Irvine, California-based AST Research Inc has added Intel Corp’s latest Pentium to its Manhattan range of servers and plans to use the 133Mhz chip in its Advantage! family of multimedia personal computers, the Bravo desktop line and Premmia workstation family. The servers come with one or two processors, 32Mb of error correcting code memory and 512Kb second-level cache. The Manhattan P5133 comes in two configurations: the Model 6003AE has three 2Gb hard drives and a PCI-based dual channel disk array controller; the Model 12003AE has three 4Gb hard drives and the same array controller. With three drives each, two for storage and one for maintaining parity, either model can be configured for RAID disk array level 5 storage for additional fault resiliency, said the company. The company is supporting NetWare, Windows NT, OS/2, Santa Cruz Unix, Vines and Solaris on the server, which also comes with the company’s Percepta Server Manager, a pictorial-based server management tool, which provides a picture-at-a-glance of server configuration and performance. Percepta can be implemented as a stand-alone utility or installed as a snap-in to Novell Inc Network Management System. Percepta also is compatible with Windows NT operating environment. No prices.
