DEC-AlphaServer-8000-System

The Digital AlphaServer 8000 systems are presented as breakthrough enterprise servers designed for business-critical applications, offering mainframe and supercomputer-level performance at a fraction of the cost.

Key features and benefits include:

1. Superior Performance: Powered by the world's fastest 64-bit Alpha processors (up to 437 MHz RISC architecture), delivering high throughput and capacity. They are optimized for demanding commercial and technical applications, achieving industry-leading benchmark results.
2. 64-bit VLM64 Technology: Digital's exclusive Very Large Memory (VLM64) technology allows applications to address up to 28 GB of physical memory, significantly accelerating operations like financial modeling and data warehousing by reducing disk I/O.
3. Scalability: The systems are highly scalable, supporting up to 12 processors, 28 GB of memory, and massive storage (up to 39 TB), designed to grow with increasing application demands.
4. High Availability & Clustering: Built-in features like error checking, hot-swappable disks, redundant power, and ECC memory, combined with advanced clustering solutions (UNIX TruCluster Solutions and OpenVMS clustering), ensure minimum downtime, high reliability, and increased availability. Clustering allows for accelerated throughput and seamless failover.
5. Versatile Applications: Ideal for complex data warehousing, decision support, large business/manufacturing/financial applications, high-performance technical computing, sophisticated telecommunications, large-scale database management, and as very large capacity Internet servers.
6. Investment Protection: Offers compatibility across the 64-bit AlphaServer family, easy and cost-effective upgrades, and adherence to industry-standard I/O, networking, and storage.

Digital positions these systems as a leading-edge technology that provides significant productivity and cost savings, backed by comprehensive support services.