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HP Launches Moonshot

Posted by Unknown on from the everyone's-doing-it dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Only thing about Atom proccessors by Lisias · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  2. Re:Does it compute? by symbolset · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  3. 450 servers, not 1800 by thedarknite · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:Only thing about Atom proccessors by davester666 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "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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  5. Re:Only thing about Atom proccessors by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the Cortex A15 has both.

  6. Re:Only thing about Atom proccessors by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it 64 bit?

    Internally yes, with some instructions processing 128-bits. The address buss is 40-bits wide, limiting? physical memory to 1TB