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Superdome: 'Mother of all computers'?
News So claimed Hewlett-Packard's Duane Zitzner, president of computing systems, as he helped roll out HP's latest high-end Unix server line, the Superdome HP 9000, in New York City on Tuesday. HP claimed its Superdome line, which is based on HP's PA...
[September 12, 2000, 17:04]
HP: Employee sabotaged Superdome tests
News Hewlett-Packard filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a former employee sabotaged performance tests of its top-end Superdome Unix server, crippling sales of the key product. The computing giant said in the suit that Hock-Beng Lim admitted in a...
[November 9, 2001, 9:28]
HP: Firing saboteur boosted Superdome
News Firing an employee accused of sabotaging tests of Hewlett-Packard's top-end Superdome Unix server helped the company improve a key performance measurement, an executive claims. HP nearly doubled the measurement of how fast a Superdome is able to...
[November 20, 2001, 9:48]
OpenVMS alive and kicking on SuperDome
News OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard's high-end operating system, which during the 90s moved from the old VAX minicomputers to the 64-bit Alpha processor, got its first European outing this week on the company's high-end Intel-based SuperDome server.
[May 7, 2004, 10:05]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
News HP on Tuesday demonstrated Linux scaling to 64 processors on its Superdome hardware as it seeks to reassure customers who are increasingly considering the open source operating system for enterprise applications.
[January 18, 2005, 14:55]
Processor speeds up HP's Unix servers
News Hewlett-Packard will speed up its top-end Superdome Unix server with a faster processor, ensuring further spicy competition with IBM and Sun Microsystems. The 64-processor Superdome server is on the vanguard of HP's effort to steal market share...
[June 24, 2002, 8:49]
HP's Unix beats Windows on Itanium
News An HP Integrity Superdome with 64 Itanium 2 6M "Madison" processors posted a score of 824,000 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's widely watched TPC-C test of a single computer running a busy database.
[July 31, 2003, 9:05]
HP beats million-transaction mark
News The system, an $8.4m (£5m) HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP now holds the top three spots, with third place running...
[November 5, 2003, 8:05]
IBM takes top spot in server-speed race
News That compared to the 389,000 score of HP's Superdome machine. Competitors leapfrog each other as new systems arrive, and IBM's 32-processor Regatta was released about a year after HP's 64-processor Superdome.
[May 24, 2002, 12:02]
HP shuffles server chips
News Almost all of the PA-8800 based systems are available now, and the top-end 128-processor Superdome will ship in March, HP said. The 128-processor Superdome -- using as many as 64 PA-8800 chips -- will be available for a starting price of $309,000...
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
IBM and Unix speed past HP and Windows
News It edged ahead of the 658,000 score posted two weeks ago by Hewlett-Packard's Superdome running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. IBM's winning system cost $7.6m (£4.72m), compared with $6.4m (£3.97m) for the HP Superdome running...
[May 12, 2003, 8:59]
IBM signs massive Chinese deal
News In a statement, the company said the Chinese agency will continue to use 80 big HP computers, including 46 Superdome machines, purchased last year. Superdome installment ever. The Chinese government will purchase more than $20m worth of computers...
[November 17, 2005, 9:05]
Sun fights back with mid-range servers
News HP's Superdome and IBM's p680 have arrived to compete with Sun's E10000. HP added partitioning with its Superdome server, and IBM is expected to add a sophisticated version with its coming "Regatta" Unix server due this fall.
[March 21, 2001, 11:25]
Sun, HP take on Squadron
News The PA-8800 will make its debut in 128-processor Superdome servers late in 2003 or early in 2004, said Mark Hudson, head of marketing for HP's high-end server group, in a recent interview. And the 128-processor Superdome based on Itanium chips will...
[May 16, 2003, 12:16]
Can IBM's Regatta take on two rivals?
News HP's Superdome accommodates as many as 64 processors, but most configurations ship with 32 or fewer, HP has said. With its Superdome system on sale for nearly a year, HP has edged out Sun to take the top position in both the midrange Unix server...
[December 14, 2001, 12:14]
HP, Unisys tout Intel servers
News HP, which showed its Itanium high-end system at the Gartner Data Center Conference on Monday in Las Vegas, demonstrated its top-end Superdome system with 28 Itanium 2 processors. Superdome already ships with HP's own PA-RISC processors, but a...
[December 11, 2002, 6:55]
HP plans 16-way RISC server
News HP has made some inroads with high-end Superdome sales, though HP chief executive, Carly Fiorina, has said it's taking longer to sell them than the company had hoped. Hudson confirmed that HP won a bid to sell its Superdome systems to Cisco Systems.
[March 8, 2001, 12:11]
IBM's Power5+ chip boosts top-end Unix servers
News The top non-IBM result is a 2005 test of HP's Itanium-based Superdome, clocked at 1.23 million transactions per minute, but the California-based rival is toiling over a more up-to-date score with the Montecito chips, the first Itaniums to follow...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
HP cuts prices on midrange Unix servers
News HP's 8800 chip "Mako" will debut in the top-end Superdome system, which accommodates as many as sixty-four 8700 chips but will effectively become a 128-processor system with the dual-core 8800 chips. About 50 percent of Superdome customers buy...
[April 3, 2003, 7:37]
Itanium suffers setback despite server progress
News One part of that commitment will appear on 18 January when HP brings new top-end Itanium processors to midrange Integrity servers with eight or 16 processor sockets and to its high-end Integrity Superdome line with 32 or 64 sockets.
[January 6, 2005, 8:00]
