Hewlett-Packard Co has raised its high-end HP 9000 T-Class symmetric multiprocessing servers up to Precision Architecture 7150, offering T520s with from one to 12 120MHz parts. T500s use 90MHz Precision Architecture 7100s. Hewlett is pegging T520 uniprocessor performance at 161.7 SPECint92 and 222.6 SPECfp92, estimating it will reach 37,491 SPECrate’int92, 50,717 SPECrate_fp92, and 6,000 tpm-C-plus when fully stacked and configured with a new HP-UX 10.1 release that supports large file systems and is due by year-end. (Hewlett-Packard is still promising a SPEC 1170-compliant release of HP-UX 10.X also supporting user-level threads by year-end). The T520s support from 256Mb to 3.75Gb RAM, 112 slots and up to 20Tb storage. Model 890 or T500 servers are board-upgradable to the T520, but 7100 and 7150 parts cannot be mixed in a system. The servers are also board-upgradable to the 64-bit PA 8000 expected to find it way into T-Class systems by the end of next year, around the same time a 64-bit HP-UX is due. Hewlett-Packard has boosted its K-Class mid-range servers, offering models with 120MHz PA 7200s as the K410 (quad) and K210 (dual). The K100, K200 and K400s use 100MHz CPUs. Hewlett-Packard claims the four-way 120MHz system, with up to 2Gb RAM and 8.3Tb disk, will do over 3,700 tpm-C. Uniprocessor K210/K410s are rated at 167 SPECint92, 267 SPECfp92 and 1,180 tpm-C. Two-ways are rated at 7,892 SPECrate_int92 and 12,231 SPECrate_fp92 and 1,870 tpm-C; quads achieve 15,275 SPECrate_int92 and 21,845 SPECrate_int92. T520s start at $145,000 as uniprocessors and $520,000 as 12-ways. The K210 and K410 cost from $40,000 and $65,000 respectively as uniprocessors.
