Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2011/11/2 0 <0...@0throot.com>: > > It looks like, it is meant for running highly parallel applications. [...] > > By general-purpose computing, I meant something like running adhoc > applications on the CPU. Moonshot is meant only to run certain types of > applications. Agreed :) -- Y __

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2011/11/2 Yogesh Girikumar : > 2011/11/2 0 <0...@0throot.com>: >> >>  IMO, This limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something >> different. >> Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of >> x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. > > http://arm.com/community/softwa

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2011/11/2 0 <0...@0throot.com>: > > IMO, This limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something > different. > Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of > x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. http://arm.com/community/software-enablement/linux.php I also urge yo

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2011/11/2 0 <0...@0throot.com>: > > But it uses ARM and not meant for general purpose computing. IMO, This > limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something different. > Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of > x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. I don't see

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread 0
> 89% power savings > 94% space savings > 63% cost savings > 2,800 servers into a single HP Redstone Server Development Platform rack unit > Each Core consumes 1.5 w > Each server unit (card sized) consumes 5 wats But it uses ARM and not meant for general purpose computing. IMO, This limits the p

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2011/11/2 0 <0...@0throot.com>: This Moonshot thing is really badass: 89% power savings 94% space savings 63% cost savings 2,800 servers into a single HP Redstone Server Development Platform rack unit Each Core consumes 1.5 w Each server unit (card sized) consumes 5 wats Don't believe me? check

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread 0
> I am new to the community and have just got introduced to the world of open > source. I am working at EFY, which uses open source software. I would be > candid enough to say that I am in love with this. I follow every single > discussion on LUG, but I am not technically sound enough to be a part

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread diksha gupta
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:29:59 +0530, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: >> HP has rolled out ultra-low-power servers designed for large Web >> applications, search engines, and social networking firms. The project is >> termed as Project Moonshot. These tiny servers from HP make use of cell >> phone-type

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM, diksha gupta >> they consume 89 per cent less power than conventional servers. The servers >> will run only Canonical and Red Hat Linux, and not Windows. >> >> http://www.efytimes.com/e1/72443/fullne

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-02 Thread 0
> HP has rolled out ultra-low-power servers designed for large Web > applications, search engines, and social networking firms. The project is > termed as Project Moonshot. These tiny servers from HP make use of cell > phone-type components in a server architecture. The company claims that > they c

Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM, diksha gupta wrote: > HP has rolled out ultra-low-power servers designed for large Web > applications, search engines, and social networking firms. The project is > termed as Project Moonshot. These tiny servers from HP make use of cell > phone-type components in a

[Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux

2011-11-01 Thread diksha gupta
HP has rolled out ultra-low-power servers designed for large Web applications, search engines, and social networking firms. The project is termed as Project Moonshot. These tiny servers from HP make use of cell phone-type components in a server architecture. The company claims that they consume 89