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multiple I/O devices and manage, secure, power, and cool them. While HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures also provide a shared infrastructure, Project Moonshot takes the sharing to a new level by integrating the processor and chipset onto a single piece of silicon and sharing other resources across the system. Elements of Project Moonshot The innovative Moonshot architecture opens up new opportunities to rethink hardware design, workloads, and the software ecosystem around them. For this reason, Project Moonshot consists of three elements: • Low-energy server platforms-The Redstone Development Server is the first of the Project Moonshot servers. It is available for select customers and partners to validate solutions for low-energy servers. Multiple production server models will follow. • HP Pathfinder program-This program is part of the HP AllianceONE program that brings together ISVs, compute, storage, and networking companies to develop an entire ecosystem around extreme low-energy platforms. • HP Discovery Lab-This lab enables customers to experiment, test, and benchmark hardware and software for low-energy servers. They will be able to use the Redstone Server Development Platform, future Moonshot production servers, and traditional servers for comparison. While other companies may have programs to develop energy-efficient platforms or may support other aspects of extreme scale-out computing, only HP has the resources and industry-leading position to develop this comprehensive approach. Server platforms Project Moonshot platforms enables running thousands of servers in a rack in a cost-effective manner. To do this, we put extreme low-energy processors with dedicated memory on small compute cartridges. The chipset to control the system periphery is integrated with the processor as part of a system-on-a-chip (SoC). We are moving other elements such as power, storage controllers, network fabric, and management into the system infrastructure and sharing them. As a result, when you add a compute cartridge (server node), you will no longer have to power, cool, and manage other infrastructure elements. As we move forward with production platforms, we will leverage our strengths in management, storage, and networking to implement these elements as shared devices across the system. One goal of Project Moonshot is to align specific silicon architectures-purpose-built SoCs-with the right workload to provide optimal results. Therefore, Project Moonshot platforms will be able to use multiple types of processors to support different workloads. While the Redstone Development Server (our first Moonshot offering) uses Calxeda EnergyCore™ processors based on ARM® cores, the Moonshot architecture can incorporate other ARM-powered processors and low-energy x86 processors such as Intel Atom. HP Discovery Lab The HP Discovery Lab helps customers and partners validate and test their scale-out workloads on an extreme low-energy architecture. Because the Moonshot architecture is different from typical x86 servers, it opens new opportunities for optimizing software to exploit it and for developing benchmarking tools to understand it. The lab lets participants investigate, test, and benchmark applications in a secure and confidential environment to determine which computing infrastructure is best suited to their application. The HP campus in Houston, Texas, houses the first Discovery Lab (see the YouTube video), staffed by HP technology experts and partners. Customers and partners who have solutions they believe will benefit from a scale-out infrastructure can access the lab on site or via remote connections. We also plan to open Discovery Labs in Europe and Asia later. 3