Welcome to the exciting MPE/iX 6.5 release. New releases of
MPE/iX usually have a short set of focus areas where we have concentrated
our efforts to have a major impact. In the case of MPE/iX 6.5, those
areas of focus are performance scaling and capacity.
The main driver for the emphasis on performance scaling and
capacity improvements is that HP 3000 customers were growing at
a rate that is starting to tax the performance of our most powerful
servers. For these customers to take full advantage of new hardware which
we will be supporting in the HP 3000 family, we needed to address
certain performance bottlenecks.
In the MPE/iX 6.5 release, we have made major changes to the
core operating system, while improving the performance of HP 3000
networking and IMAGE/SQL performance. Some of these changes will
only be apparent on those high-end systems used by customers already
pushing the performance of those systems. However, these changes
will benefit many more customers by ensuring a future upgrade path
and helping to build a bright future for the HP 3000.
Of course, with the added performance, comes the reality of
more users and larger workloads. All of this stresses the limits
and capacity of the system in many ways. So we have also greatly
enhanced the capacity and limits of the HP 3000, adding support
for:
Large Files (>4GB)
Increased disk spindle limits (up to 511 spindles)
Larger physical memories (up to 16 GB on some systems)
In addition, we've also made investments in other
key areas. In today's world, interoperability is key to
enabling our customers to compete in the fast changing world of e-commerce.
So we've continued our investments in key interoperability
solutions by fully supporting the very popular Apache web server
and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) software on the
HP 3000. We've also improved Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
support on the HP 3000. And don't forget, many products
and tools continue to be delivered on the HP 3000 separate from
major releases, including support for many new peripherals.
Chapter 1 Announcements
Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX
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