I like the robustness of the machine. Similar performance could likely be achieved with other configurations, but this machine is very stable.

While reliability is important, it's not crucial for us since we're not running mission-critical applications.

We use it for data management, specifically for large-scale data management and applications.

We use this machine to create a Superdome with powerful data processing and machine learning capabilities on other dedicated machines. These Superdome machines focus on data processing and improve data management for us.

The most valuable features of HPE Superdome X are speed, performance, and resilience.

SDX gave us a very large RAM and we need that for the large-scale graph-handling applications. Those turn up in genomics for genome sequence assembly and in metagenomics. Now, people are even doing things like metatranscriptomics and those algorithms and applications right now require a very large RAM. They're not distributed, at least, not for what the biologists are commonly using in the field; we need it for that. We, also, need it for some machine-learning and large-scale Java workflows that also don't distribute.

The most valuable feature is the high availability.

The most valuable feature for us is the great performance from the nPar hard partitions. This is an option that we really like. It's easy to extend, is stable, and very robust.

It's big. One of the really cool things about Superdome is, depending on the model you choose, you can put 8-16 blades in it, but because of the structure and the engineering behind it, you can actually have your blades partitioned and they're actually physically divided. You can view it as a separate server and I think that's pretty cool, and the fact that it can scale up. 

Reliability.

It is meant for mission-critical applications. It allows you to partition your blades, basically, and also combine multiple blades together, to increase the capacity and efficiency of the blades. It's very easy to use, because we already have an older version, called c7000 series. Superdome is basically an upscale, and we have the c7000. It's very easy to use.

We just recently deployed it. We like the flexibility with the platform and our ability to stretch it across a lot of different areas of the company and product lines. For us it's ability to easily write, scale up and down remains to be seen.

We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good.

The performance and scalability.