HP racks up 100,000 Linux server sales in UK

 

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By Rene Millman, IT PRO

Posted on 29 Nov 2006 at 14:58

HP has sold its 100,000th Linux-based server in the UK. The company has also shipped over 1,500,000 Linux servers worldwide, it has announced.

The company pointed to figures from IDC that showed 32.7 per cent year-on-year growth in Linux server shipments by the company, gaining five percentage points of unit market share.

The 100,000th server is a DL145G2 ProLiant featuring two 2.6Ghz AMD Opteron CPUs, 16Gb memory and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will be used by engineering firm Arup.

The server will be part of a cluster running Arup's computational fluid dynamics software, an application area requiring High Performance Computing (HPC). Arup uses this software in flow studies, from nozzle placement in the Eden project in Cornwall to whole building analysis of air flows within sports stadiums.

The company already has two HPC clusters from HP and is likely to introduce a third cluster soon.

Arup's Darren Woolf, Associate and CFD modelling expert said: 'By using a Linux system, our team has been able to expedite much of Arup's most complex design analysis which allows us to realise some of the most exciting buildings in the world.'