Texas Instruments Helps Advance HP's Project Moonshot with SoCs

Semiconductor supplier Texas Instruments (TI) is helping support new Hewlett-Packard (News - Alert) (HP) technologies designed to improve network performance.

The Dallas-based company is participating in HP’s Project Moonshot – and the larger HP Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem – by helping HP develop new server technology optimized to address new styles of IT workloads.

HP recently announced the availability of its first Project Moonshot server product, the HP Moonshot 1500 server enclosure which comes loaded with 45 Intel (News - Alert) Atom-based server cartridges, an open-flow compliant network switch, and supporting components. The servers will use 89 percent less power than other servers from HP and take up 80 percent less space. In turn, costs will be lowered by over 77 percent.

In fact, Moonshot servers take up one eighth of the space used by more traditional servers. The chassis shares components, such as fabric, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) management, power supply and cooling fans.

TI’s KeyStone II-based multicore System-on-Chips (SoCs), help advance efforts to deploy solutions that are tuned in to today’s extreme-scale demands. KeyStone differs from other multicore architecture in that it has the capacity to provide full processing capability to every core in a multicore device, TI officials said.

The collaboration between TI and HP over the last year illustrates that TI’s SoCs are the right fit for the Moonshot System, according to Brian Glinsman, vice president of Processors at Texas Instruments (News - Alert).

“The scalability and high performance, coupled with the low power requirements of the HP Moonshot System, enables customers to develop solutions that address ever-changing and demanding market needs in the high performance computing, cloud computing and communications infrastructure markets,” Glinsman said in a statement. “Our SoCs are an ideal solution for customers requiring this level of performance and a low power envelope, and we are excited about the opportunities our collaboration with HP brings to the market.”

As a member of the HP Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem, TI is working with HP and nearly 25 silicon, operating system and independent software vendors (ISVs) to accelerate innovation that deliver breakthroughs in efficiency and scale.

“In today’s world, where everything and everyone is connected, the stress on existing IT infrastructures is unrelenting,” added Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-Standard Servers and Software, HP. “Through collaboration and an increased cadence of innovative solutions jointly developed with our ecosystem of industry-leading partners, HP Moonshot will forever change how customers and consumers interact.”