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How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips

...by paying HP $100,000 to evaluate building the system using its PA-RISC processors, said Paul Prince, now Dell's chief technology officer for... Read more

24 September, 2009 by Stephen Shankland

Integrity gets a kick in the Arches

...Martull said. HP is partway through a long transition from its own PA-RISC processors to Itanium chips. The PA line ran only HP-UX... Read more

20 March, 2006 by Colin Barker and Stephen Shankland

AlphaServer users given lifeline till Itanium

...company's leading RISC processor, the others being HP's home-grown PA-RISC chip and the MIPS processor used in the Tandem NonStop systems... Read more

21 January, 2003 by Peter Judge

HP gives Alpha one last gasp

...would debut in late 2002. HP is retiring Alpha, along with its PA-RISC processor, in favour of building systems using Intel's Itanium chip... Read more

6 December, 2002 by Ian Fried

Unix server battle heats up

...Unix: Power4 and AIX for IBM, UltraSparc and Solaris for Sun, and PA-RISC and HP-UX for HP. They also boast partitioning abilities. Partitioning... Read more

16 April, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

HP fighting back in Unix server wars

...its 64-processor Superdome with a 128-processor goliath using HP's PA-RISC 8800 chips, said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager for HP's... Read more

26 October, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Intel and Stratus ally against Unix servers

...emergency call centers or banks. Stratus has traditionally used Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC chips, but the company is banking on a new line of... Read more

19 June, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Merced: Our industry expects...

Intel's Pentium III may have got a lukewarm welcome, but Merced -- its 64-bit high-end engine -- is expected to be a pivotal step in the chip behemoth's roadmap. Read more

17 March, 1999 by Chiyo Robertson
Failover of Oracle Database Between HP 9000 (<endeca_term>PA-RISC</endeca_term>) Servers and HP Integrity (IPF) Servers Under HP-UX 11i

Failover of Oracle Database Between HP 9000 (PA-RISC) Servers and HP Integrity (IPF) Servers Under HP-UX 11i

...based Integrity architecture was designed to employ the same data format as PA-RISC-based HP 9000 architecture, which gives rise to all manner of... Read more

1 July, 2009

HP plans 16-way RISC server

...current workhorse of the product line, will be upgraded with the coming PA-RISC 8700 chip, according to Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager for the... Read more

8 March, 2001 by Stephen Shankland
Oracle Database Migration Between HP 9000 and HP Integrity Platforms Under HP-UX 11i

Oracle Database Migration Between HP 9000 and HP Integrity Platforms Under HP-UX 11i

Migration of an Oracle database in either direction between a PA-RISC-based HP 9000 server and an Intel Itanium-based HP Integrity... Read more

1 July, 2009
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Vs. Windows Server 2008

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Vs. Windows Server 2008

...longer, RISC/UNIX platforms, such as AIX on Power, HP-UX on PA-RISC and Solaris on SPARC, have established a history of solid reliability... Read more

1 March, 2009
Sybase ASE High Availability Configuration on HP-UX

Sybase ASE High Availability Configuration on HP-UX

...SG) software is used to create high availability clusters on HP 9000 PA-RISC systems and Intel Itanium-based HP Integrity systems running HP-UX... Read more

1 September, 2008
Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade and Platform Migration Guide: Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX Integrity

Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade and Platform Migration Guide: Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX Integrity

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 fully supports HP 9000 (PA-RISC) and HP Integrity (Intel Itanium) systems running HP-UX 11i. However... Read more

1 June, 2008

Taking Linux off the Intel-only path

...non-Intel processors. The Puffin Group, for instance, is porting Linux to PA-RISC so that HP 9000 server users can run Linux applications. And... Read more

30 March, 2000 by John McCright

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