The HP c3000 also supports a special Blade called the BL2x220c which means you can cram 2 Servers with 2 Quad Cores in the space of 1. So instead of 8 blades with 2 Procs each, you can fit 16 blades with 2 procs each (albeit with less memory on each node) You can also deploy Quad CPU blades instead of only Dual CPU blades. And the Intel Six Core Xeon 7400s (aka Dunnington) was released yesterday.
I would venture to say the HP solution is a hell of alot cheaper too since it doesn't say CRAY on the front.
maybe they'll be offering HPC on that very HP rig in the near future, or at least something with comprable specs:
"...Microsoft plans to unveil partnerships with other OEMs for computers similar to CX1, Faenov said. Some of those likely will come at the launch of Windows HPC next week, he said, though he declined to give specifics."
Granted that is 2003 and the article mentions 2008, but my guess is you're right and its only a matter of time before its officially announced. The Server 2008 tab on that page doesn't have the HPC Edition even mentioned yet.
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You had me at Cray. Now I can design that caterpillar drive I've been meaning to build.
I'll just say what everyone else was thinking: PORN!
That wasn't what I was thinking.
So Cray went and built something HP has had on the market for almost a year huh? Whoopty doo!
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/enclosures/c-class/c3000/
The HP c3000 also supports a special Blade called the BL2x220c which means you can cram 2 Servers with 2 Quad Cores in the space of 1.
So instead of 8 blades with 2 Procs each, you can fit 16 blades with 2 procs each (albeit with less memory on each node)
You can also deploy Quad CPU blades instead of only Dual CPU blades.
And the Intel Six Core Xeon 7400s (aka Dunnington) was released yesterday.
I would venture to say the HP solution is a hell of alot cheaper too since it doesn't say CRAY on the front.
I'm not interested until we can see it play Doom.
Doom? Crisis? No.
I want to know where those damn hurricanes are going before NOAA does.
Or see how many points i can rack up on folding at home.
@Casper
maybe they'll be offering HPC on that very HP rig in the near future, or at least something with comprable specs:
"...Microsoft plans to unveil partnerships with other OEMs for computers similar to CX1, Faenov said. Some of those likely will come at the launch of Windows HPC next week, he said, though he declined to give specifics."
This is the new Xbox 720 that we've been hearing about?
@Nekrik: Looks like they already do:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/583787-0-0-0-121.html
CCS = Microsoft Windows 2003 Computer Cluster Server
All the BLxxxc servers fit in the c3000 Chassis.
Granted that is 2003 and the article mentions 2008, but my guess is you're right and its only a matter of time before its officially announced.
The Server 2008 tab on that page doesn't have the HPC Edition even mentioned yet.
haha nice red october reference...
It could probably model it's own blending.
I want to see what it could do with Folding@Home
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Fred:::::::article had me at CRAY also
CASPER:::: obviously you never worked for CRAY, the force is alive!!!!
and the other guy V: YES TOTAL PORN!!!