HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server technology

Introduction

The new HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server delivers industry-leading efficiencies to reduce costs in both

capital and operating budgets.

This server features the latest scale-up AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processor, a maximum of 512 GB

of memory, and up to 11 PCIe 2.0 I/O slots. This balance of new system architecture, large memory

capacity, and I/O footprint gives you the high performance needed for large-scale enterprise

applications.

The DL585 G7 is ideal for the following applications:

 Server Consolidation and Virtualization – The server’s large memory footprint in

combination with greater I/O bandwidth allows within a virtual environment the optimal

running of multiple applications along with their network traffic demands.

 Large Enterprise Database – The DL585 G7’s large memory footprint along with its

multiple processor cores provides performance when mining large databases for information.

(The closer the database content within memory is to the processor, the lesser the content-access

time.)

 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) – Effectively utilizing VDI thin clients requires a

backend server with a large memory footprint (each client requires approximately 4GB of

memory) along with the I/O capacity to move a large amount of small data packet traffic

contributed by a potentially large number of VDI clients.

 Web Hosting – The DL585 G7’s large memory footprint is optimally utilized by the memory

requirements and demands of web-hosted applications.

 High Performance Numeric Computing – High I/O bandwidth requirements of these

applications are easily handled by the DL585 G7 through its support of up to 4 double-wide or

3 triple-wide x16 General- Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs). The

GPGPUs are utilized to offload repetitive floating-point applications (numeric computing

intensive, high precision arithmetic). GPGPUs have a 10x floating point advantage over

processors.

Operating Systems and Virtualization Software Support

The DL585 G7 supports the following operating systems and virtualization software:

 Microsoft Windows

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux

 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

 Oracle Enterprise Linux

 VMware ESX

 XenServer