Wave Issue 9092 9/29/99 Article 5-01

***HP Delivers 64-Bit Four-Way Technical Workstation
(September 22)

Hewlett-Packard Company introduced the HP VISUALIZE J7000 - a
high-performance four-way symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP)
system featuring an 8GB RAM memory capacity.

The HP VISUALIZE J7000, the newest member of HP's PA-8500-based
HP VISUALIZE Workstation family, takes workstation memory and
performance capacity to a new level for engineers who have been
reaching system limits in advanced electronic design automation
(EDA) and mechanical design automation (MDA) applications. Its
memory capacity transforms a standalone workstation into a
workgroup-capable system - improving throughput for design
verification, simulation, analysis and device modeling.

The HP VISUALIZE J7000, with full support for kernel threads in a
64-bit operating system, handles large, complex designs and
require memory capacities that quickly exceed the scope of
conventional workstations.

For EDA applications, multimillion transistor integrated circuits
(ICs) in deep submicron and system-on-a-chip designs routinely
require memory in excess of 4GB. These applications depend on
robust, reliable performance and 64-bit functionality. HP has
delivered a true 64-bit operating system, and it continues to
innovate solutions that deliver peak performance for a variety of
the most complex EDA applications.

Today, there are more than a dozen EDA applications compiled for
64-bit HP-UX, including Mentor Graphics Calibre and Avant!
Hercules-II. In addition, several software vendors have
parallelized applications on HP-UX that can take advantage of the
four-way HP VISUALIZE J7000, including Synopsys Arcadia, Silvaco
SmartSpice and Simplex Fire & Ice.

In the MCAE market, mechanical analysis and verification
applications such as virtual prototyping and compute-intensive
crash-simulation demand the computation of large sets of data.
These applications are common in the automotive and aerospace
industries. Now, with four-way processing and massive memory, the
HP VISUALIZE J7000 manages high-end applications from the
deskside. In addition, for design teams of 25 to 35 engineers,
the HP VISUALIZE J7000 serves as an ideal and convenient product
data management (PDM) system.

The HP VISUALIZE J7000 workstation is available in configurations
ranging from entry-level 2-D HP VISUALIZE EG graphics to the most
advanced configurations with HP VISUALIZE fx6 Pro graphics. A
typical entry-level configuration, including 4GB RAM, 18GB disk,
monitor and VISUALIZE EG graphics is less than $50,000.