Chipset Capabilities
HP's philosophy is to deliver features that customers want for a class of products, without compromising schedule, performance or cost. HP's approach can be described as “lean and mean.” Rather than add every “bell and whistle,” HP focused on including only those features that power users of 1-4 way workstations and servers will value. For example, memory mirroring is not a feature of the HP zx1. This is a feature that takes redundancy to a point beyond the sweet spot of 1-4 way system users.
It is the most robust, most stable Itanium 2 chipset in the industry. The HP zx1 chipset was the turn-on vehicle for the Itanium 2 processor in early 2001. At that time, Itanium 2-based systems with the HP zx1 chipset were running UNIX, ...
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