[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

[MG]

On 9-apr-2013 1:19, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us
>
> [...]

HP will sell you a box with a ton of 'smartphone parts' smashed
together and calls it a server?  I guess that could work in
today's exciting world of computing...

Perhaps it's any consolation that it will be RISC (so in that
specific regard like AXP... for what it's worth, /hooray/?) and
it's at least not another 'blade' thing... right?

Then my eye spied this little interesting /thing/:

 
<http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/013686/moonshot2-614x343.png>

    - "77% less costly": I wonder, compared to what?

    - "89% less energy": Could be true, but (again), compared
      to what?

    - "80% less space": 'Compressing' 720 cores in a 4U
      RM enclosure /only/ results in 80%?  Compared to a fully
      loaded blade thing, perhaps?  Although I'd think a blade
      enclosure is a 'bit' bigger than a 4U RM system, but that
      could be me.

    - "97% less complex": ...?  I'd think that 180 processors
      inside a single system would anything but less complex?
      (End user perspective, 'not having to deal with sockets'
      kind of sentiment, perhaps?)


  - MG