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HP chip team sets up home at Intel
News In that market, HP primarily markets servers based on its PA-RISC chips, but the company plans to migrate to the Itanium family over the next few years. Itanium servers are designed to compete against large Unix/RISC servers from Sun Microsystems.
[September 14, 2001, 10:49]
IS looking forward to LinuxWorld
News The PA-RISC support is unique in that HP is relying on an independent entity, The Puffin Group, to develop Linux-based PA-RISC servers. For systems, the Californian company plans to add Linux support to its PA-RISC high-end servers to complement...
[March 1, 1999, 15:02]
WLMTK Overview: Using HP-UX Workload Manager Effectively With Your Most Critical Applications
White Papers This paper discusses the toolkits available with WLMTK A.01.10, which runs on PA-RISC servers (HP 9000) running HP-UX 11i v1 or later or on PA-RISC or Intel Itanium-based servers running HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) or later.
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
News While Intel-based servers are generally less expensive than Unix-RISC-based servers, Gibbs asserted that the conversion is taking place because the performance gap between the two types of setups has largely been erased, and even reversed for...
[February 10, 2003, 8:56]
Intel set to rattle server market with Itanium
News For HP, IBM and Compaq, all of which offer both Intel and RISC-based workstations and servers, this will require product line juggling. Itanium systems are expected to cost less than traditional Unix servers or workstations, including those based...
[May 25, 2001, 15:54]
Chip wars: Now it's best of three
News The company has been selling Unix servers since 1999 that can accommodate second-generation Itanium chips, and the last PA-RISC design, the 8900, is scheduled to be released in 2004, said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager for HP servers.
[June 26, 2001, 10:27]
Hewlett-Packard outlines Nimbus
News Migration costs are a big concern for HP as it tries to steer Unix customers with servers based on HP's PA-RISC processor to the new HP Itanium-based Integrity line. If you can take an HP-UX application running on PA-RISC today, plug in an Itanium...
[November 10, 2003, 11:15]
Itanium's friends get together to push adoption
News HP - the server maker that has pushed the chip most aggressively - sold $108m in Itanium-based Unix servers in the second quarter of 2005, compared with $1.1bn in the PA-RISC-based Unix servers (£59.9m and £610m respectively) they're intended to...
[August 31, 2005, 13:30]
HP washes its hands of Itanium development
News PA-RISC chips, which compete against IBM's Power4 and Sun's UltraSparc processors, are homegrown RISC processors for high-end servers. Although HP will stop coming out with new versions of Alpha and PA-RISC chips, it will continue to sell new...
[December 16, 2004, 8:20]
Is there a supercomputer in your future?
News Intel may well have near-total dominance of the market for low-end departmental and applications servers, and the vast majority of analysts and pundits may be predicting that Intel will take over from the established RISC-based Unix servers, but...
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
'Star Wars' effects studio shifts to Intel
News In "Shrek", for instance, DreamWorks studio used Linux/Intel servers to render the skeletal images for the movie, but then used SGI-RISC workstations for much of the final animation. The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix...
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
HP and Sun intensify war of words
News HP is encouraging its HP-UX customers to move from PA-RISC servers to those using Intel's Itanium over a period of years. HP-UX, by contrast, runs only on PA-RISC and Itanium servers. Sun argues that HP is abandoning those customers by cancelling...
[October 5, 2004, 9:20]
64-bit Itanium to land this month
News They will be [priced] significantly higher than typical [Intel] servers but less than a RISC offering, " Hudson added. The chip, and computers containing it, will compete against more expensive Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) servers and...
[May 11, 2001, 13:59]
HP hires Linux luminary
News HP was among the first to support Linux for its Intel-based servers, but it has been working to bring it to its PA-RISC-based machines for months. The PA-RISC-based products using Linux are slated for release in March 2001, Balma said.
[December 5, 2000, 14:26]
Sun, HP speed Unix servers
News Its midrange Unix servers with four, eight or 16 processors are now available with the PA-RISC 8700+, an 875MHz chip that the company introduced in its top-end Superdome servers. Unix server seller after Sun, is upgrading its two Unix server lines...
[August 6, 2002, 8:26]
Dell woos Internet startups
News But Dell, along with several computer makers, is counting on Microsoft's new Windows 2000 operating software to expand the ability of PC servers to compete for jobs once reserved for high-powered computers that use the Unix operating system and...
[February 7, 2000, 15:31]
Sun and Fujitsu merge Sparc lines
News Sun's UltraSparc chips, one of several RISC (reduced instruction set computing) models on the market, have seen major competition from more mainstream Intel processors, such as Xeon. The "next-generation APL microprocessor.will bring new meaning to...
[June 2, 2004, 8:40]
HP plans to upgrade Integrity server line
News A 76 percent increase in revenue for its Integrity servers was not enough to offset the declines with PA-RISC and Alpha. The Montecito delay came at an awkward time for HP, which is dropping its earlier Unix server processors, PA-RISC and Alpha...
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
Servers to show modest growth
News Now the RISC-Unix systems are being disrupted by the arrival of Intel systems running Windows and Linux, Melenovsky said. In the early 1990s, mainframes and minicomputers were disrupted by the arrival of Unix systems with the new class of RISC...
[May 27, 2003, 8:00]
IBM outlines Power7 chip plan
News This seems like an extremely defensive move from IBM, and it shows that x86 and Nehalem are making it increasingly difficult for the Unix Risc vendors to differentiate themselves," said Phil Dawson, a vice-president of research with Gartner Group.
[July 22, 2009, 7:12]
