Tritec Industrial AGDSE-TSTU2 User Manual
TriStation U2 Series
The Next UltraSPARC™ Generation
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▲ Multiprocessor technique
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▲ Upgradeable CPU-Modules
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up to 400 MHz
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▲ Ultra™ Port Architecture delivers
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▲ Built-in Fast-Wide SCSI-2
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▲ 100% operating system & softwar e com-
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patible to the original Sun Ultra™ series
TriStation U2: The best trends of UltraComputing™
The next generation of the TRITEC’s successful
UltraSPARC™ systems provide a flexible and scalable
enterprise resource that is easily adaptable to meet your
dynamically changing organizational needs.
TRITEC U2 models help to create an open, high-performance environment capable of solving a variety of
today’s technical and commercial problems.
The concept behind the TRITEC U2 family is simple –
combine the strengths of time-proven, high-performance symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with the performance and system resource scalability potential that
can be achieved through a parallel architecture. The
result is a robust, high-performance architecture that
enables highly parallel processing.
With a combination of exceptional processor speed,
high-bandwidth networking, accelerated graphics, and
outstanding application performance, the TriStation U2
from TRITEC introduces a new area of computing. This
is not achieved by upgrading one component such as
the microprocessor. It is a function of the w hole system:
the processor, the data paths, the graphics subsystem,
the external interfaces, the networking capabilities, the
software.
The TriStation U2 architecture answers the four major
challenges of desktop computing today: computational
performance, visual computing, fast networking, and
network-based software.
The best trends in computing come together in
TRITEC’s powerful TriStation U2
TRITEC’s TriStation U2 feature highly accelerated
graphics, imaging, and multimedia technologies, and
built-in 100 MBit/sec Fast Ethernet networking. All at a
very affordable price.
For everything from researc h, dev elopment, and design
to your most demanding business applications,
TRITEC’s TriStation U2 systems give you all the advanced features you need to improve not only the
speed, but also the quality of your work.
In fact, the TriStation U2 gives you a performance that,
until now, was only available on systems costing much
more. Which means it’s now possible to put
supercomputer power on every desktop, allowing new
levels of application performance and interactivity with
everyone on your network.
Computational Performance
At the heart of these new systems is the 64-bit
UltraSPARC™ microprocessor . Once again demonstr ating the incredible scalability of the SPARC™ architecture, the new chip combines high processor speeds
with an efficient four-way superscalar design for unprecedented desktop performance. Its nine-stage pipeline can issue up to four instructions per cycle.
And the UltraSPARC™ processor’s revolutionary Visual
Instruction Set (VIS™) – the industry’ s most flexible and
comprehensive array of on-chip multimedia, graphics,
and imaging technologies – delivers the new era of digital multimedia right to your desktop.
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Overview
TriStation U2 Series
Whichever model you choose, you will know these
new desktop systems maintain binary compatibility
with our entire product family. Also, you can still run
any of more than 10,000 solutions available on the
SPARC/Solaris™ platform; but now faster and better,
without recompiling.
Network computing at its best.
A growing number of organizations are upgrading their
older, 10-megabit-per-second Ethernet local area networks with new 100-megabits-per-second Fast
Ethernets. The higher data rates are needed to carry the
profusion of new media types (e.g. video, images and
audio) and support new real-time collaborative applications such as video-conferencing and shared
whiteboards. The TriStation U2 architecture is the first
to feature Fast Ethernet capability built into the system
motherboard, saving customers the cost of adding
boards.
Creator powers your creativity
In addition to cost-effective 8-bit graphics solutions for
EDA, CASE, and a wide range of business applications.
Also, you can choose either the TriStation U2 Creator or
TriStation U2 Creator3D which bring visual computing
to a new level.
Creator graphics, tightly coupled to the processor
through the UPA interconnect, allow the entire system
to act as a graphics engine, utilizing floating-point processor speed, VIS capabilities, and memory capacity to
their fullest. At the same time, 3D-RAM technology
combines the best features of DRAM, SRAM, and
VRAM into one chip and delivers up to 600 million
pixel operations per second. Other designs costing
much more just can’t keep up. This powerful graphics
offering gives you 24bit, single-buffered 2-D graphics,
and imaging; enabling you to pan, zoom, rotate, convolve, and do color conversion at unprecedented
speeds. It’s the ideal solution for full-color prepress,
publishing, medical, or GIS.
When you need all that and more, there is Creator3D,
with all the fast image processing and MPEG video decompression of Creator graphics. Also included are accelerated 24-bit, double- and Z-buffered 3-D rendering
which are perfect for visualization, MC AD , medical imaging, and molecular modeling.
Creator2D Graphics System
The midrange TriStation U2 Creator system, with 24-bit
true-color graphics capability, was designed from the
ground up for interactive graphics, imaging, video pla yback, and real-time information processing.
Creator 3D Graphics System
The TriStation U2 Creator 3D system combines the best
of everything: true-color graphics, high-speed image
processing, video decompression, and 3-D rendering
capabilities; thus taking visual computing to a new
level.
UPA provides high throughput
To make the most of this powerful processor, the Ultra™ P ort Architecture (UPA), a crossbar-switched interconnect was developed to enable multiple simultaneous data transfers and to provide ten times the bandwidth of previous bus-based technologies. Now data
transfers between processor , memory, I/O, and graphics
are faster than ever before; that means vastly improved
application performance. Data transfer rates up to
2.6 GByte/sec (burst) and 1.2 GByte/sec (sustained) are
provided by the UPA.
Built-in Fast-Wide SCSI and 100/10 MBit Ethernet
speeds up the network
As with all TRITEC systems, the TriStation U2 desktop
will integrate into even the most complex multivendor
environment. With 100-MBit/sec Fast Ethernet as a fully
integrated, standard feature, the High-End T riStation U2
systems deliver 10 times the bandwidth of other desktops while maintaining compatibility to existing
10Mbit/sec Ethernet connections. And the Fast-Wide,
20-MByte/sec SCSI-2 interface delivers accelerated per formance from those applications you depend on most
Four SBus Slots provide powerful expansion options
Once more the SBus has been optimized by 16 additional 64Byte streaming buffers and delivers now transfer rates of 120/100 MBytes/sec (write/read). As a
unique feature TRITEC’s TriStation U2 provides four
SBus-slots that let you use double and quad SBus-cards.
With this feature you can easily have multiple graphics
adapters and networking devices in your system. If even
four expansion slots will not be enough, you can have
up 15 additional SBus slots by using an optional expansion chassis.
Ready for the future
TriStation U2 systems are available as diskless workstations, or with a comprehensive range of factory installed mass storage options, which include not only
two internal high-performance 3.5” disk drives (up to
2 x 9 GB capacity), but also the additional choice of an
internal 32 speed CD-ROM or 4mm DAT tape drive.
Two serial interfaces (RS-232C/RS432), a Centronicscompatible High-Speed Port (4MBit/sec) and a 16bit
CD-quality stereo audio port are completing the comprehensive list of built-in features. It’ s leading edge UP A
architecture and computing performance make the
TriStation U2 the optimum price /performance choice
for Government and Financial applications; as well as
Software Development, Electronics Design (EDA),
Internetworking and Research & Development projects.
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