HP also announced updates to its high-performance computing (HPC) portfolio, enabling clients to maximize the performance benefits of the latest processing technology from Intel and NVIDIA.

The HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 server offers maximized processor density, with the ability to support up to eight Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors or eight NVIDIA® Kepler™ graphic processing units (GPUs) per server. The HP ProLiant SL270s and SL250s Gen8 servers now support the latest NVIDIA Kepler GPUs and newly announced Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, enabling clients to select the best accelerator or coprocessor for their specific workloads.

Pricing and availability⁽⁵⁾

The HP ProLiant SL4500 server series in a single node configuration is available immediately worldwide for a starting price of $7,643.

The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 servers will be available next month, with for a starting price of $6,166. The HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 servers will be available with NVIDIA Kepler and Intel Xeon Phi processors early next year for a starting price of $5,659.

HP’s premier Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec. 4-6 in Frankfurt, Germany.

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(1) Based on internal calculations comparing Dell PowerEdge R510 servers plus four units of Dell Power Vault MD1200 direct attach storage, which consumes seven racks, 28 servers, 112 JBOD (just a bunch of disks) enclosures, 14 networking switches, 448 cables and 79 kilowatts of power to HP ProLiant SL4500 servers consuming three racks, six networking switches, 168 cables and 31 kilowatts of power. Savings of $0.5M in acquisition costs (or CAPEX); $0.25M savings in power, cooling and distribution costs; and $0.2M savings due to rent of data center floor space over a three-year period.

(2) Based on internal testing that compares an HP ProLiant G7 server with a standard 15K SAS drive to that of HP ProLiant Gen8 server with a solid state drive.

(3) Based on internal calculations. Single-node configuration of HP SL4500 server is capable of providing up to 60 LFF (3.5-inch) SAS/SATA/SSD hard drives in a 4.3U chassis. Using the 4TB SAS/SATA hard drives that will be available early FY2013, every SL4500 server can provide 240 TB of storage capacity. A total of up to nine SL4500 servers can be installed in a single 42U rack to provide a maximum storage capacity of 2.16PB by using 540 LFF hard drives of 4TB capacity.

(4) HP internal comparison: HP ProLiant G7 to HP ProLiant G8.

(5) Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.

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