HP Introduces Linux-based HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations
HP Extends Customer Choice in Workstation Solutions
Palo Alto, California. June 21, 1999
Hewlett-Packard Company, the worldwide
workstation leader1, today announced two
new HP VISUALIZE high-performance,
Intel Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon
processor-based personal workstations. The
HP VISUALIZE PL450 and XL550 Personal
Workstations will ship with Linux and deliver
leading application performance for popular
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
software solutions from Avant!, Mentor
Graphics and Synopsys, as well as for other
technical applications.
"Offering a choice of leading technologies is
part of our strategy to provide the best
workstation solutions to meet our customers'
needs," said Roger Jollis, market
development manager for HP's Workstation
Systems Division. "With the availability of
HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations
pre-loaded with Red Hat Linux, we're
effectively extending the robustness of a
UNIX operating system to the Intel platform
for EDA customers and other customers who
want that environment."
The HP VISUALIZE PL450 and XL550
Personal Workstations
Built for engineers and scientists who need
tools that let them work unconstrained, the
new HP VISUALIZE PL450 and XL550
Personal Workstations are ideal for
customers who want to add Intel
Pentium-based workstations, but with UNIX
system reliability and functionality, to their
design centers. The HP VISUALIZE PL450
Personal Workstation is designed for
engineers who want Linux and Intel in their
design environments, while the HP
VISUALIZE XL550 is designed for those
requiring maximum performance on an
Intel-based system. The XL and PL can be
used with platform-computing load-sharing
facility software to create a compute-farm
configuration ideal for simulation
environments.
Today's announcement underscores HP's
commitment to furthering the development of
Linux as a high-quality operating system
that meets the needs of a wide range of highly
demanding technical applications. Linux is
the first open-standards-based 32-bit
operating system that combines the
advantages of a UNIX system with an
Intel-based platform.
"We're very impressed with the performance
of Synopsys' VCS simulator running on these
new HP VISUALIZE Personal
Workstations," said Steve Smith, director of
marketing for the Simulation Technology
Group at Synopsys, Inc. "Our customers
report spending 50 to 70 percent of their
design cycles verifying the functionality of
complex system-on-chip devices. The
combination of VCS and HP's workstations
running the Linux OS offers compelling
price/performance points which can deliver
the power to achieve time-to-market and
design quality goals.
Linux, the result of a worldwide development
effort over the Internet, is an open-source,
multiuser, multitasking operating system that
runs on a variety of computing platforms.
The installed base of Linux -- estimated to
be between 10 million and 15 million sites
currently -- continues to grow.
Configurations, U.S. Pricing and
Availability
HP expects to begin worldwide shipment of
HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations with
U.S. English implementations of Linux2 in
the third calendar quarter of this year. HP
plans to offer support for Linux (both
hardware and software) in a warranty and
purchase-support package available on HP
price lists. Red Hat support also will be
available. Example configurations are priced
as follows:
The HP VISUALIZE PL450 Personal
Workstation with Intel Pentium III
450MHz processor, 128MB SDRAM,
9.0GB Ultra-wide SCSI hard drive and
ELSA GLoria Synergy+ graphics --
$3,330.
The HP VISUALIZE XL550 Personal
Workstation with Intel Pentium III Xeon
550MHz processor, 128MB SDRAM,
9.0GB Ultra-wide SCSI hard drive and
ELSA GLoria Synergy+ graphics --
$4,525. |
