Now this is playing with power! I can only imagine what sort of tasks that these HP servers could potentially handle.

Hewlett-Packard will soon find out if its multimillion dollar support of Intel’s Itanium processor will produce a return on investment. Tuesday, HP announced an addition to its NonStop product family that yields an Itanium under its iron called Integrity NonStop. The server can scale to up to 4,080 Itanium 2 processors.

According to HP, the servers offer twice the performance of earlier models at half the cost. Integrity NonStop servers are the third Itanium-based offering from HP, which first partnered with Intel to develop the chip in 1994. [Read the rest]