Digital Technical Journal

This volume of the Digital Technical Journal (Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 1994) provides an in-depth look at the engineering behind the second generation of Digital's Alpha-based servers. Key topics include:

• AlphaServer Systems: Technical design, multiprocessor bus architecture, and I/O subsystem design for the AlphaServer 2100 and 2000 series.
• DEC OSF/1 SMP: Details on the symmetric multiprocessing implementation, including locking strategies, kernel parallelism, and scheduler improvements for thread management.
• Scientific Computing: Overview of the Digital eXtended Math Library (DXML) and the KAP preprocessor for parallelizing Fortran and C programs to achieve high performance on Alpha hardware.