The HPE Moonshot system's fundamental design principle is to deliver high-density, energy-efficient computing through a chassis that houses numerous lightweight, workload-optimized server cartridges. This architecture is ideal for workloads that can be massively parallelized, such as certain AI inference, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) tasks. The primary advantage is achieving high throughput by distributing tasks across many power-efficient nodes, leading to significant reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO) through lower power, cooling, and space requirements compared to traditional scale-out servers.

A. High GPU density is a characteristic of systems like the HPE Apollo 6500, which are specifically designed for GPU-accelerated AI training and HPC, not the primary design focus of Moonshot.

C. Integration with SAP HANA is incorrect. SAP HANA is a large, in-memory database workload that requires scale-up systems with large memory capacity, such as HPE Superdome Flex.

D. Focus on archival storage is incorrect. HPE Moonshot is a compute platform. Archival storage solutions are part of the HPE storage portfolio, such as HPE StoreEver tape libraries.

1. HPE Moonshot System Family Guide: "The HPE Moonshot System uses an innovative new architecture that results from one simple design tenet: to align the right workload with the right compute... It provides a very dense

very low power compute platform..." This document emphasizes the core value proposition of density and energy efficiency with many nodes for specific workloads. (Reference: HPE Moonshot System Family Guide

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"Introduction").

2. HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis QuickSpecs: "The HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis is a 4.3U form factor that can hold up to 45 server cartridges... The chassis shares power

cooling

management

and fabric for all the server cartridges." This specification highlights the physical implementation of many lightweight nodes sharing resources

which is the basis for energy-efficient parallelism. (Reference: HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis QuickSpecs

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"What's New" and "Standard Features").