Appro HyperBlade - Dual/Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

The Appro HyperBlade Full-Size cluster provides outstanding performance and reliability for a broad range of enterprise and technical computing applications. With support for up to 80 compute blades, Appro HyperBlade architecture doubles the current rack density using 1U servers. It achieves high-density architecture by using commodity x86 components in a single cluster. It contains five sub-racks housing up to 16 HyperBlade nodes in each sub-rack. Each HyperBlade is an independent server, with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system and applications. The Appro sub-rack design for the Full-Cluster solution addresses your most serious issues: space constraints, manageability, scalability, capacity, performance, cooling and power. This modular solution are also designed to take less time to install, fewer people to maintain and cost less compared to most of today's 1U solutions.
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Custom Rack Cooling Technologies: Appro engineers custom power supplies and offers superior cooling systems to meet customer needs. Appro offers 3 blowers for each individual blade node. Appro also offers a rear door cabinet exhaust cooling option. This option provides improved cooling through smarter airflow management and reduces hot air in the data center.

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:

Support for AMD Opteron Processors with DDR2
Up to 80 compute nodes per cabinet
Up to 160 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 buil into cabinet
Integrated Direct Connect for power & management to reduce cluster cabling complexity
High-speed interconnects supported (Myrinet, Dolphin, Quadrics, and Infiniband)
New Rack Rear Door Exhaust Cooling Option
Appro Cluster Management options
Choice of Windows® or Linux operating systems.

Benefits:

Provides outstanding performance for a broad range of technical computing applications.
Offers the most advanced cooling technology that addresses individual blades as well as the entire architecture
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 data center 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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