Lorraine Bartlett, Vice President of Marketing at HP recently weighed on the Tukwila launch on the Mission-Critical Computing Blog. She states that the Itanium 9300 processor is a key component of HP’s next generation Integrity Servers and goes on to say:
She also asks her readers to think about how to build on the processor performance and turn it into bottom line business results.
As the information economy continues to expand, and the size and quantity of server rooms around the world continue to grow, the efficiency of enterprise servers becomes an ever more important facet of environmental stewardship.
Power consumption and utilization rates per server are two key metrics that chip designers and server manufacturers are keeping a close eye on. A recent article in Computerworld highlights how green initiatives can be more cost efficient, citing energy consumption and virtualization as examples.
ComputerWorld talked to Lorraine Bartlett, vice president of business-critical systems at HP, who said that moving NonStop servers to a blade architecture was a step forward in terms of performance, footprint, energy use, and power density. HP will continue to focus on energy efficiency and cooling requirements and future NonStop systems built around Intel’s Itanium Tukwila processor will offer 25% better performance while using 25% less power.
Steve Lutz, vice president and general manager at HP, said about virtualization and Itanium-based blades:
The NonStop server line was a early pioneer in mission-critical computing. Originally developed by Tandem, and later acquired by Compaq, the NonStop Integrity line is now part of HP’s high-end server offering for mission-critical computing and is powered by Intel’s Itanium processor.
Having just celebrated its 35th birthday, the Nonstop line is showing no signs of slowing down as HP recently announced a series of significant upgrades.
According to a recent article from eWeek, the NonStop upgrades will include:
- NonStop BladeCluster Express 1.2, improving performance in large, geographically dispersed environments.
- NonStop SOAP 4.0, enabling greater SOA capabilities in systems, allowing integration with open-source software including Spring, Apache Axis2, MyFaces and Hibernate.
- NonStop SQL 2.3 database, for improved service levels, programming, capacity and performance.
The next generation of the Itanium processor, Tukwila, is expected to offer double the performance of the current “Montvale” Itanium chips.
In a recent article from PCWorld, James Nicolai states that HP is busy making significant updates to its Integrity line of servers to include the latest generation of Itanium processor, Tukwila. According to the article, HP will also take this opportunity to “modernize” its Integrity hardware.
Referring to the HP Superdome line of Itanium based servers, Lorraine Bartlett, Vice President of HP BCS division is quoted as saying:
Tukwila should allow HP to squeeze the same compute capacity into a system half the size by doubling the amount of cores.
A recent article from an Indian publication, BusinessLine, described how for over 30 years, HP NonStop has powered some of the India’s most critical installations. The article interviews Santanu Ghose, Country Head, Business Critical Systems and NonStop Servers, HP India. Ghose explains how the key fundamentals of the HP NonStop have remained the same and how they have evolved on Itanium for improved performance and energy efficiency. Ghose says:
