Mid-range and high-end PA-RISC computer systems

A performance upgrade to the successful Hewlett-Packard K-series products has been designed. The new product uses the PA-8000 processor and the "Hawks" hardware platform to provide a high performance mid-range server system. The system uses parallel memory and IO systems in order to effici...

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Main Author: Elsbernd, R.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bandwidth
Control systems
Costs
Delay
Hardware
Out of order
Parallel processing
Product design
System buses
System performance
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Summary:A performance upgrade to the successful Hewlett-Packard K-series products has been designed. The new product uses the PA-8000 processor and the "Hawks" hardware platform to provide a high performance mid-range server system. The system uses parallel memory and IO systems in order to efficiently utilize the processing power provided by the PA-8000 processor. The superscalar speculative and out of order execution capabilities of the PA-8000, coupled with Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) dictates the need for the parallelism designed into the system. At the same time, it is important to ensure a cost effective system design. Described in this paper is the architecture of the new Mohawk product within the Hawks family of products.
ISSN:1063-6390
2375-0960
DOI:10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501763