HP decided to celebrate the 10 years of HP Superdome and market it through the HP Superdome Tech day with independent bloggers by inviting them to their Cupertino office in California on October 5th. Among those present were Shane Pitman from TechVirtuoso, David Adams from OSNews, David Douthitt from Unix Administratosphere, Andy McCaskey from SDRNews and Ben Rockwood of Cuddletech. The Tech Day was structured around the release of 3rd generation of HP Superdomes and to explain the features and benefits of the gigantic super-machine. There was a long list of HP panelists who were present at the event to help us get more information about the product. The day started with a short welcome from the VP of BCS marketing – Lorraine Bartlett and then an introduction to the HP Superdome range (Past, present and future) by Jeff Kyle who is the BCS Server Marketing Manager. For those who are uninitiated to the Superdome, here’s a quick link - http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/w1/en/high-end/integrity-high-end-servers.html. The Superdome is HP’s reply to the mainframes; in particular the latest Superdome is the ammunition against the Z10 range of mainframes. It is the high end of HP Integrity servers which can run either the Itanium or the PA RISC architecture. Gigantic yet very simple machines, which I will explain in detail later.