Released 32-socket Superdome

In late August, HP began accepting orders for the maximum 32-socket configuration of its flagship Unix server, the HP Integrity Superdome 2, which was introduced last summer .


















Structurally, the 32-socket HP Superdome 2 consists of two eight-blade chassis installed in one 19-inch rack. The server scales to 128 Itanium 9300 cores and four terabytes of RAM.



Despite the fact that the first generation of HP Integrity Superdome supported up to 64 sockets, due to the transition of Itanium from a dual to a quad-core architecture, the number of cores in the maximum configuration of Superdome 2 remained at the same level, but the flagship of the HP Integrity line became much more compact (the first HP Integrity Superdome in a 64-socket configuration, it occupied two racks) and significantly increased performance - for example, during load testing at VTB Bank a new server with HP-UX 11i v3 and Oracle 11g database, it showed results per 35% of the processor core the best Than the HP Integrity Superdome previous generation, which now uses the bank.

The developers of the HP Integrity Superdome 2 are constantly improving its capabilities. Now the server owners have the opportunity to update its microcode online, which gives an additional reduction in planned downtime of the HP Integrity Superdome 2. Also, since the summer of this year, the flexibility of the input / output subsystem of the most powerful HP server has significantly improved - now it scales up to eight IOX expansion modules, Supports P411 Smart Array 6 Gb / s SAS Controller and Smart Array P812 / 1GB 6Gb 4-port external SAS Controller, QDR Infiniband interface and CN1100E CNA dual-port PCIe card for connecting to converged networks.



According to IDC, even before the release of the 32-socket configuration in the second quarter of this year, more than twenty HP Integrity Superdome 2 systems were sold in our country. Apparently, major Russian customers were not embarrassed by HP’s threat to Oracle to stop releasing new versions of its DBMS and other application software for the HP Integrity platform.