HP’s Two-in-one Server Blade HP Portfolio for HPC

By DE Editors

HP (Palo Alto, CA) announced a two-in-one server blade, which offers customers with scale-out environments improved data center performance, reduced floor space, and lower power usage. HP is calling its HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 “the world’s first” such system.

Businesses with cloud computing, Web 2.0, and high-performance computing (HPC) deployments have data centers using hundreds to thousands of servers, multi-petabyte (1PB=1024TB) levels of storage capacity, and massive performance needs. These scale-out environments require increased performance, lower energy consumption,  improved cooling techniques, and a need to maximize existing data center floor space.

To address these needs, the HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 combines two independent servers in a single blade, enabling customers to double their compute power while reducing data center space requirements. It delivers 60 percent better performance per watt than similar configurations, the company says, and minimizes cooling and power costs.

HP offers the Scalable Computing and Infrastructure business unit (a set of resources,  expertise, and development efforts) to build solutions designed for scale-out customers. The BL2x220c joins the recently announced HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100) in addressing the scale-out market. The ExDS91000 is a highly scalable storage system designed to simplify the management of multiple PB of data at an affordable cost, making it suitable for online and digital media businesses.

Plus, HP’s BL2x220c extends HP’s portfolio for the scale-out market, since the BL2x220c is said to be the industry’s first server blade to offer more than three times the density of traditional 1U rack-mount servers.

For details, contact HP.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.