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HP Tees Up AMD Servers In Show Of Green Spirit
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The ProLiant DL785 G6 is a four-socket server built around the new six-core Opteron 8400 series processors with a rack height of 7U. HP has yet to list the price for these systems. The DL585 G6 has a rack height of 4U and four sockets for the 2.6GHz Opteron 8435 and the 2.4GHz Opteron 8431, and is listed at $17,029 for a preconfigured system and $9,648 for a configurable unit.
The ProLiant DL385 G6 series includes four preconfigured SKUs -- a single-socket server with a 2.2GHz Opteron 2427 chip priced at $2,124, another single-socket unit with a 2.4GHz Opteron 2431 for $2,609, a two-socket system with a pair of 2.6GHz Opteron 2435 parts for $4,683, and the same two-socket system preloaded with HP's Insight Control power management software suite for $6,059. The single-socket ProLiant DL165 G6 lineup has two SKUs -- a $1,679 model based on the Opteron 2427 and a $3,929 version with the Opteron 2435, the top part in the six-core 2400 series.
The three new ProLiant G6-class blade servers range in price from $2,169 to about $9,000, though prices for the Opteron 8400 series-based ProLiant BL685c G6 systems are not yet listed on HP's Web site.
AMD's new six-core Opterons have 6 MB of total L3 cache, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and L1 cache is distributed as 64 KB of data cache plus 64 KB of instruction cache, per core. The five processors in the initial Istanbul lineup each draw 75 watts of power under average workloads.
In addition to the Opteron-based servers, the ProLiant G6 lineup now includes the DL4x170h, a $4,909 system; the DL2x170h, priced at $2,819; and the ML330, available for $1,199.
HP also introduced several green-oriented products and initiatives from its other business groups on Tuesday. The HP Compaq dc7900 Ultra Slim desktop computer is a low-power commercial unit aimed at small to midsize businesses that draws just 34 watts at idle and drops that number down to 3W in sleep mode. The unit's small footprint and nearly inaudible acoustics are partly due to HP's decision to go with an external power supply on the dc7900, which in addition to saving casing space, eliminates the need for an additional fan.
HP's Personal Systems Group is responsible for a new global consumer education campaign called Power to Change that features a downloadable widget that tracks the cumulative energy savings associated with participants turning off idle PCs when not in use.
The company's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) on Tuesday pledged to improve the energy efficiency of its printing products by 40 percent by 2011, while also adding or updating administrative tools like HP Web Jetadmin Eco Solutions Reports and the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing to its customer offerings.
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