However, because IBM's system uses 32 processors compared to 64 for the Superdome, owners of machines with the IBM design could end up paying lower software licensing fees if the license is based on processor count.
Raymond James is running a data warehouse for financial advisers and sales managers on a 16-processor Superdome with second-generation Itanium 2 chips. Lower-end eight- and 16-processor Integrity models are due later this year, and a Superdome...
IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less mature collection of software, and that HP has yet to post a Superdome result with HP-UX and Itanium. In addition, IBM's cost per transaction was slightly...
The system, an $8.4m HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP now holds the top three spots, with third place running a...
HP said in a statement that its investment is designed to "vault Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers to the leadership position in the $20bn market currently served by RISC processors". One of the chief stumbling blocks in Intel's Itanium...
The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. HP's Integrity range of systems runs on the Intel Itanium line of processors.