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

This Mini-Cluster is designed for the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market and is a fully integrated cluster solution supporting up to 17 compute blades including a master node. This is the ideal solution for customers who want to start small in a modular clustering computing environment. If transaction or database volumes grow, customers can add a full-size HyperBlade cluster cabinet that supports up to 80 nodes. HyperBlade servers can fit all cabinet sizes including a standard 19” rack offering the ability to mix and match cluster building blocks. 
 
The Appro HyperBlade Mini-Cluster provides a very densely packaged cluster building block, perfect for scaling up to meet the demands of the largest computational simulations while conserving floor space. The Mini-Cluster delivers outstanding price/performance in a truly flexible, modular and scalable blade clustering computing solution. Each HyperBlade is an independent server, with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system and applications. The Appro mini-cluster is a self-contained smalll rack designed to address your most serious issues: space constraints, manageability, scalability, capacity, performance, cooling and power.

Typical use

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 also 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.

Appro Cluster Management Solution, High-Speed Interconnect and Operating Systems options:
The Appro Cluster Management Solution is an outstanding hardware and software monitoring and management tool that gives you in-depth visual status on all your hardware subsystems. It consists of Appro BladeDome Remote Management Software and Appro Command Center, cluster management appliance. Appro BladeDome delivers server management functions, reduces IT complexity and improves administration efficiency while lowering the total cost of ownership. It now 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 Appro offers high-speed interconnect options such as Myrinet, Dolphin, Quadrics and InfiniBand™ for all cluster solutions. Appro also offers a choice of Linux or Windows operating systems.

Features

Supports AMD Opteron Processors with DDR2
Up to 17 compute nodes maximum per cabinet
Up to 34 AMD Opteron Processors
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-in to 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 PowerNow! technology with Optimized Power Management (OPM) delivers performance
on demand while minimizing power consumption.
AMD Opteron™ processor with engergy-efficient DDR2 memory offer greater memory bandwidth, improved memory RAS, and cost savings.
Upgrading to Quad-Core in the same thermal envelope allows customers to increase capacity without altering datacenter infrastructure.
Reduce processor cooling requirements in your IT infrastructure with the low power AMD Opteron™ processor HE. This is an ideal solution for rack-dense 1U servers or blades in data centers.
PCI-Express technology to increase I/O bandwidth and reduce system latency
Leading-edge 32-bit performance with 64-bit capabilities
1U XtremeServer supports low-power AMD Opteron™ processors providing uncompromised performance.
Direct Connect Architecture design of the AMD Opteron™ processors, memory is directly connected to the CPU optimizing memory performance, reducing latencies during memory access over traditional front-side bus-based memory controllers.
AMD Virtualization Support

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