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HP Launches Moonshot
New submitter linatux writes "HP has announced their 'Moonshot 1500 server' — up to 1,800 servers per 47U rack are supported. The tech certainly seems to be an advance on what is currently available — will it be enough to revive HP's server fleet?"
From Phoronix: "Moonshot began with Calxeda-based ARM SoCs, but in the end HP settled for Intel Atom processors. Released today were HP's Moonshot system based on the Intel Atom S1200. Hewlett-Packard claims that their Moonshot System uses 89% less energy, 80% less space, 77% less cost, and 97% less complexity than traditional servers."
Atom processors are notoriously slow. You can't play 3d video games on them.
Yes, you can. :-)
I managed to play Orbiter on a reasonable resolution (1280x1024x16) and got an acceptable (barely, I admit) framerate on my Atom 330 box. That it's my Media Center and torrent server, by the way.
Granted, the Game of the Year will not run on this setup. :-)
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HP tried this with Transmeta a while back, and produced blades that completely sucked - WAY too slow. Individual machines on blades are dead, unless you need HPC type power, and Atom ain't that. If you need to squeeze 1800 limp servers into a rack, VMWare and its children are already there.
Sorry HP, you suck. Go back to making shitty printers, and then get out of the way. Hopefully your corpse will provide the fertilizer for some new market leader to grow from.
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This is 1800 servers per rack, each a dual-core 2.0GHz 64bit Atom processor with 8GB RAM. It has a custom low-latency redundant mesh network between the nodes. For workloads like Hadoop it should be outstanding. If they're priced right I could see them including this as a type of machine in their cloud. 3,600 cores per rack, vs Xeon at 768 cores per rack (blades). This could be interesting.
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Someone at Phoronix really needs to learn basic math. The Chassis is 4.3U and hold 45 of these Moonshot servers, so a 47U rack could fit 10 chassis' for a total of 450 servers.
A game has objectives and is competitive, anything else is just play
"Moonshot" refers to their business strategy. This is a 'moonshot', high-risk, high-reward, but more than likely to just go into the crapper like pretty much everything except their calculators and printers.
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Well the Cortex A15 has both.
Is it 64 bit?
Internally yes, with some instructions processing 128-bits. The address buss is 40-bits wide, limiting? physical memory to 1TB