HPE Superdome

HP Integrity Superdome, or the "black" one
Superdome PA-RISC, or the "white" one

The HPE Superdome is a high-end server computer designed and manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard). The product's most recent version, "Superdome 2," was released in 2010 supporting 2 to 32 sockets (up to 128 cores) and 4 TB of memory. The Superdome used PA-RISC processors when it debuted in 2000. Since 2002, a second version of the machine based on Itanium 2 processors has been marketed as the HP Integrity Superdome.

The classic PA-RISC Superdome was later renamed HP 9000 Superdome. The HP V-Class was the Superdome's predecessor (which was based on a design acquired from Convex).

The HP Integrity Superdome 2 uses the Intel Itanium 93xx-series microprocessor, known as "Tukwila", and is redesigned with parts from the HP BladeSystem C7000 enclosure.

Since 2012, Intel Itanium 95xx microprocessor Poulson became available. In 2017, Intel announced that their most recent Itanium chip (code-named Kittson) would be their last Itanium update.[1]

In 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise released the Superdome X, which is based on Intel Xeon processors, supporting 16 CPU sockets and 24 TB of RAM memory.

Superdome usually runs the HP-UX operating system, although the Itanium 2 version is also compatible with other systems, for example with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2,[2] SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4,[3] Red Hat Enterprise Linux,[4] Debian Wheezy[5] (Long Term Support for it has ended),[6] and OpenVMS V8.2-1.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Intel's Itanium, once destined to replace x86 processors in PCs, hits end of line". PCWorld. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Windows Server 2008 R2: System Requirements". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
  3. ^ "Installation on x86, AMD64, Intel 64, and Itanium". suse.com.
  4. ^ "Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog". catalog.redhat.com. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  5. ^ "Debian for IA-64". Debian.
  6. ^ "Debian Long Term Support". Debian.
  7. ^ "HP Showcasing Itanium-based Superdome Server Running HP-UX, Windows and Linux Concurrently" (Press release). The Hewlett-Packard Company. 2005-01-17. Archived from the original on 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2008-10-02. The full line of HP Integrity servers featuring the new Intel Itanium 2 processors is now available with support for HP-UX 11i v2, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, OpenVMS and Linux operating systems.
  8. ^ "1 Introduction". HP OpenVMS Version 8.2–1 for Integrity Servers New Features and Release Notes (PDF). Palo Alto, CA, USA: Hewlett-Packard. September 2005. p. 1. HP Order Number BA322-90033. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2008-10-02. Major new features include: Support for the following Integrity server platforms: HP Integrity rx7620 server; HP Integrity rx8620 server; HP Integrity Superdome server