|
| |
| | GCC Computers Ltd. |
 | | The HP 9000 server family are World-class computing with the newest and highest-ever performance HP PA-8800 RISC processors and the HP-UX 11i v1 operating environment. | | | The Hewlett Packard (HP) Integrity server family brings you a winning combination of HP expertise in system design and the industry-leading Intel® Itanium® processor, resulting in unprecedented performance and flexibility based on industry-standards for enabling business agility and better return on IT. | | | The HP Integrity family is a key member of the broad portfolio of industry-leading HP servers for building your adaptive enterprise. |
|
http://www.gcc.com.cy/hardware.html
(586 words)
|
|
| |
| | Real World Technologies - The Looming Battle in 64 Bit Land |
| | HP is officially in the same camp as SGI in that they have announced the intention of replacing their PA-RISC family with IA-64. | | | The high end computing market is currently the exclusive reserve of 64-bit RISC processor families such as the Compaq Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, IBM Power, and Sun SPARC. | | | Curiously, both IBM and Compaq are planning the schizophrenic strategy of offering systems based on both IA-64 processors and their own respective RISC processors. |
|
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?articleid=RWT062000000000
(707 words)
|
|
| |
| | Planning the Revolution: Developing the Itanium Processor Family |
| | Discover the roots of the Intel Itanium processor family, and learn how a partnership between Intel and Hewlett-Packard yielded the next generation of processor architecture. | | | The entire previous generation PA-RISC processor chip had used only 850,000 transistors for the entire processor. | | | That there was inherent mathematical complexity in out-of-order superscalar RISC machines that would prevent them ever from sustaining over about four instruction executions per cycle in the best-case scenario. |
|
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=32053&seqNum=3
(1504 words)
|
|
| |
| | Itanium |
| | HP's DEC Alpha and PA-RISC family lines are being retired in favor of Itanium hardware. | | | Its native instruction set is the new IA-64, but it can run x86 code (slowly) in a firmware emulation mode, and has hooks for PA-RISC family migration. | | | Where the Itanium breaks with current RISC design philosophy is in how it feeds instructions into those core units. |
|
http://www.yotor.com/wiki/en/it/Itanium.htm
(1695 words)
|
|
| |
| | Hardware Considerations |
| | processor family uses a new architecture called Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC). | | | This enhancement to the typical RISC instruction set was a direct result of research by HP for a processor design optimized over the full range of technical and commercial applications. | | | It was one of the first commercially available RISC processors, including the fixed-size, hardware-inspired instructions common to RISC designs, but also including additional instructions for manipulating strings and other data types used in commercial processing. |
|
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/porting/tru64-to-hpux/CHPHRDWR.HTM
(3576 words)
|
|
| |
| | GeekCoffee Technology News and Reviews |
| | According to sources, HP is releasing its last chip in the PA/RISC family that powers its high-performance and high-availability network servers. | | | Closing out this family is part of HP's plans to move its customer base to the Itanium platform, which HP co-designed with Intel in the 1990's. | | | HP's PA/RISC chips have been powering HP Unix servers since the 1980's. |
|
http://www.geekcoffee.net/archives/2005/05/hp_releases_fin.html
(294 words)
|
|
| |
| | PA-RISC family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As the name implies, it is an implementation using a RISC design, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture. | | | One was the HP 9000 Unix workstations, designs based a proprietary HP CPU, built using a special Silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) technology, another on the Motorola 68000 family they had acquired when they purchased Apollo Computer. | | | The design is also referred to as HP/PA for Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC_family
(738 words)
|
|
| |
| | Merced Facts and Speculations |
