The HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) Portfolio

HP recently launched their HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resource savings for businesses involved in Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing. These “scale-out” business models operate with thousands of servers and push the limits of current technology solutions.

At the core of the HP ExSO portfolio is the HP ProLiant SL server family, which uses a “skinless” systems architecture replacing traditional chassis and rack form factors with an extremely lightweight rail and tray design. This reduces capital, facilities and shipping costs while using a fraction of the space normally required in a data center. There are three HP ProLiant G6 servers:

• HP ProLiant SL2x170z G6 delivers high-density compute with two servers in each 1U tray for highly dense applications such as high-performance computing and web front-end applications.
• HP ProLiant SL160z G6 delivers increased memory with 18 dual, in-line memory module (DIMM) slots and up to two peripheral component interconnect (PCI) slots, making it ideal for large memory-cache apps.
• HP ProLiant SL170z G6 delivers the greatest storage capacity with up to six large form-factor Serial ATA (SATA) or serial-attached SCSI (SAS (News - Alert)) hard drives. The server is ideal for large storage applications such as web search and database applications.

Another HP ExSO portfolio component is the HP Data Center Environmental Edge that provides customers with great visibility of their data centers by using small sensors to monitor power and cooling distribution, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, thus enablgin customers to eliminate inefficiencies while increasing data center capacity and reducing energy consumption.

John Gromala, Director of the Industry Standard Servers (ISS) unit at Hewlett-Packard (News - Alert), says, “What are Extreme Scale-Out customers? They’re the high profile organizations we’ve heard so much about such as the Surge Web 2.0 type companies. But there’s also a broader set that aren’t often talked about, such as the online gaming companies, and even in some cases enterprise customers that you know that are doing simulations and are replacing what used to be physical activities with computer simulations. Simulated auto crash testing using Scale-Out architectures is one example.” IT

Richard Grigonis (News - Alert) is Executive Editor of TMC’s IP Communications Group.

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