The hardware supported in the HP XC system is the HP Cluster Platform 3000 (CP3000), HP Cluster 4000 (CP4000), and HP Cluster Platform 6000 (CP6000). For more information about the cluster platforms, see the documentation that was shipped with your hardware.
Table 1-1 lists the hardware models that are supported for each HP cluster platform. An HP XC system must contain at least 5 nodes up to a maximum of 1024 compute nodes as a standard configuration (larger systems may be considered as special cases).
Table 1-1 Supported Server Models
| Cluster Platform | Processor Architecture and Hardware Model |
|---|
CP3000 | Intel® Xeon™ with EM64T |
CP4000 | AMD Opteron® |
CP6000 | Intel Itanium® |