HP launches scale-up servers for enterprises

DELHI, INDIA: HP on Wednesday announced the launch of the scale-up HP ProLiant servers for enterprises who rely on large-scale, data-intensive workloads and databases to drive innovation.

Scale-up servers are designed for tackling the toughest application workloads, often with a single server, said a press release.

The company offers a family of scale-up solutions that include the HP ProLiant DL980 G7, HP ProLiant DL580 G7, HP ProLiant BL680c G7 and HP ProLiant BL620c G7 servers.

With scalability of up to eight sockets, 80 cores and 4 terabytes (TB) of memory within a single server, these systems enable clients to keep pace with data growth and respond to new opportunities, it claimed.

The ProLiant scale-up servers provide clients a high-performance computing environment that delivers

high processing capabilities for compute-intensive workloads, such as online transaction processing, business intelligence and scientific calculations, with the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server.

The DL980 G7 delivers the top system performance result for eight-socket x86 servers as demonstrated in SPEC CPU2006 benchmark, HP further claimed.