Tuesday, 10 March 2009

HP adds Xeon dual-core to x86 line

HP adds Xeon dual-core to x86 line

HP (hp.com) has announced new additions to its x86 server lineup that are powered by Intel's dual-core technology - the Intel Xeon processor DP. Using the processors, the new HP ProLiant servers can boost certain enterprise application performance by as much as 44 percent.

Initially available

on the two-processor HP ProLiant DL380 and four-processor HP ProLiant ML570 and DL580 servers, the new dual-core Intel Xeon processors offer increased price-to-performance and performance-per-watt ratios.

The DL380 is a 2U rack server designed for a variety of deployments and applications. Recently outfitted with serial attached SCSI (SAS) technology, the DL380 also has eight universal small form-factor hot-plug drives. The new dual-core Intel Xeon processors will first be available on the U320 SCSI models and then appear on SAS models as the processors become more readily available.

The DL580 is a four-way enterprise-class server in a 4U chassis. The DL580 is the only four-way industry-standard rack server with front-accessible hot-plug RAID memory, supporting up to 64 GB of memory, providing reliability and availability for business-critical applications.

The ML570 is the industry's first four-way expansion server that offers hot-plug RAID memory, management capabilities and internal expansion.

Support for up to 3TB of internal storage, 10 PCI slots and 64 GB of memory makes the ML570 useful for enterprise applications, server consolidation and remote site deployment.

In a recent four-processor SPEC CPU2000 benchmark (spec.org/cpu2000/result), the dual-core HP ProLiant ML570 exhibited a 44 percent performance improvement over the highest single-core ML570 benchmark. Similarly, in the twoprocessor SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the dual-core HP ProLiant DL380 showed a 40 percent performance improvement over the most recent single-core DL380 benchmark.

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