| | By the way, Intel Corporation has a license from Advanced RISC Machines to produce, sell and enhance the StrongARM (developed by Digital Corporation, DEC has licensed the ARM architecture) microprocessor family. | | | Maybe the only example of successful commercial parallelizing (ILP) compiler today is TI`s compiler for TMS320 signal processors family. | | | Perhaps increasing of the number of functional units is not such a difficult problem for RISC processor and is not so easy for EPIC as it is assumed by EPIC/IA-64 developers. |
|
http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/Merced
(4595 words)
|
|
| |
| | OpenBSD/hppa |
| | Later on, Hewlett-Packard decided to sponsor a Linux port to the PA-RISC family, which actually resulted in some proprietary documentation being released, even though their target was a different class of 9000 machines back then. | | | One of the major direct benefits from previous porting efforts (besides the code, of course) was support for HP PA-RISC in GCC and binutils, which allowed quick building of a cross-tools environment for development. | | | In addition to the release, full snapshots are made periodically, and work is ongoing to provide better hardware support. |
|
http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html
(783 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP outlines plans for Alpha's retirement |
| | Along with Alpha, which it inherited through its merger with Compaq Computer, and its own PA-RISC family, HP has also said it will retire the Tru64 Unix operating system, another Compaq leftover, and merge its best capabilities with its own HP-UX software. | | | The company is retiring the chip, along with its PA-RISC processors, with plans to move all its higher-end servers to Intel's 64-bit Itanium family. | | | After that, by around mid-2004, HP will put the Alpha family into "maintenance mode," he said, meaning HP won't develop further versions of the chip. |
|
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/04/021204hnhpalpha.html?s=IDGNS
(1251 words)
|
|
| |
| | MSN Tech & Gadgets |
| | The Intel partnership was designed so the Itanium family would be widely used, attracting widespread support from software companies and computer makers and not being consigned to the high-end boutique niche that HP's own PA-RISC chip family occupy. | | | HP came up with the idea behind Itanium in the 1988 and in the 1990s signed a partnership under which Intel was to build and help design the chip family. | | | While HP plans to phase out its own PA-RISC processor line two generations from now, the company's two main rivals--IBM and Sun Microsystems--have their own high-end processor lines and therefore have been insulated against the problems Itanium has had getting to market. |
|
http://msn-cnet.com.com/2100-1001-984813.html
(1125 words)
|
|
| |
| | Dataquest : Top Stories : ITANIUM: Intels 64-bet |
| | The new 64-bit HP-UX 11i OS has been rebuilt from its legacy RISC OS, and is backward compatible with older HP-UX apps. | | | The intermediate transition of business apps from Intel 32-bit and RISC 64-bit server platforms to IPF is not easy, nor the outcome predictable. | | | Moreover, shipments of RISC and Intel 32-bit server platforms will continue till 2010 and beyond with IPF servers gradually increasing their share. |
|
http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/102041601.asp
(2637 words)
|
|
| |
| | Technology |
| | By contrast, HP will not only adopt Itanium family chips into its machines that compete against Sun and IBM boxes, the company will also eventually insert the chip into the superhigh-end NonStop machines that it acquired in the Compaq Computer merger. | | | The performance of the new processor family is key for HP in particular as the company places most of its eggs in the Itanium basket. | | | Flash Communications Server MX, a new addition to the MX family of Web development and server products Macromedia has built this year, is meant to further encourage Web developers to add chat, interactive video and other communications features to their sites, said Kevin Lynch, chief software architect for Macromedia, according to reports published online. |
|
http://www.weeklyholiday.net/120702/tech.html
(2614 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP announces HP-UX 11i for Itanium 2 The Register |
