Hewlett-Packard?s New rp7410 Server Provides Partitioning Feature
📅 - Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) today announced the introduction of its new midrange Unix server. The new rp7410 eight-processor machine incorporates features from HP's higher-end brethren into the core of its Unix server line.
The rp7410 provides a "partitioning" feature to HP's Unix servers, available in the higher-end 64-processor Superdome and the 16-processor "Keystone" rp8400 server. This enables a computer with multiple processors to be split into several independent servers, and administrator to replace several smaller servers with a single one that is easier or less expensive to manage.
With appropriate software, partitions can automatically channel computing tasks, sending overflow Web traffic to one processor and distributing lower-priority jobs.
HP's rp7410 can be split into two independent servers of four processors each through a solid hardware partition, said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager for HP's Unix server line.
Through a virtual software partition, as many as eight functional units can be established. In addition, other HP software enables administrators allocate fractions of CPU power to individual programs.
With software coming in the next two to three years, the company plans to be able to let a server partition use just 1 percent of a CPU's power.
Software partitioning still hasn't arrived in HP's Superdome server more than a year after the server's debut. But the company expects it will be done within the next two months.
"I think we would have liked to see that out earlier," Hudson said. "There are always occasions when you don't time it correctly."
The rp7410 provides a "partitioning" feature to HP's Unix servers, available in the higher-end 64-processor Superdome and the 16-processor "Keystone" rp8400 server. This enables a computer with multiple processors to be split into several independent servers, and administrator to replace several smaller servers with a single one that is easier or less expensive to manage.
With appropriate software, partitions can automatically channel computing tasks, sending overflow Web traffic to one processor and distributing lower-priority jobs.
HP's rp7410 can be split into two independent servers of four processors each through a solid hardware partition, said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing manager for HP's Unix server line.
Through a virtual software partition, as many as eight functional units can be established. In addition, other HP software enables administrators allocate fractions of CPU power to individual programs.
With software coming in the next two to three years, the company plans to be able to let a server partition use just 1 percent of a CPU's power.
Software partitioning still hasn't arrived in HP's Superdome server more than a year after the server's debut. But the company expects it will be done within the next two months.
"I think we would have liked to see that out earlier," Hudson said. "There are always occasions when you don't time it correctly."
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