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HP releases budget-minded Unix servers
News The processors in the new servers can be partitioned, or divided, so the hardware is able to run different applications and operating systems and can accommodate other PA-RISC or Itanium chips. The new Unix/RISC servers -- 2505, 5405 and 7405...
[September 3, 2002, 7:55]
HP Integrity Servers Help Keep Planes and Passengers in the Air
White Papers Working together with HP, Lufthansa Systems consolidated the 18 old PA-RISC machines down to two HP Integrity Business Critical Servers (BCS). It transitioned LTL from PA-RISC to Itanium. Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH (LTL) supplies Maintenance...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
US Report: HP describes plans for first IA-64 chip set
News Beginning sometime next year, HP will begin shipping PA-RISC and Intel-based systems with a motherboard that will also be used in Merced-based systems when the chip is available in mid-2000. As it works toward its long-term strategy of...
[October 13, 1998, 17:27]
HP drops price of Unix servers
News The systems bring the new PA-RISC 8700 chip to HP's low-end Unix servers, and the cheapest model has a starting price of less than $1,000. The rp2430 accommodates only one 650MHz PA-RISC 8700 CPU (central processing unit), whereas the rp2470 can...
[March 7, 2002, 11:41]
HP boosts Unix for Itanium
News The ability to run programs written for PA-RISC chips without any changes through translation software called Aries. The HP-UX 11i version 1.6, available in the third week of July, will bring HP's Itanium version of Unix closer to parity with the...
[June 10, 2002, 9:58]
Processor speeds up HP's Unix servers
News It has used HP's PA-RISC 8700 processors running at 750MHz, but a new model now shipping is equipped with 875MHz 8700+ processors, HP will announce on Monday. Two more generations of PA-RISC are still in the works as well.
[June 24, 2002, 8:49]
How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
News Intel ultimately met that 1-teraflop performance deadline using its own chips, HP dropped its PA-RISC line in favour of Intel's Itanium processor line, and the Pentium Pro paved the way for the company's present powerhouse status in the server...
[September 24, 2009, 13:51]
sx2000 Chipset
White Papers In addition, with the planned support of the PA-8900 RISC processors on the sx2000 chipset, HP Itanium 2 9M processors and PA-8900 RISC processors will be able to concurrently operate in an Integrity Superdome in separate hard partitions.
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
HP chip team sets up home at Intel
News At HP, the group worked on chipsets that could be used with PA-RISC or Itanium processors. These engineers will likely transfer, although HP will probably keep its PA-RISC team in-house. In that market, HP primarily markets servers based on its PA...
[September 14, 2001, 10:49]
Merced: The scare stories
News Furthermore, if you are currently running HP-UX on a PA-RISC based system the good news is that you too will be able to run all of your existing software on systems using the Merced chip. Lynley Gwennap, vice president of the US chip analyst...
[March 16, 1999, 16:49]
IS looking forward to LinuxWorld
News For systems, the Californian company plans to add Linux support to its PA-RISC high-end servers to complement previously announced plans for Linux on its NetServers and on Intel's 64-bit IA-64 platform.
[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]
HP gives Alpha one last gasp
News HP is retiring Alpha, along with its PA-RISC processor, in favour of building systems using Intel's Itanium chip, which is based on an architecture HP helped develop. However, HP is betting big that Itanium sales will replace the business HP will...
[December 6, 2002, 8:20]
AlphaServer users given lifeline till Itanium
News However, Alpha remains the 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 bought by Compaq. Clusters will work with PA RISC, as well as older system...
[January 21, 2003, 8:45]
HP doubles up Itanium processors
News Although it is essentially just a component, the mx2 board is a key part of HP's strategy to provide an upgrade path to customers currently on PA-RISC, as well as those just looking for more performance from their existing Itanium systems.
[May 5, 2004, 14:10]
HP fills gap in Itanium line
News CitiStreet switched to the HP Unix line in 2001 from IBM mainframes, has upgraded them through several PA-RISC processor generations, and now will perform the "brain transplant" move to Itanium, chief information officer Barry Strasnick said.
[November 3, 2003, 10:25]
Sun, HP take on Squadron
News HP has doubling technology of its own, both with its in-house PA-RISC processors and Intel's Itanium processor, which HP co-designed. The PA-RISC line will get its first dual-core model with the PA-8800, code-named "Mako," and with an HP packaging...
[May 16, 2003, 12:16]
HP puts beef into new Unix server
News In the future, HP will also come out with circuit boards that will allow owners to adopt future PA-RISC or Intel Itanium processors. The HP rp8400 will become the company's principal offering in the midrange Unix/RISC server market and replace the...
[September 19, 2001, 9:11]
Integrity gets a kick in the Arches
News HP is partway through a long transition from its own PA-RISC processors to Itanium chips. For example, HP-UX on Itanium is now more advanced than on PA-RISC, with the ability to carve out operating systems partitions that use only a fraction of one...
[March 20, 2006, 14:00]
Analyst urges caution on Madison
News HP, co-creator of the Itanium, is using it to gradually replace its own PA-RISC processor. Those looking to Hewlett-Packard's announcement of the first version of the HP-UX operating system for Itanium 2 should also be aware that not all HP-UX...
[July 21, 2003, 14:55]
