Extreme Scale Cloud Servers from HP: Meet DL1000 high density boxes!
By Tarry Singh at 10 June, 2009, 10:45 am
The new ProLiant SL series of cookie sheet machines follows fast on the heels of the uber-dense ProLiant DL rack-based servers that were announced last week. The DL1000 rack server allows one, two, or four two-socket servers using quad-core “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 processors to be put into a 2U form factor - the kind of space that normally would hold just two sockets. The SL6000 Scalable System, as the cookie sheet machines are called, offer the same kinds of densities as the DL1000s, but instead of wrapping server nodes in a lot of metal, they are put on trays that slide into 2U rack-mounted cases.
Back in October 2008 when it was just Rackable Systems, the new (and presumably improved) Silicon Graphics created its own cookie sheet designs, called the CloudRacks, which slid trays of servers and storage into 22U or 44U racks instead of sliding them into 2U or 4U chasses that in turn mounted into racks. Why HP didn’t cut even more metal out of the design and think at the rack level is unclear, but it looks like it wanted to create a cookie sheet design that used standard racks (either made by HP or by others) instead of forcing buyers to get its own racks.
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