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HP serves up cookie sheet servers

Matt Bryant.

Ingenuity at it's greatest 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 05:42 GMT

Happy

HP once again brings forward their futuristic thinking. This is why HP killed Sun and will kill IBM.

Anonymous Coward

IBM's iDataPlex? 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 07:19 GMT

It may be that Matt is right in his murderous predictions on Sun and IBM... but IBM did come up with a product for the same need before HP, and it is IBM's iDataPlex.

Danger Mouse

Just a matter of interest 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 14:38 GMT

How many Reg readers/visitors/perverts will be looking to deploy this sort of hardware in the next 12 months?.

Anonymous Coward

HP, years behind Dell once again... 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 18:50 GMT

Stop

I think prospective customers should take a look at Dell's DCS offerings if they are interested in very dense computing farms. Dell's got this down to a science and going by the type of customers that have bought into this, it is broadly successful.

It's not just about density, but usable capacity, the warranty/services model around the offering and the ability to build/ship in short order.

[no, I don't work for Dell, or HP for that matter]

Matt Bryant.

Re: AC and DM 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 18:50 GMT

Pirate

"same need before HP, and it is IBM's iDataPlex."

You are obviously daft. HP did it first.

"How many Reg readers/visitors/perverts will be looking to deploy this sort of hardware "

All, if they have a clue.

Steve Loughran

In Hadoop clusters 

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 23:36 GMT

Thumb Up

This is the kind of kit you need for a Hadoop cluster: one HDD per core for work, one for the OS and logs. I'd like some.

barbara 1

who scaled out first, who'll scale out next 

Posted Monday 15th June 2009 11:45 GMT

Well, no matter who came first, HP will be owning the "extreme scale out" concept from now on, for sure, thanks to the best server marketing machine on the planet and to faithful HP brand champions like Matt.

The fact that IBM announced a very similar product over one year before HP http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/ibm_idataplex/

and the fact that Dell had an OEM server product which served the same segment (described in a BLOG they now unfortunately removed) will become irrelevant.