| | With the Itanium 2 chips, Intel has done a lot of things to boost the performance of the chips, and HP has brought its HP-UX operating system closer to parity with the version of HP-UX for its PA-RISC family of workstations and servers. | | | HP launched the first implementation of HP-UX for the Itanium family of processors in June 2001, when Intel finally started shipping the "Merced" Itanium chips, which were very late to market and, in some respects, yielded workstations and servers that did not fit the needs of companies who have been buying RISC/Unix products. | | | The initial HP-UX implementation for the Itaniums lacked a lot of features of the version of HP-UX for PA-RISC. |
|
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/10/hp_announces_hpux_11i
(1185 words)
|
|
| |
| | Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC 8800 |
| | The signals are somewhat confusing in that respect: sometimes is also stated that the PA-RISC family will stop at this latest PA-8800 chip (which we think to be more likely). | | | Like all advanced RISC processors the PA-8700(+) has out-of-order execution, the sequence of instructions being determined by the instruction reorder buffer (IRB) which contains an ALU buffer that drives the computational functional units and a memory buffer that controls the load/store units. | | | According to HP's roadmap at least one new generation of the PA-8x00 family is projected: the PA-8900 that will be on the market concurrently with the IA-64 Itanium Montecito. |
|
http://www.top500.org/ORSC/2004/pa-risc.html
(822 words)
|
|
| |
| | EnterpriseUNIX.org - Serving the Enterprise UNIX Community |
| | Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR IPF (Intel Processor Family) / PA-RISC | | | Covers the RISC characteristics of PA-RISC, PA-RISC processing resources, addressing and access control, control flow, interruptions, and an overview of the instruction set and floating point corprocessor. | | | This book is the first publicly available, detailed description of the next revision of the PA-RISC architecture. |
|
http://www.enterpriseunix.org/pages.php?page=HPUX_Publications
(660 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP 9000 server family overview |
| | The HP 9000 server family featuring the new PA-8900 processor offers a performance boost for PA-RISC customers and a springboard to standards-based computing on HP Integrity servers with in-box upgrades. | | | The HP 9000 server family features world class computing with the new HP PA-8900 processors and the proven, mission-critical ready HP-UX 11i operating system. | | | The enhanced HP 9000 family adds strength to HP's portfolio of industry-leading servers for building your adaptive enterprise and brings you a winning combination of high function features and high performance, resulting in the flexibility and power to synchronize your IT capabilities with business processes and challenges. |
|
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/HP9000_family_overview.html
(185 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP to ship powerful copper chip next year CNET News.com |
| | The 8700 is part of HP's two-pronged strategy to advance its own PA-RISC chips while adding Intel's upcoming IA-64 chip family into the HP product line. | | | HP helped develop the architecture behind the IA-64 chips but has at least two more generations of PA-RISC chips after the 8700 under design. | | | The next, McKinley, is expected a year later and is widely regarded as a more serious contender because companies will have had more time to rework hardware and software for the new design. |
|
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-239192.html?legacy=cnet
(757 words)
|
|
| |
| | PARISC-LINUX: Documentation |
| | PA8500: A 500 MHz 64 bit RISC CPU with 1.5Mbyte on chip Cache | | | Enabling Optimizations to Achieve Higher Performance on the HP PA-RISC Architecture. | | | Summary of PA-RISC architecture and implementations up to PA-8600 and features of the PA 8700 implementation. |
|
http://parisc-linux.org/documentation
(301 words)
|
|
| |
| | Chip giants reluctant to spell out plans at Microprocessor Forum - Personal Computer World |
| | However, there were a few announcements at the industry's most prestigious event, including the latest version of Hewlett-Packard's PA-Risc family. | | | Intel and HP are working together on the introduction of the P7 (Merced) processor, and sources at the company have said that Intel has two designs ready, one with backwards compatibility and one without. | | | The chip has a clock speed of 220MHz, and better cache and memory management. |
|
http://pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2088423/chip-giants-reluctant-spell-plans-mic...
