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.
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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.