HP... [10 Jun 2002]
