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 net- works 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 appli- cations 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 pro- cessor 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, con- volve, 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 de- compression of Creator graphics. Also included are ac- celerated 24-bit, double- and Z-buffered 3-D rendering which are perfect for visualization, MCAD, medical im- aging, 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 play- back, 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
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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 Ul- tra™ Port Architecture (UPA), a crossbar-switched inter- connect was developed to enable multiple simulta- neous data transfers and to provide ten times the band- width 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
2.6GByte/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 TriStation U2 systems deliver 10 times the bandwidth of other desk- tops 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 addi- tional 64Byte streaming buffers and delivers now trans- fer 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 expan- sion chassis.
Ready for the future
TriStation U2 systems are available as diskless worksta- tions, or with a comprehensive range of factory in- stalled 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 Centronics- compatible High-Speed Port (4MBit/sec) and a 16bit CD-quality stereo audio port are completing the com- prehensive list of built-in features. It’s leading edge UPA 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.
