HP Integrity Superdome Servers

Overview

The HP Integrity Superdome delivers leading virtualization for consolidation and scalability. It’s the top-of-the-line enterprise computing solution that delivers balanced high performance along with expansive capacity, flexibility, availability, security, and manageability.

With support for multiple operating environments, the Integrity Superdome can be configured to deliver exceptional performance for all workloads, whether they are transaction-based, query-driven, or batch processing. The Integrity Superdome is an ideal system to handle workloads such as:

• Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Data mining
• Customer relationship management
• Enterprise resource planning
• Database hosting
• Telecom billing
• Human resources
• Financial applications
• Data warehousing
• High-performance computing

Providing large memory capacity and extensive I/O, the Integrity Superdome can handle resource-intensive applications for the largest IT organizations.

The Integrity Superdome can scale to 64 processors and 128 cores with 2 TB of memory and 192 I/O slots in a single server. You can also grow your solution with your business by building a cost-effective clustered environment to thousands of processors. The Integrity Superdome offers leading virtualization technologies for consolidation purposes, attractive investment protection, and a better return on IT.

Specification

HP Integrity Superdome with new sx2000 chipset
(HP Integrity Superdome with sx1000 chipset)

HP Integrity Superdome with sx1000 chipset

	HP Integrity Superdome with sx1000 chipset—16 processor/32 core server Intel Itanium 2 processor or mx2 dual-processor modules (32 CPUs)	HP Integrity Superdome with sx1000 chipset—32 processor/64 core server Intel Itanium 2 processor or mx2 dual-processor modules (64 CPUs)	HP Integrity Superdome with sx1000 chipset—64 processor/128 core server Intel Itanium 2 processor or mx2 dual-processor modules (128 CPUs)
Processor type	Intel Itanium 2 (1.6 GHz) or mx2 dual-processor modules	Intel Itanium 2 (1.6 GHz) or mx2 dual-processor modules	Intel Itanium 2 (1.6 GHz) or mx2 dual-processor modules
Processors	2-32	2-64	6-128 (128-way requires HP-UX 11i v2)
Number of 2-CPU or 4-CPU cell boards (hot-swap capability offered with HP-UX releases after 11i v2)	1 – 4	1 – 8	3 – 16
Max. processors per partition	16	32	64
Max. memory per partition	2 GB – 256 GB	2 GB – 512 GB	6 GB – 1 TB
Max. memory per partition	256 GB	512 GB	1 TB
Hot-swap PCI-X I/O slots	48 slots with 8 slots @ 2,133 MB/s, 24 slots @ 1,066 MB/s, 16 slots @ 533 MB/s	48/96 slots¹ with 16 slots @ 2,133 MB/s, 48 slots @ 1,066 MB/s, 32 slots @ 533 MB/s	96/192 slots¹ with 32 slots @ 2,133 MB/s, 96 slots @ 1,066 MB/s, 64 slots @ 533 MB/s
I/O fans	5	5	10
Hot-swap redundant fans (N+1 included)	4	4	8
Physical (hard) partitions	4	8	16
Operating systems	HP-UX 11i v3 and HP-UX 11i v2; Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for 64-bit Itanium-based systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux² AS 3 and 4 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server² 9 or 10 OpenVMS	HP-UX 11i v3 and HP-UX 11i v2; Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for 64-bit Itanium-based systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux² AS 3 and 4 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server² 9 or 10 OpenVMS	HP-UX 11i v3 and HP-UX 11i v2; Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for 64-bit Itanium-based systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux² AS 3 and 4 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server² 9 or 10 OpenVMS
Crossbar throughput per cell (peak)	8.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s
Cell controller to I/O subsystem bandwidth (peak)	2.5 GB/s	2.5 GB/s	2.5 GB/s
L2 to L3 cache per core (peak)	76.8 GB/s	76.8 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth (peak)	64 GB/s	128 GB/s	256 GB/s
Dimensions	48" D 30" W 77.2" H	48" D 30" W 77.2" H	48" D 60" W 77.2" H

¹ To expand a 32-processor Integrity Superdome to 96 slots and a 64-processor Superdome to 192 slots, an I/O expansion unit (IOX) is required.
² Linux and OpenVMS supported only on Integrity Superdome Servers with Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors