why?
I thought I to distribute 45-users for 1 Dedicated Server.
While the individual Moonshot blade is an intriguing low-power server, the most interesting part is the "MoonShot 1500 enclosure" along with the orchestration and management suite to manage 1,000's of these things together. Its sorta like taking the orchestration tools developed around virtualized deployments and then dispensing with the hypervisor by dedicating a micro-server to each orchestrated task.
See this telling note from their press release:
With support for up to 1,800 servers per rack, HP Moonshot servers occupy one-eighth of the space required by traditional servers. This offers a compelling solution to the problem of physical data center space.(3) Each chassis shares traditional components including the fabric, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) management, power supply and cooling fans. These shared components reduce complexity as well as add to the reduction in energy use and space.
Just using HPs own product line as a comparison - and sticking to derivations from their public releases - 1,800 microservers in the same footprint as a two-chassis rack of C7000 blade systems (32 dual-CPU blades when using Intel G8 blades). Assuming those blades use 10 Core, 20 thread Ivy-bridge Xeons, 1,800 microservers in the same one-rack footprint as 1,280 threads worth of current generation top-of-the-line Xeon - with more total RAM, massively more net IO bandwidth, and perhaps as low as 20% of the power consumption/heat production per rack.