Blade Watch

HP

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 16, 2009 – HP today launched servers, storage, software and networking offerings that deliver new levels of infrastructure performance and efficiency, enabling customers to accelerate business innovation.

The new offerings include the HP ProLiant G6 blade along with “skinless” server technology, storage, software and interconnect/networking offerings optimized for Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. These extend the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio, introduced in June, which is designed to reduce customers’ total cost of ownership and increase data center capacity.

“The ExSO portfolio was created to meet the demanding needs of scale-out as well as high-performance computing customers that require highly efficient and powerful computing infrastructures,” said Steve Cumings, director of Marketing for the Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization at HP. “We will continue to add to this portfolio, delivering innovative solutions based on our deep understanding of scale-out data centers and enabling our customers to gain more value from their infrastructure.”…

• The HP ProLiant BL2×220c G6 dramatically increases server density, enabling customers to get more value out of their scale-out investments while maximizing the use of physical data center space. The latest addition to the HP ProLiant G6 server portfolio, the BL2×220c includes two blade severs in the physical space of one. It has 33 percent higher memory capacity than the previous generation and delivers excellent energy efficiency and industry-leading blade server performance per watt.⁽¹⁾
• The HP Cluster Platform 3000SL delivers maximum performance per watt and per dollar. This HPC-optimized implementation of the new HP ProLiant SL series offers double the density over traditional rack servers as well as improved energy efficiency with shared power and fans.
• The HP ProLiant SL165z G6 lowers power consumption by 18 percent and costs by 10 percent.⁽²⁾ The first AMD processor based HP ProLiant SL server, the SL165z uses HP’s innovative “skinless” system architecture built on a lightweight rail and tray design to dramatically reduce capital, facilities and shipping costs while using a fraction of the space normally required within a data center. Additionally, the ultra-efficient, modular design enables customers to quickly and easily build solutions that meet extreme scale-out workload requirements.
• The recently introduced HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems simplify management of extreme data sets, enabling customers to rapidly respond to business needs while lowering costs. Ideal for data-intensive environments, these IBRIX software based solutions virtualize file storage and create a single scale-out storage pool that is instantly accessible and centrally managed.

It’s great to see HP further their offerings in the HPC space, anything they can do to improver the performance per watt, allow us to achieve more with less has to be a good thing. I remain a fan of their BL2×220c, it’s an ideal grid/hpc engine and it’s great to see further memory support and energy efficiency, you can check out the specs here. The blade now has 6 DIMM slots hosting up to 96GB RAM, and uses the Intel Xeon 5500 processor, very cool.

The other announcements of their Cluster Platform 3000SL, their SL165z G6 and their StorageWorks x9000, bring further choice and performance improvements in the hpc space, which has to be a good thing, particularly with the reported improvements in energy efficiency and deployment. I’m off to check out more and read the quickspecs!

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