The server is targeted for technical computing customers who require a scalable, high-performance machine; an extensive portfolio of design and discovery applications; and business-critical high availability.
The V2500 combines HP's 64-bit HP-UX 11 operating environment and PA-8500 RISC architecture, industry-leading high-availability offerings, and mission-critical services and support, providing customers with a powerful technical-computing solution. Scalable up to a 128-way configuration, the V2500 delivers capacity for thousands of users in large engineering environments for computing and product data management (PDM) applications.
"The HP 9000 V2500 offers technical users a high-end UNIX system solution that allows them to design products faster and bring them to market quicker, thereby gaining a competitive advantage for their companies," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "We build the competitive edge into the solution: performance, scalability, availability features, services and support, and close alliances with key application vendors."
The V2500, which runs the powerful PA-8500 RISC processor, can scale up to a 128-way configuration and offers optimum high throughput for customers running multiple scientific and engineering applications, such as electronic design analysis (EDA), mechanical design analysis (MDA) and product data management (PDM). The V2500 delivers more than 55 gigaflops in a 64-way configuration of a Linpack NxN application, and in a 32-way configuration, it delivers more than 7,249 SPECint rate 95.
Systems That are Up and Running
In today's competitive manufacturing and design environments, availability is a key technical-server requirement. To address the need for availability, HP has added the V-Class servers to its Mission Critical Server Suites, which provide uptime commitments of 99.95 percent. HP's vision is to deliver end-to-end availability solutions at a 99.999 percent uptime -- just five minutes of downtime per year -- by the end of the year 2000.
HP also has enhanced its high-availability solution, MC/ServiceGuard, by adding the ability to form a 16-node cluster environment based on HP-UX 11 systems. With a 16-node configuration, a total of 2,048 PA-8500 CPUs may be deployed in engineering data centers and scientific-research institutions to provide scalable computing capacity and the ability to solve very large, complex problems quickly. HP's technical-server customers now can configure the same high levels of reliability and availability as commercial customers. Customers requiring disaster protection also can take advantage of HP's local and wide area network disaster-tolerant solutions, including CampusCluster, MetroCluster and ContinentalClusters.
Broad ISV Application Portfolio
Continued growth in software development for the HP 9000 family of servers clearly demonstrates industry support for the server platform and HP-UX operating environment. To date, there are more than 15,000 applications available for HP-UX. Technical-computing applications from such leading developers as Avant!, Ansys, Cadence, Fluent, HKS, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, MARC Analysis Research Corporation, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys are optimized for HP-UX 11 environments and designed to take advantage of the PA-RISC architecture. Furthermore, HP-UX is the only operating environment already configured to migrate seamlessly to the IA-64 architecture in 1999, ensuring customers of investment protection by eliminating the need to recompile applications when migrating to IA-64.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The HP 9000 V2500 is expected to be available worldwide in January, the 128-way configuration is expected to be available in mid-1999. Local HP sales representatives can provide pricing information.
Information about HP`s data-center solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/datacenter.
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