Today demanding technologies such as the Internet have significantly increased network traffic among workgroup servers. This trend has propelled the workgroup server segment into a whole new era. The Compaq ProLiant 1600 is a new generation of workgroup servers, combining leading - edge technology and manageability to assist in managing the demanding and complex world of information.The Compaq ProLiant 1600R is the ultimate workgroup rack mountable server combining high performance and availability features critical to maximizing server uptime. Compaq now introduces the latest Intel processor technologies to this workgroup server while maintaining high availability and investment protection features you have come to rely on. The Compaq ProLiant 1600R is designed for demanding workgroups and remote/branch sites that need a powerful and highly available platform that is easy to use. This server uses the standards-based High Performance System Architecture, which includes dual memory controllers and dual-peer-PCI buses for advanced multiprocessing support that significantly increases overall system throughput. This high degree of parallelism for critical subsystems such as processor, memory and hard drives dramatically enhances the performance of demanding applications. This parallelism can be further enhanced with the addition of a Compaq drive array controller that can increase performance in disk-bound applications by accessing data in parallel from multiple hard drives.