HP is delivering on the Compaq Alpha Server roadmap after mergerHeidelberg 21 jun 2002 Jochen Krebs started his ISC2002 talk by mentioning the recent merger between Compaq and HP. Both company presentations were programmed one right after the other to symbolise the new vendor entity which has been born out of the merging process.
The Alpha microprocessor roadmap is based on Intel architecture and represents the Alpha Server product family with the EV68C as the most recent product.
Mr. Krebs described the EV7 system as the silicon with optional RAID in memory, integrated memory controllers, integrated network interfaces, direct processor-processor interconnects (16P Torus).
The new family of AlphaServers is called Marvel. It is a full family of servers based on the EV7 and IO7 chips. With the EV7 partition, it is possible to split up the system into independent partitions.
With Marvel, Compaq achieves minimum multiprocessor interference with maximum memory bandwidth,
linear scaling, and a power of 12 GB/s per processor.
The EV7 system has 64P latency and 250ns average memory latency with 100 GB/sec bisection bandwidth. Inter-Processor delivered bandwidth is available.
Mr. Krebs announced that the EV7 will extend the EV6 core with on chip L2, two memory controllers for directly connected RDRAM memory, and glueless SMP. In addition, the EV79 will extend the EV7.
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