HPE Integrity MC990 X Brings Big Power to Linux, Itanium Nowhere To Be Seen
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HPE announces their newest high end Integrity server (Integrity is the server series that sits between the Proliant and the Superdome.) Their latest offering is the MC990 X which has a few surprises.
First this is an Intel Xeon E7, eight socket server (AMD64 architecture.) This is very big as it signals a closing of the Itanium era. As of 2015, HPE was the last company shipping Intel Itanium (IA64) architecture servers and while they are still providing Itanium in the Superdome line, it is clear that the process is winding down. No one knows if a new Itanium will even release yet before the architecture is decommissioned.
The MC990 X supports eight beefy Xeon E7 procs for a total of 144 physical cores (and 288 logical processors) in an single AMD64 chassis.
Unlike previous HP Integrity offerings, the MC990 X is pure Linux. No other OS (no HP-UX, Windows, OpenVMS) is supported. This is a major move, especially as the move from Itanium to Xeon would, in theory, enable a Windows return to the high end Integrity line. HPE is certainly sending a message here.
HPE partnered with another legendary RISC UNIX manufacturer, SGI (of IRIX and MIPS fame) to develop this new server model.
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SGI just refuses to die. I still miss the oddly styled IRIX workstations. Sounds like HPE is starting to get single-system processor counts back up.
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@travisdh1 said:
Sounds like HPE is starting to get single-system processor counts back up.
Eight was never that big for the Integrity line. Pretty excited that Integrity is going AMD64 and Linux, though.
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So now I wonder.... is HP-UX going to get ported to commodity hardware?
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@scottalanmiller said:
So now I wonder.... is HP-UX going to get ported to commodity hardware?
I seriously don't know - is there more power in the current HP-UX hardware line?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
So now I wonder.... is HP-UX going to get ported to commodity hardware?
I seriously don't know - is there more power in the current HP-UX hardware line?
Orders of magnitude more. Instead of 144 cores, think 144 physical CPUs. Each with many cores and every core with many logical processors. Think thousands, not hundreds. Instead of rack mount, think "comes as a multi rack unit." Instead of memory of a few TB, think memory of a few PB.
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HP SuperDome 2 which runs HP-UX (and Linux) will do currently with older CPUs...
256 CPUs per server for a total of 2048 physical cores.
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If I am reading the spec sheet right, the SD2 will do 128TB of RAM
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That baby has 96 PCIe v2 expansion slots.
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64 10GigE Ports.
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So that's probably entry level if you're needing a 100gb/s fiber port from onecommunity.org?
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The model is built for mission critical work-loads in the 2 - 6TB Workspace...
my god....
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@DustinB3403 said:
The model is built for mission critical work-loads in the 2 - 6TB Workspace...
my god....
NTG has an HP Integrity
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What kind of work-loads do you have running over there?!
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none, it's just for research.
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You mean a future MC PE server, gotcha'
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@DustinB3403 said:
You mean a future MC PE server, gotcha'
Good luck installing that on HP-UX on IA64
Actually that WILL run PHP.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
You mean a future MC PE server, gotcha'
Good luck installing that on HP-UX on IA64
Actually that WILL run PHP.
And Scott's off testing the installation... lol
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So the Integrity and the SD2 both run HP-UX?
