The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Key Technologies
incorporated into the new Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and 8000
products. This paper concentrates on covering those new features and
technologies that have unique customer benefits.
The New Compaq Professional Workstations
The Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 and 8000 are powerful, industry
standard workstations specifically designed to deliver leading performance
with
today’s demanding CAD/CAE, digital content creation, and financial
analysis applications. Along with the Compaq Professional Workstation 5000,
the new
Compaq Professional Workstations are 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 product line combining powerful industry
standard components, strong partnerships with leading ISVs, and traditional
Compaq quality and reliability, gives 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 and DCC segments who may require more expandability
than that
provided by the Compaq Professional Workstation 5000. The Compaq Professional
Workstation 6000 supports up to two Pentium II 266MHz or 300MHz
processors with a 512KB L2 cache. Combined with the Compaq Highly Parallel
System Architecture, this workstation provides customers with industry
leading
system performance.