Continuing with its Windows NT-based Intel Corp Pentium Pro strategy – having given up on MIPS RISC efforts (CI No 2,854), Sunnyvale California-based NeTpower Inc has launched a new line of servers and a high-resolution graphics accelerator subsystem. The SpartaRaq rackmount server comes as a 19-inch package with a 200MHz Pentium Pro processor and 512Kb cache memory, going up to four; 64Mb ECC RAM, 2Gb Ultra Wide SCSI-2 hard disk, eight hot- swappable disk bays, three hot-swappable redundant power supplies and is pre-installed with 10-client licensed Windows NT 4.0. The SpartaRaq server is out now, priced from $17,425. Also announced was the arrival of UltraFX, a 3D texture-mapped graphics subsystems for NeTpower Pentium Pro-based workstations and servers, aimed at engineers, designers, animators and digital artists. The OpenGL-compliant UltraFX subsystems use dual Glint 500XT processors from 3Dlabs Inc, and the Delta geometry engine from the same company. It offers acceleration of more than 800,000 polygons per second, supports 24-bit colour resolutions ranging from 640 by 480 pixels to extra wide 1792 by 1120 pixels, which can reduce the need for dual monitors, and is available in 28Mb or 60Mb configurations. Up to four subsystems can be strung together if there are multi-head requirements, using a single PCI slot for each subsystem. The 28Mb version is priced at $4,000 and the 60Mb is $4,600; both ship in January. NetPower already uses the Glint chips in its TrueFX graphics accelerators, packaged with its NT-on-Intel Symetra workstations (CI No 2,972).
