Capable of handling up to four 90- or 100-MHz Pentium processors, the Star Q SMP superserver (from $7500) can accommodate 13 dual hot-swappable drive bays and three VESA and 10 32-bit EISA expansion slots. An LVL-Bus video card has 1 MB of video RAM, upgradable to 2 MB. The system's 64-bit multiprocessor bus has a throughput of 267 MBps. Each CPU board includes, in addition to the processor, a cache controller and 256 KB of two-way set-associative write-back cache RAM. The Star Q SMP comes with a BusLogic EISA SCSI controller or, for a RAID configuration, a Mylex multichannel controller.
Contact: Star Technologies, Laguna Hills, CA, (714) 768-6460; leigh@startech.com.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
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