Chipset Objectives

Early market penetration will be especially high in markets where the ability to address large amounts of physical memory is important. These include the early adopter markets such as Computer Aided Engineering, Life Sciences, in-memory databases, large key or complex algorithm cryptography. In short, those who do what we defined in Chapter 4 as 'Technical Computing'.

The High Bandwidth, Low Latency Chipset

The HP zx1 Chipset is a modular three-chip solution designed by HP to enable them to provide customers with a cost-effective, high bandwidth, and low latency 1-to 4-way workstations and servers based on the next generation Itanium processor family platform. This chipset enables HP to deliver features that power users want ...

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