Building Itanium-based HP server

Latvian — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:00:11 GMT

Hello everyone,

I have posted before about finding a HP server to run Oracle on HP-UX. The search for a good cheap server is rather difficult so I have decided to build a one myself. I will highly appreciate if you could give me any advice/tip/guide/HowTo about builidng HP itanium baser server that could run HP-UX.

Thanks in advance

Ammar

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Re: Building Itanium-based HP server

Matti_Kurkela — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:30:04 GMT

I guess you're familiar with the PC architecture, where you can get standardized parts from various sources, and have them work together with an off-the-shelf OS. For any other computer architectures, this is not necessarily true.

The problem is, HP-UX only runs on HP server chipsets with HP firmware. You will only find those on HP system boards. (Are there any non-HP Itanium system boards for private system builders at all???)

You'll notice that HP server system boards are not designed to fit into any standard PC chassis, so buying just a system board is not a very satisfactory option.

So the situation is more like with Macs, except that there are no HP-UX equivalents of Hackintoshes.

Of course, nothing is impossible if you really want to, but I think the requirements will probably be even more expensive:

get an education on high-frequency digital circuit design (about a Master's degree at least)
license the chipset and firmware from HP (dream on!) or be a HP employee in the Itanium server design department... or scavenge parts from broken server components & reverse-engineer (if legal at your location)
design your very own system board and fabricate it
then write any necessary firmware extensions and drivers to add support for it

I'd say this is not doable for most people, but some CS/EE dual-major supergenius might be able to pull it off, just because s/he can. If you could manage that, however, I guess you could also easily get a job that pays so well you could buy several Itanium servers just to play with them.

Re: Building Itanium-based HP server

Adnan_4141 — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:40:05 GMT

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