HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875

April 08, 2013

Hewlett-Packard’s new densely packed low-power Moonshot server has finally come out of the company’s labs and is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada starting at $61,875. This will be the first time commercial users will get a full view of HP’s Moonshot hyperscale class of servers, which are for data centers that handle large volumes of fast-moving social networking, mobile and Internet activity. After more than a year of experimentation and multiple delays, the first Moonshot server was released Monday. The new Moonshot system includes a chassis that will accommodate up to 45 Proliant servers—also called cartridges—based on Intel’s Atom S1200 x86 low-power processors. The company did not immediately announce a Moonshot system based on ARM processors, but has left the door open for such a server in the future. The server system, which includes the chassis with a switch and fabric, is shipping now in the U.S. and Canada and will ship in other parts of the world at a later date.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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