[Info-vax] HP Users Hope Whitman Can Persuade Oracle to Change Itanium Decision

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Michael S wrote 2011-10-02 16:45:
> On Oct 2, 3:45 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>> Michael S wrote 2011-10-02 15:23:
>>
>>> The biggest Tukwila-based gear that natively supports VMS is pretty
>>> small (2 sockets, 8 cores),
>>
>> "or scale up to support Integrity eight-socket server blades
>> with 32 cores and 64 hyperthreads
>>
>>   From :http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-6045ENW.pdf
>>
>> See also :http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms_v8.4_on_i2%20server_blades.pdf
>
> You are correct, BL890c i2 now supports OpenVMS.
> I think, that is relatively new development, so I didn't see it last
> time I checked half a year or so ago.
> So I have to change my statement above from:
> "The biggest Tukwila-based gear that natively supports VMS is pretty
> small (2 sockets, 8 cores), certainly much smaller than most Proliant
> servers".
> To more conservative:
> "The biggest Tukwila-based gear that natively supports VMS is not very
> big (8 sockets, 32 cores), certainly smaller than several top Proliant
> servers, in particular DL580 (40 cores), DL585 (48 cores) and DL980
> (80 cores)".
>
> Thank you for correction.
>

Now, we currently run a full factory production system on one
single CPU (1 core :-) ) 666 MHz Alpha server DS20e. So from
my point view, a 8 CPU, 32 core, 1,5 GHz system would probably
be way more than we need anyway. :-)

 From what I have understood from the OpenVMS presentations I been
to, the reason to not support VMS on larger then BL890c blades
comes from talks to customers. There simply isn't any need.

So the comparision with Proliants is not that interesting.