Project Moonshot

Jake Ludington here at HP Discover in Frankfurt, Germany and I’m here with Helen Tang and we’re going to talk about Project Moonshot. What exactly is it? Why is it important? So Project Moonshot is a new initiative that started out of our server division last year. Our first announcement is basically what you see in front of you. This is our red stone server development platform. It’s basically an early development stage server that we also announced earlier this year in June which is a counterpart.It’s a production version. Project Moonshot is basically a multi-phased, multi-year project that’s based on HP’s ten years of experience in HP Labs doing research around extreme low-energy servers as well as comes from the wealth of experience we have from running some of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures. So we work with cloud service providers, internet companies that are just seeing explosive growth. They need to scale up their operations very, very quickly but they’re running out of floor space, they’re running out of power. So how do you solve for that constraint? Well, Project: Moonshot is a step in that direction by delivering a highly, highly energy efficient, extreme low energy server environment. So what I’m holding in my hand, this is actually a server. That’s a server? Am I correct that it has like four cores on there? Exactly. So this, the red stone environment is powered by Calxeda-on-Chips. We actually have an Intel Atom based version as well. That’s going to be in our production environment. So when a server is as small as this you can fit up to 2800 servers into a single rack. All would share switching environment, shared backends so you save on the floor space, you save on energy consumption, the peripheral devices so when you add all that together, you basically get a server environment that is about a third the cost of a traditional server environment. How does it translate to performance? Or is its performance still relatively the same? Yes, relatively the same type of computing type of performance and with the reduction and complexity because of allowing less peripheral devices that are connected to the same devices. Wow. Can I hold this for a second? Helen: Of course. So this is an entire server? Helen: This is an entire server in our hand. And you say in a rack you can put 2800 of these? You could put up to 2800 of them in, yes. Wow. I’m going to take it home. All right. What else you want to say about the Project Moonshot? So I just want to say that Moonshot is a part of HP’s converging for structural strategy and it just shows you how diverse our converging for structure portfolio is. It really is a comprehensive set of products combining hardware, software and services. Everything a customer would need to take your data center of today into a future data center that’s 100% cloud ready and is able to perform at the speed of the business. This is pretty amazing. Thank you. Thanks, Jake.