Specifications

operating environment
As an operating environment (OE), HP-UX 11i is a perfect complement to the rp8400 server.
HP-UX 11i is HP’s complete 64-bit UNIX operating environment that delivers significant scalability
and performance for demanding applications. When teamed with HP’s leading server systems,
HP-UX 11i provides the power of supercomputing at a fraction of the cost.
The HP Server rp8400 will also support Windows and Linux in the future. And with Intel Itanium
processor support, you will be able to chose among three operating systems—and will even be
able to use a different OS in each partition.
hp-ux 11i support
HP-UX 11i blends an extraordinarily robust kernel, blazing performance, and excellent scalability
with a wealth of industry-leading add-ons from HP and third-party vendors. The result is an operating
system that is simply without peer for the demands of end-to-end Internet-critical computing.
The rp8400 is supported by HP-UX 11i, June 2001 release or later.
key hp-ux 11i features
• performance—scalability up to 64-way SMP, TPC benchmark disclosures, 4-GB large-process
data space, threads support in FSS and 32-/64-bit DCE library, MxN threads for increased
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• security—HP IDS 9000, execute-protected stack, Common Data Security Architecture (CSDA)
• availability—online addition and replacement of I/O and networking cards, dynamically
tunable kernel parameters, up to 70 percent shorter system boot time
• manageability—static partitions on rp8400, desktop management interface (DTMI), Process
Resource Manager physical memory control, Process Resource Manager disk bandwidth support
• file systems—VERITAS (JFS) 3.3, JFS ACL support
• networking—NFS over TCP/IP, Cache FS, libc pre-enablement of DNS 8.X,
libc IPv6 pre-enablement
• I/O—Tachlite Fibre Channel
• internationalization—EURO: ISO 8859-15 and 10646
• graphics—X11R6.3 server and runtime libraries
• 2.0X OS quality improvement over HP-UX 11.0
• ISU/ISV forward application compatibility from 11.0
choice of hp-ux operating
HP’s engineers have packaged HP-UX 11i in a variety of operating environments, each aimed at
environments
a specific type of computing. These operating environments offer more focused functionality,
easier ordering, and easier maintenance, all at a lower cost. Figure 20 shows the contents of the
various HP-UX 11i operating environments.
figure 20. HP-UX 11i operating environments
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