HP has a new server platform based on Intel’s upcoming Atom socs codenamed Centerton ge lwa site. The manufacturer focuses with the Gemini servers on economy and less on applications where a lot of computing power is important.
Gemini is going to use of cartridges with the processors. Users can add modules or remove, depending on the computing power required. In the first instance, provides for HP the cartridges of Atom socs from Intel, but at a later stage, the platform will also ARM chips support. The Atoms relate to chips of the new Centerton-generation, which in the second half of this year.
Centerton is Intel’s chip for small and fuel-efficient servers. It is a dualcore with HyperThreading support, and a maximumkloksnelheid of 1.6 GHz. The NM10 platform controller hub is on the chip and there is for example no display-controller. The tdp is partly for this reason, with 6W relatively low. In addition, support for 64bit, virtualization and error correcting code memory
According to HP, will the Gemini servers with the chips are suitable for web servers, offline analytics and hosting. The manufacturer is expected for the end of the year the first systems to be able to deliver, but the prices are not yet known. HP belongs to Gemini under his Moonshot initiative for energy efficient servers. The first result of that initiative was the Redstone, that ARM socs from Calxeda. Those servers are only for testing purposes released to a select group of companies.