HP releases its most expensive and scalable server

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
06/07/05
Today's focus: HP releases its most expensive and scalable
server

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* HP launches HP Integrity NonStop server, furthers march to
  Itanium
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Today's focus: HP releases its most expensive and scalable
server

By Deni Connor

HP's switch from its PA-RISC processors to Intel Itanium
continues unabated with the introduction of the HP Integrity
NonStop server that can scale up to 4,080 processors.

HP's highly fault-tolerant NonStop computer was formerly based
on the MIPS processor, which Compaq acquired from Tandem on
1997. MIPS is a RISC-based processor architecture developed by
MIPS Technologies.

The new NonStop, which starts at $400,000, is HP's most
expensive and scalable computer. HP has a lot riding on the
Itanium processor, which it helped develop with Intel. The
company claims it nearly doubled its revenues from Itanium-based
servers in the first quarter of this year.

The new server offers seven nines of availability (99.99999%) or
.05 min (3 seconds) downtime a year, making it an excellent
candidate for organizations such as 911 dispatches or the
telecommunications industry that need continuous uptime.

Last week, HP also announced enhancements to another server that
will gradually be migrated to the Itanium platform. The HP 9000
includes new PA-8900 processors and the ability to upgrade to
Itanium 2 processors. The PA-8900 boasts a 15% performance boost
than its predecessor, the PA-8800. In addition, HP Superdome
users will now be able to mix and match PA-8900 and Itanium 2
processors in the same box.

The PA-8900 is the last iteration of HP's PA-RISC platform. From
now on out, HP's servers will be based on the Itanium.

HP will also add virtualization capability to the HP 9000 line
of servers for customers who want to consolidate applications on
a single platform. The capability will come through a patch to
the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system. Called Virtual Partitions, or
vPars, users will be able to install more than one copy of HP-UX
on an Itanium-based HP Integrity server.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

IBM scales up Xeon server
Network World, 06/06/05
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Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
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