HP has launched new Intel-based server modules and four applications for its Moonshot series of modular servers, hot on the heels of the first ARM processor modules launched a month ago.

The two new cartridges, like previous modules, are designed for specific applications, and plug into a Moonshot chassis. Based on Intel Xeon and low-power Intel Atom processors, they are designed for application delivery, video transcoding, web infrastructure and web hosting. 

Lunar modules
A new ProLiant m710 server includes a customized Intel Xeon E3-1284L v3 processor with built-in Iris Pro graphics on a P5200 GPU. This is being offered in combination with Citrix XenApp for application delivery.

The m710 module is also shipped with Vantrix Media Platform and Harmonic VOS, for video processing by broadcasting companies: HP reckons it can support 20 times more transcoded video streams per rack than the industry average, while cutting costs by up to 80 percent, and floor space by 95 percent.

Service providers get a new Moonshot module based on Intel's low-power Atom C2730. With this, Moonshot packs 180 servers in 4.3U of rack; with eight cores per server, this is apparently the densest CPU core count in any Moonshot system.

Finally, there's a new applications for the existing Atom-based m300 server: a Linux Web-in-a-box solution which includes a full LAMP stack with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, alongside utilities form Ubuntu provider Canonical.