Publisher Summary#R##N#This chapter presents an architectural overview of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Exemplar V-Class Technical Server. The Exemplar Technical Servers from HP address major computing challenges like compute, file, product data management, storage and intranet applications, and range from the entry-level systems to the high-end supercomputing level systems. The systems of the Exemplar product line possess very high scalability in terms of performance and the ability to provide consistent price/performance over the entire range of each product line. They also possess consistent programming model. All of these systems, regardless of the performance levels, present the same application programming environment. The first generation, the Exemplar SPPlx00 family with the models SPP1000, SPP1200, SPP1600, pioneered the use of a highly scalable operating system combined with a global shared memory (GSM) programming environment. The V-Class offers improved performance by employing the PA8200 processor, HP’s latest RISC CPU, and increased functionality by running native HP-UX 11.0, a full 64-bit implementation of UNIX. HP’s PA-8200 processor that delivers currently 800 MFLOPS (millions of floating operations per second) at 200 MHz is used in the Exemplar V-Class server. This processor offers up to 4-way superscalar processing yielding 4 operations per clock.
['Frank P.E. Baetke', 'Henry V.A. Strauß']
Architectural overview of the HP Exemplar V-Class Technical Server