HP launches first enterprise-class ARM-based Moonshot server

HP has announced two ARM-based servers, including the first enterprise-class 64-bit ARM-based server. Part of the HP ProLiant Moonshot portfolio, the new servers addresses IT demands with a pool of processing resources that can be located anywhere, scaled to any workload and available at any time.

The new HP ProLiant Moonshot 64-bit server, the HP ProLiant m400 are based on the X-Gene Server on a Chip from Applied Micro Circuits Corporation with Canonical Ubuntu operating system, saves on power, cooling and space, providing up to 35 percent reduction in total cost of ownership compared to rack servers.
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The company is also introducing the new HP ProLiant m800 optimised for real-time data processing of high volume, complex data, such as pattern analysis. The 32-bit ARM-based server has the KeyStone architecture-based 66AK2Hx SoCs from Texas Instruments, featuring four ARM Cortex-A15 cores and integrated digital signal processor (DSPs), Canonical, and HP 2D Torus Mesh Fabric in combination with Serial Rapid I/O to deliver three times more bandwidth and 90 percent low latency data throughput.

PayPal is using the HP ProLiant m800 in their Systems Intelligence project.

In addition, HP is combining the HP ProLiant m800 server with Enea Telco Development Platform and eInfochips Multimedia Transcode Engine to provide a unified development platform for accelerated development of network functions for telco customers. As a result, telcos can improve time to market of new applications and deliver twice the performance per rack unit than ATCA infrastructure.