HP Superdome
The HP Superdome is a company server based on cc Numa technology from Hewlett-Packard . The first edition of the computer appeared in 2000, back then with the in-house 64-bit PA-RISC processors, also called the HP 9000 Superdome. The computers run under HP's own Unix operating system variant HP-UX .
In the course of their development, incompatible changes to the application software were carried out on these computers, which is why the continued existence of the Superdome series was assessed very critically:
- Transition from PA-RISC processors to Intel Itanium processors
- Support of Windows Server (Itanium) and Linux (Itanium) as possible operating systems
- Transition from Itanium processors to Intel Xeon processors and the associated change in the possible operating systems from HP-UX to Linux x86-64, Windows Server (x86-64) and VMware
Common to all versions is the use of HP's own chipsets (SX1000 / SX2000 / SX3000 and NUMAlink ), which enable several individual computer nodes to be coupled to form a large ccNuma system with shared memory. At the same time, the machines support hardware partitioning in addition to the virtualization functions of the respective operating systems.
From the versions with Itanium processors, the Superdome servers were increasingly built from standard components:
- PCI-Express support
- Use of in-house blade server components from the C7000 series
- Use of the Intel Xeon CPUs
The HP Superdome continues today as a large ccNUMA server with the x86-64 standard CPUs, but is no longer a proprietary platform for HP's own operating systems HP-UX and OpenVMS and today has a number of competitors in the Intel server market segment. Finally, the Superdome Flex is the successor to the SGI UV 300 series with its NUMALink technology, which was taken over by SGI .
Series
These main series can be expanded in different sizes and equipped with numerous options. They typically consist of 1-2 racks with the processor boards and additional peripheral racks.
| Surname | Construction year | CPUs | Number of CPUs / CPU cores |
Chipset | Design | Operating systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP 9000 Superdome | 2000-2008 | PA-RISC PA-8600 to PA-8900 | 16-32-64 / 32-64-128 |
SX1000 | Cell boards | HP-UX, OpenVMS |
| HP Integrity Superdome | 2009 | Itanium Montvale / Montecito / Madison or PA-RISC PA-8600 to PA-8900 |
16-32-64 / 32-64-128 |
SX1000 / SX2000 | Cell boards | HP-UX, Win2008Srv for Itanium, Linux, OpenVMS |
| HP Integrity Superdome 2 | 2010 | Itanium Tukwila processor | 8-16-32 / 64-128-256 |
SX3000 | 8-16 blades | HP-UX, Win2008Srv for Itanium, Linux, OpenVMS |
| HP Superdome X | 2014 | Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge to Broadwell | 16-32 / up to 32x24 |
SX3000 | 8-16 blades | Linux / Windows / VMware |
| HP Superdome Flex | 2018 | Intel Xeon SP | 8 x 4 / up to 32 x 28 |
NUMALink | 4-CPU-5U-19 "units | Linux / Windows / VMware |
Web links
- https://www.hpe.com/de/de/product-catalog/servers/integrity-servers/pip.hpe-integrity-superdome-2-server.4311905.html
- https://www.hpe.com/de/de/servers/superdome.html
- https://www.hpe.com/de/de/product-catalog/servers/mission-critical-x86-servers/pip.hpe-superdome-flex-server.1010323140.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-superdome-dead-as-a-dodo/
- ↑ http://www.qdpma.com/systemarchitecture/NUMA.html
- ↑ http://www.alimartech.com/pdfs/hp_sprdm_ds.pdf
- ↑ https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04284012.pdf
- ↑ https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04123326.pdf
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/HP-Superdome-X-und-NonStop-X-mit-Xeon-statt-Itanium-2473297.html
- ↑ https://www.hpe.com/de/de/product-catalog/servers/mission-critical-x86-servers/pip.specifications.hpe-superdome-flex-server.1010323140.html
- ↑ https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/06/hpes-superdome-gets-sgi-numalink-makeover/