HP's new ARM-based Servers

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Post by zeit_geist » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

HP's new ARM-based Servers
h17007.www1.hp.com

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

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Post by atlbeer » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

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Post by antpicnic » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:28 PM UTC

How odd that HP calls these servers Project Moonshot. A moonshot used to be slang for something with a low probability of success.

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

HPs urls are terrible: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

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Post by sounds » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:55 PM UTC

atlbeer wrote: post #2

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

I don't want to predict the future, but if HP thinks it can win over customers with 100% marketing and no technical details, that's not a good sign.

I make the IT purchasing decisions for my company, and I know what an ARM CPU is, and why it's a good idea. Therefore, I know that HP's approach doesn't make sense: ARM hasn't been proven in this market. Therefore, customers and vendors (like HP) need to work very closely and there needs to be openness about design issues, performance tuning, etc.

HP's starting off on the wrong foot. Maybe there's enough money in ARM that they'll figure it out. But if I have to make a prediction, I'm of the opinion the ARM server market is going to take off so fast that HP will be left behind.

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

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Post by jbellis » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 6:57 PM UTC

Does it support ECC ram? None of the other ARM servers I've seen yet have.

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Post by lreeves » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:01 PM UTC

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #4

HPs urls are terrible: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx

No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major company still using cruft like that I can think of is IBM. Totally unnecessary.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:13 PM UTC

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Post by joshu » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:14 PM UTC

No details or pricing whatsoever?

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Post by m0wfo » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

Seeing as it is neither enterprise software nor the fruit of an overpriced acquisition, Leo Apotheker must have been ousted before he had a chance to kill this project as well.