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HP Fuels Standards-Based Computing
With Expanded Server Line
HP announced new HP Integrity and ProLiant servers and Linux clustered
systems, further expanding the company's reach to emerging markets as well as
traditional enterprise computing customers. From simplifying the needs of
growing businesses to delivering high performance for technical computing and
enterprise datacenters, HP is setting the standard in the industry for 32-bit
and 64-bit computing.
Announcements include:
- The Itanium-based HP Integrity rx4640 four-way high-density server and HP
Integrity rx7620 eight-way and rx8620 16-way midrange servers, rounding out
the industry's broadest Itanium-based server line
- The new HP ProLiant 100 server series -- competitively priced for small-
and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and high-performance technical computing
customers -- including the first of the series: the HP ProLiant DL140
server
- New HP XC3000 and XC6000 Linux clusters for high-performance technical
computing customers.
"The rules of the game have changed in the server market, and it's clearly
'advantage HP,'" said Scott Stallard, executive vice president of Enterprise
Storage and Servers at HP. "Record numbers of customers are choosing HP
servers as the basis for an adaptive infrastructure. It's a stamp of approval
for our approach of focused innovation based on industry standards, and
today's announcements build on that approval."
Customers, Applications, Leading Performance = Integrity Server
Momentum
Adoption of HP Integrity systems has grown steadily as customers deploy the
servers for greater performance, scalability, higher availability, lower cost
of ownership and multi-operating system support. New customers include CBS
Broadcasting Inc, CitiStreet, CompUSA Inc, First Trust Corporation and the
Home Shopping Network.
"In recent testing, the HP Integrity rx5670 server provided up to 80
percent
improvement in processing times on our database. We saw that the combination
of HP Integrity servers, Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 for our database provided
CBS with the performance we demand for one of our most critical business
applications. In addition, the Integrity server provides outstanding
scalability and flexibility for future projects," said Amy Berkowitz, chief
information officer at CBS Broadcasting Inc.
In addition, all of the top HP applications software partners and leaders
in
the software industry have committed major application suites to the HP
Integrity line. Nearly 1,000 applications are available for HP-UX, Linux, and
Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Hundreds of OpenVMS applications are expected
by mid-2004.
"With more than 35 percent of BEA WebLogic licenses shipping on HP server
platforms, our customers can recognize the strength and flexibility of
computing solutions from HP and BEA," said Olivier Helleboid, executive vice
president of products at BEA Systems. "Combining HP's expanded line of
Integrity servers with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 can deliver industry-leading
price/performance for enterprise applications across HP-UX, Linux and
Microsoft Windows 2003 operating systems. We're pleased that the porting work
has been simple and straightforward."
HP Integrity servers, which range from two processors to 64-processor
Superdome systems, highlight the advantage of innovations built on industry
standards. Customers can have the flexibility of standards-based systems and
industry-leading performance. For example, HP's new midrange servers
significantly outperform IBM and Sun offerings, delivering double the
performance with an equivalent number of processors.
More information regarding record-breaking Integrity server benchmarks is
available at www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/performance.html.
The HP Integrity server family is the only one in the industry that can run
all three of the most widely used operating systems: HP-UX 11i -- the
industry's leading UNIX operating system, Linux and Microsoft Windows Server
2003. The OpenVMS operating system is expected to be available on Integrity
servers in 2004.
New Hp Proliant 100 Series For SMB And High-Performance Computing Applications
To meet the growing needs of the SMB and high-performance technical computing
markets, HP has extended the reach of the world's best-selling standards-based
server line with the new HP ProLiant 100 series. Designed for general-purpose
workloads, the servers offer entry-level availability, moderate expandability
and proven dependability ideal for both small and medium businesses and
compute- intensive cluster environments.
HP ProLiant 100 series servers provide great value for customers seeking solid
performance, engineering and dependability with world-class services and
support. Flexibility in purchasing and financing combined with competitive
pricing ensures even the most cost-constrained business can deploy
industry-leading HP ProLiant servers.
The HP ProLiant 100 series is designed with simplicity in mind, utilizing
OS-enabled management tools to ensure ease of deployment and management. With
the reliability of ProLiant and expert support from HP, customers can focus on
their business, rather than their server.
The new density-optimized, two-processor HP ProLiant DL140 server is the first
of the ProLiant 100 server series. Offering floating point performance and
cluster scalability, the DL140 server is ideal for grid computing and for
cost-conscious customers who want to deploy clustered solutions for
high-performance technical computing applications.
Clustered systems running Linux for high performance technical computing HP's
new clusters are integrated, turnkey offerings, running Linux and a
comprehensive software environment. They are designed to meet the most
demanding scientific and engineering technical computing needs while
delivering the simplicity and robustness typically required for broad
commercial use.
The HP XC6000 cluster is based on the HP Integrity rx2600 systems and the HP
XC3000 cluster is based on HP ProLiant servers. Each system is available in
standard, fully supported offerings up to 512 processors, with larger
configurations by request, and features high-speed interconnects from Quadrics
LTD and Myricom.
The clusters have widespread support from technical computing application
providers. "FLUENT is happy to extend our partnership with HP by supporting
the XC product line," said Paul Bemis, vice president product marketing at
FLUENT. "The XC should be of great interest to FLUENT customers, as it shows a
high level of performance and scaling with an open standard Linux and a
globally supported software configuration that we and our customers can depend
on."
As the leader in high-performance technical computing, HP has formed the HP
Collaboration and Competency Network (HP CCN) to ensure that emerging
standards and technologies meet the demanding needs of the high-performance
technical computing community. The HP CCN is a forum to facilitate
wide-ranging collaboration, innovation and competency sharing between HP and
customers and partners. The initial HP CCN collaboration areas include Linux
on Itanium (Gelato), computational and data grids, global file system for
Linux (Lustre), scientific visualization (Sepia), and Linux SMP scaling. More
information about the HP CCN is available at
http://www.hp.com/go/collaboration .
HP StorageWorks Secure Path Available On Integrity servers
The new Integrity, ProLiant and Linux clustered systems are supported by the
complete range of HP StorageWorks products. This includes HP StorageWorks
Secure Path software, with high-availability and dynamic load balancing
features, which is now available with HP Integrity servers. Secure Path
software creates and maintains multiple two-way paths for information to
travel between servers and external storage devices, such as HP StorageWorks
Enterprise Virtual Arrays. If one lane is blocked, the software automatically
directs data to the other lane to eliminate single points of failure.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and
printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses. For the
last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $71.3 billion. More information about
HP is available at www.hp.com.
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