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To: Joe NYC who wrote (203349)	6/26/2006 1:46:39 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

I'm looking for HP's announcement of a huge rollout of Woodcrest servers today, and I am NOT finding it. All there is is this HPC interconnect announcement, and it is processor agnostic AMD or Intel: HP Unveils World's Fastest Blade Solution for High-Performance Computing Monday June 26, 12:01 am ET DRESDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2006--HP (NYSE:HPQ - News; Nasdaq:HPQ - News) today introduced the fastest blade system solution for high-performance computing, which will be on display at this week's International Supercomputing Conference. The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world's fastest midplane at 5 terabytes per second of aggregate throughput and the first midplane to support 4X DDR InfiniBand®, the industry's fastest blade server interconnect, which delivers up to 20 gigabytes per second bandwidth in each direction. Two members of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program, Mellanox and Voltaire, collaborated with HP to produce the interconnect solution. The HPC BladeSystem c-Class also offers increased processor and node support, more efficient energy usage and increased cooling capabilities... ... More information about the HP BladeSystem c-Class and other high-performance computing solutions is available at hp.com. Pricing and availability The HP BladeSystem c-Class is expected to be available in the HP Cluster Platform 3000BL configuration in August. Support of the 4X DDR InfiniBand option is expected to be available in the HP Cluster Platform 3000BL and 4000BL configurations in the fall. The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio supports dual-core processor technologies from Intel and AMD. The BladeSystem offers a broad choice of two- to four-processor server blades and forthcoming integrated storage blades, as well as support for Linux and Windows. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is expected to be available on HP Cluster Platforms in the second half of the year. where's the beef Petz