Posted on 04/08/2013 9:23:51 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
H-P (HPQ -0.9%) unveils its first Moonshot system, the fruits of a much-hyped effort to develop the kind of densely-packed, low-power systems many Web/cloud service providers have embraced. The first Moonshot server uses Intel's (INTC) S1200 (Centerton) Atom CPU. 45 of them fit into a small enclosure containing shared power/networking/storage components, and H-P claims 1,800 servers can fit into a rack. AMD and ARM-based (ARMH) servers will arrive later. The likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon probably won't adopt Moonshot, but some enterprises and service providers hoping to emulate those firms might.
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Intel (INTC) doesn't plan to let ARM-based (ARMH) solutions break into the server market without...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 11:38 AM ET
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/11/01/intel-8-core-server-atom-gets-a-name-and-date/
Trees fall in the valley, no one cares
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/06/14/seamicro-puts-512-servers-10u-box/
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