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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]
CGE Consolidates Its IT Leadership With HP Superdome Servers
White Papers The HP Superdome with its unmatched power and scalability will centrally and securely manage CGE's highly critical business processes, positioning CGE as the most efficient operator within the energy industry of Chile.
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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 Reference Configuration for Business Intelligence: HP Integrity Superdome Servers With 64 Intel Itanium 2 Processors and Microsoft SQL Server 2005
White Papers This white paper describes a reference 64-bit hardware and software configuration to support a high-end data warehouse/OLAP solution based on the scalable power of HP Integrity Superdome systems, enterprise-class HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
HP denies 'tepid' Superdome server performance
News Hewlett-Packard disputed unflattering remarks made by a prominent financial analyst regarding HP's new Superdome Unix server, the spearhead of HP's effort to win back the No. Performance-measuring benchmarks showed Superdome to be "tepid", Thomas...
[January 11, 2001, 11:55]
HP Superdome + InTeleStage = Scalable Business Intelligence for Mobile Network Operators
White Papers The company's experience was so good that, in 2004, it decided to turn, once again, to the Solution Center to benchmark its InTeleStage system with exceptionally high loads, this time on HP Integrity Superdome servers.
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
Oracle 10g on HP-UX With the Integrity Superdome Server and EVA5000s White Paper
White Papers This paper describes the scaling and performance characterization of an HP Integrity Superdome server with up to 32 cores and 16 HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 5000 (EVA5000) storage arrays.
[January 25, 2006, 0:01]
Norway Telco Calls Up HP Integrity Superdome to Supercharge Billing and CRM Services
White Papers NetCom upgraded to HP Integrity Superdome Servers with Dual-Core Intel Itanium processors, HP-UX 11i v3, and the HP Virtual Server Environment. Norway's second largest mobile telephone operator, NetCom, is a wholly owned business of...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on HP Integrity Superdome Servers for Very Large Database (VLDB) BI Solutions
White Papers Data warehouse solutions based on HP Integrity Superdome servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 allow the DW architects to focus on their core competencies and deliver BI solutions quickly. The HP Superdome server provides predictable performance...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
HP Integrity Superdome Server Breaks the 1 MILLION Plus tpmC Mark With 64 Intel Itanium 2 9M Processors, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64-Bit, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
White Papers The HP Integrity Superdome is a high-end enterprise computing solution that continues to demonstrate leading performance, flexibility, simplified management, best-in-class solution deployment, and a track record of leading benchmarks.
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
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]
Characterization of an Oracle 10g Ultra-Large Database Using HP-UX Q White Paper
White Papers This paper describes performance characterization testing of an HP Integrity Superdome server and an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array in an Oracle 10g environment. HP constructed an HP-UX, Oracle 10g Superdome and SAN storage configuration to...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
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]
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]
Banco Espirito Santo Finds a Powerful New Way to Generate Effective Business Intelligence
White Papers Banco Espirito Santo (BES), one of Portugal's top three banks, found that its four year-old HP Superdome could not keep pace with the increased size and number of business critical, financial reports being requested by 3,000 users.
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
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 Creates 6.5 Terabyte Business Intelligence Data Warehouse for Worldwide Marketing
White Papers HP moved to the highly reliable and scalable HP Integrity Superdome Server with 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 32 gigabytes of RAM. The Integrity Superdome server runs Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) and Microsoft Windows...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
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]
