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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 ... 11BX-1199A/WWEN Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 2
trademarks of Intel Corporation. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Technologies White Paper October 1999 2 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 3
new Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. Intel® 840 Chipset Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and 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 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 4
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Base Implementation 4 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 5
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies 840 Full-Featured Implementation 5 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 6
Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Customer Benefits • Tight integration of the latest technologies to boost system performance • Faster access to data in memory • Support for the latest, fastest Intel Pentium® III Xeon™ and Pentium III processors • Support and AP550 workstations - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 7
(cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Rambus Technology Developed by Rambus, Inc. in conjunction with Intel Corporation, Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) is a new memory technology designed to keep pace with the latest high-speed microprocessors and graphics controllers. Workstation users - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 8
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Models of the Compaq Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 come standard with a oneinch 9.1-GB or 18.2-GB Ultra3 SCSI 10,000 rpm hard drive, as well as an integrated Adaptec Ultra3 SCSI - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 9
WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Customer to work in legacy ATA PCs (at legacy ATA functionality). Additionally, Ultra ATA controllers can support up to two devices. assists in troubleshooting system level problems that might result in unwarranted hard drive - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 10
Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies The technological advances that allow Ultra ATA/66 drives to perform more efficiently are: • Decreased command turnaround overhead. Ultra ATA/66 minimizes the periods during which the bus remains idle while waiting on the host PC host PC to Compaq - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 11
has integrated Alert on LAN (AoL) technologies into the 82559 Fast Ethernet controller available with the new Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter. Compaq supports both Intel's Alert on LAN and 3Com's Remote System Alert alerting technologies on new Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. 11 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 12
Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Supported Alerts The Alert on LAN solution supports the alerts listed in Table 1. Table 1. Alerts supported by the Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Alert Description Benefits BIOS Hang The NIC issues a BIOS hang alert if the PC determines - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 13
image of any Compaq Professional Workstation featuring an Intel 840 or future chipset, and an Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter). Alternatively, the latest Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter driver is available on the Compaq website at: http://www.compaq.com/support/files/desktops/us/software/1375 - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 14
Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies In an AGP architecture, the 2D or 3D graphics accelerator is placed on its own bus and given direct access to system memory put the above throughput numbers in perspective, the typical PCI bus supports a bus width of 32 bits, clocked at 33 MHz - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 15
PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies AGP Pro The latest extension to the AGP specification is AGP Pro. The AGP Pro specification defines an extended interface connection that was designed to deliver additional electrical power to workstation class graphics accelerators - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 16
available on all commercial products from Compaq including desktops, portables, and workstations. Intelligent Manageability supports a variety of the leading Updating and Management Features • Support Software CD - contains the latest drivers, flashable ROM images, and utilities • Website updates - Compaq Professional sp750 | Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key - Page 17
standard with all Compaq Professional Workstations, UNIT is available for free download from the Compaq Web site at http://www.compaq.com/products/workstations/software-platform/unattend.html. Insight Manager Lite Console Client Lite Console is an entry-level, web-based desktop management tool that
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October 1999
Prepared By
Workstation Marketing
Compaq Computer
Corporation
Contents
Introduction
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3
Intel
840 Chipset
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3
Scalable Bandwidth Features
....
3
840 Base Implementation
.........
4
840 Full-Featured
Implementation
........................
5
Customer Benefits
....................
6
Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon
Processors
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6
New Processor Features
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6
Customer Benefits
....................
6
RAMBUS Technology
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7
Customer Benefits
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7
Hard Drives
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7
Ultra3 SCSI Hard Drives
..........
7
Ultra ATA/66 Hard Drives
.......
9
Cyclical Redundancy Check
(CRC)
....................................
10
Intel PRO/100+ Management
Adapter
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11
Supported Alerts
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12
Implementation Requirements 13
AGP
..........................................
13
AGP Modes
...........................
14
AGP Pro
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15
Workstation Software Platform ..15
Interoperability
.......................
15
Intelligent Manageability
........
16
System Software Manager
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17
Unattended Network Installation
Toolkit (UNIT)
......................
17
Insight Manager Lite Console
Client
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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.