Appro HyperBlade - Dual/Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors

The Appro HyperBlade servers are best fit for highly-computational, memory intensive applications. It offers a great processing foundation for supercomputing clusters and customers that require a flexible density-optimized Hybrid Blade/1U server to support enterprise applications. The Appro HyperBlade based on AMD Opteron™ processors with high-bandwidth DDR2 memory provides significantly better performance for floating-point applications commonly used by design professionals and researchers in industries such as entertainment, life sciences, oil and gas, automotive, and finance. The Appro HyperBlade is available in three cabinet sizes, each uniquely designed to address High-Performance Computing data center needs. Each HyperBlade node is an independent server with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system and applications and can fit all cabinet sizes offering the ability to mix and match cluster building blocks.

Mid-Cluster Solution
The Appro Mid-Cluster is a great solution for customers who would like to continue with the standard 19” rack cabinet but are still concerned about space optimization in the data center. The Mid-Cluster supports up to 50 HyperBlade servers in a standard 42U cabinet. It contains five sub-racks stacked in a row housing 10 HyperBlade nodes in each sub-rack.

Appro Cluster Management Solution: High-Speed Interconnect and Operating Systems options
The Appro Cluster Management Solution is an outstanding hardware, software monitoring and management tool that gives you in-depth visual status on all hardware subsystems. It consists of Appro BladeDome Remote Management Software and the Appro Blade Command Center cluster management appliance. BladeDome delivers server management functions, reduces IT complexity and improves administration efficiency while lowering the total cost of ownership. It provides enhanced manageability by offering Optional Provisioning Manager allowing the IT administrator to rapidly, reliably, and remotely deploy operating systems, applications, patches, and more across all blade nodes simultaneously. The Appro Cluster Management Solution is designed for the Appro HyperBlade Clusters but is compatible with all of Appro’s server products delivering a cost-effective and simple solution for system administrators.

Features
Support for Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors with DDR2
Up to 50 nodes per rack cabinet
Up to 32GB of memory per node
Up to 2.0TB SATA local storage per node
One PCI- Express x16 or HTX slot per node
Power distribution built into cabinet
High-speed interconnect supported (Myrinet, Dolphin, Quadrics, and Infiniband)
Appro Cluster Management options
Choice of Windows® or Linux operating systems.

Benefits
Provides outstanding performance for a broad range of enterprise and technical computing applications.
Excellent mechanical and thermal design
Flexible, modular, scalable blade architecture for rapidly changing environment
Easy to deploy and manage servers in a datacenter
Blades servers can fit all cabinet sizes offering the ability to mix and match blades as needed.

AMD Opteron™ Processor
Outstanding Performance - Exceptional performance and performance-per-watt solutions for today’s most demanding business applications
Investment Protection - AMD64 technology allows you to minimize the cost of transitions and maximize past investments in hardware, software, and personnel
Enhanced Power Efficiency - Designed to help reduce your power and cooling costs by lowering the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure
Optimal Virtualization - Helps simplify consolidation and improve computing flexibility with the industry’s best x86 architecture and platform support
AMD PowerNow! Technology with Optimized Power Management - Delivers increased power savings by optimizing performance-per-watt with power on demand capabilities
Direct Connect Architecture - Memory is directly connected to the CPU optimizing memory performance and reducing latencies during memory access over traditional front-side bus-based memory controllers.
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) Technology - Designed to dramatically increase the performance of virtualized applications while enabling faster switching between virtual machines for a powerful, flexible, secure server solution.

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