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

[Neil Rieck]

On Monday, April 8, 2013 7:45:23 PM UTC-4, MG wrote:
> On 9-apr-2013 1:19, Neil Rieck wrote:
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> > Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us
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> HP will sell you a box with a ton of 'smartphone parts' smashed
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> together and calls it a server?  I guess that could work in
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> today's exciting world of computing...
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> Perhaps it's any consolation that it will be RISC (so in that
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> specific regard like AXP... for what it's worth, /hooray/?) and
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> it's at least not another 'blade' thing... right?
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> Then my eye spied this little interesting /thing/:
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> <http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/013686/moonshot2-614x343.png>
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>     - "77% less costly": I wonder, compared to what?
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>     - "89% less energy": Could be true, but (again), compared
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>       to what?
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>     - "80% less space": 'Compressing' 720 cores in a 4U
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>       RM enclosure /only/ results in 80%?  Compared to a fully
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>       loaded blade thing, perhaps?  Although I'd think a blade
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>       enclosure is a 'bit' bigger than a 4U RM system, but that
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>       could be me.
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>     - "97% less complex": ...?  I'd think that 180 processors
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>       inside a single system would anything but less complex?
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>       (End user perspective, 'not having to deal with sockets'
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>       kind of sentiment, perhaps?)
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>   - MG

Yep, and on top of that, there's a little voice in my head saying "Really, HP is going to build a new server line on another specialty chip from Intel?".

NSR