HP launches Intel Itanium 2-based servers

HP introduced Intel Itanium 2-based servers, which is said to deliver up to 50% faster application performance than the previous Itanium 2-based systems to technical customers. These systems deliver speed for high-performance computing (HPC) demands, with faster time-to-solution across a broad range of industrial applications in HPC and technical markets. It also has approximately 50% frequency increase over existing Itanium 2 processors at 900 MHz and 1.0 GHz. 

The new HP Integrity Superdome systems, available with Intel Itanium 2 processors at 1.5 GHz, helps maximize a customer's return on IT investment with in-box upgrades from PA-RISC to new Itanium 2 processors. These systems can be clustered with hptc/ClusterPack for scalability to multiple teraflops across thousands of processors. 

HP offers a fully scalable and compatible line of technical systems based on the new Itanium 2 processor, that ranges from two to 64 processors in individual servers and to thousands of processors in HPC Integrity clusters. HP Integrity servers offer a choice of the industry-standard HPC operating systems: HP-UX 11i v2, Linux and Windows Server 2003. 

HP is partnering with leading ISVs to optimize application performance on the Itanium 2 architecture and exploit the full potential of HP systems. 

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