(399 words)
|
|
| |
| | Encyclopedia4U - Microprocessor - Encyclopedia Article |
| | These processors are the precursors to the very successful Intel 8080, Zilog Z80, and a series of derivative Intel 8-bit processors, as well as being an ancestor of the 16-bit 8086 family which powers most modern PC type computers. | | | Intel introduced the 8086 family as a more cost effective way of porting software investments from the 8080 lines, and succeeded in winning much business on that premise. | | | Examples of early 16-bit microprocessor families include the Motorola 68000 and Zilog Z8000. |
|
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/m/microprocessor.html
(219 words)
|
|
| |
| | ESM - HP making PA-RISC processor with copper technology |
| | As part of the PA-RISC family, the PA-8700 is still a stepping stone to HP's next-generation IA-64 processor, which HP is jointly developing with Intel Corp. The PA-RISC family will continue to be developed at least through PA-8900, said Scott Stallard, vice president and general manager of HP's Business Systems and Technology Organization. | | | The RISC processor is designed to operate at and above 800 MHz. | | | LAS VEGAS — Hewlett-Packard Co. has revealed details of its 64-bit PA-8700 processor, which is expected to ship in servers and workstations in the first half of 2001. |
|
http://www.my-esm.com/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=10812051
(258 words)
|
|
| |
| | LRZ: ConvexMLIB und ConvexLAPACK |
| | ConvexMLIB is a collection of FORTRAN-callable subprograms optimized for use on the PA-RISC family of supercomputers, providing mathematical software and computational kernels for application programs involving arrays. | | | Die ConvexMLIB und ConvexLAPACK Bibliotheken sind nur an der |
|
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/software/mathematik/convexlib
(1636 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bloomsburg University Pa |
| | PA is also the short form for the Pa -RISC family processorarchitecture from Hewlett-Packard | | | 2) " University" -- in the term Bloomsburg University Pa university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. | | | PA is the IATA alpha code designator for Ps n American World Airways (Pan Am) |
|
http://www.super8filmmaking.com/tail/15793-bloomsburg-university-pa.html
(462 words)
|
|
| |
| | What’s New in HP-UX 11i? |
| | For further information on the PA-RISC processor family, visit http://www.hp.com/products1/unixservers/index.html. | | | Plans call for HP-UX to have a version available for the Itanium Processor Family (IPF) environment while still maintaining and enhancing the PA-RISC version. | | | For information on HP's new architecture Itanium processor family, visit http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/. |
|
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=25859&seqNum=9
(328 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP's third-generation 64-bit PA-8500 processor |
| | In a separate announcement, HP disclosed its long-term PA-RISC roadmap, with frequency estimates, providing an overview of future performance for the processor family. | | | These plans ensure that the PA- RISC family will continue its performance leadership well into the next century. | | | Enhancements to data pipelines and bus interfaces increase transfer rates and further optimize performance for high-end applications. |
|
http://www.hoise.com/articles/AE-PR-12-98-5.html
(274 words)
|
|
| |
| | HP sketches Itanium 2 chip set, system plans |
| | HP will deliver a dual-core PA 8800 chip that uses the Itanium 2 processor bus and runs at 1 GHz or faster next year, to be followed by the 8900, an updated version of that chip, in 2004. | | | The 64-bit Itanium family has been criticized for its poor performance on native 32-bit X86 code. | | | The PA 8900 "looks like the processor to retire the line on, so it has to last for a long time," said Crume. |
|
http://www.commsdesign.com/printableArticle?articleID=10804958
(813 words)
|
|
| |
| | Hewlett-Packard Co. |
| | This product will run on the PA-RISC family of HP Servers and Workstations and the Itanium family of HP Integrity Servers supported on HP-UX 11i version 2. | | | The approximate file size of the NSA HTTP software download for HP-UX 11i version 2 is 500 Kbytes. | | | NSA HTTP product for HP-UX 11i version 2 must be installed on HP-UX 11i version 2 system. |
|
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=NSAHTTP
(415 words)
|
|
| |
| | Electronic Engineering Times: HP taps new foundry for PA-RISC processors.(Company Business and Marketing)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Plying brute-force process-technology improvements should help HP make up for what it lacks in design-engineering resources for the PA-RISC family and move the processor line... | | | San Francisco - To pump more life into its PA-RISC processor family, Hewlett-Packard Co. has apparently switched from Intel Corp. to another foundry partner-most likely IBM Microelectronics-that is capable of making high-speed processors using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and copper interconnects. | | | The process will first be used to manufacture HP's 0.18-micron-based PA-8700 processor, set to debut this year. |
|
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:70386696&refid=holomed_1
(183 words)
|
|
|
