48 Cores of AMD Hotness
The new HP DL785 G6’s hit the HP web site this week. They will be available mid September. 8 sockets that support the new AMD 6 core 8400 series Opterons. It can support 512GB of RAM with 64 – 8GB sticks. It is 7u and has 6 power supplies. Really, its only use is a monster Database server or big virtual machine host. Though, I would be happy to use this as a desktop.
Pricing is not out yet but I loaded up a 785 G5 with quad core procs and 512GB of RAM for $117,703 so a load G6 will have to be at least $130k. Would I buy this for the crown jewels if I had the money to tech refresh over the next year? I cannot see it happening. I would not lock myself into a platform for the next 3-5 years on an already dated DDR2 platform.
Rumor has it that HP will release a DL780 G6 next year with 8 core Nehalem Intel procs. I am sure it will be very expensive but they should also have DL 580 G6’s with nehalem procs and DDR3. An eight core 4 socket box DDR3 box will most likely be faster that this 48 core server. Just a guess though.
However, if you have budget that you need to use it or lose it before the end of the year, this server will probably be the way to go if you need very big iron.
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