Appro GreenBlade™
System is a modular, affordable,
energy-efficient building
block solution addressing
the natural business growth
of the high performance and
high density computing applications
from small to mid-size deployments.
It consolidates server, storage,
network, power and simplified
management capabilities in
one package while providing
the performance-density, energy-efficiency
and the best ROI for your
business. GreenBlade is a
great alternative to 1U servers
and for customers looking
to scale down costs while
scaling up performance, reliability
and serviceability (RAS) at
a competitive price. It provides
flexible and modular value-add
features allowing companies
to grow at their own pace
and with a much lower TCO.
GreenBlade features hot-swappable
and redundant cooling fans,
power supplies and blade nodes.
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efficient power supplies, Appro
GreenBlade boasts an 20% power consumption
reduction per node compared to 1U
servers, significantly reducing
energy bills in the datacenter.
The GreenBlade System holds up to
10 blade servers offering a total
of 20 processors with 120 processing
cores in a 5U form factor. It provides
a variety of blade server configuration
options and exceptional flexibility
with up to 64GB of DDR2 1066 MHz
memory and 1.0TB of storage per
blade server and up to four 1625W
high-efficiency power supplies per
subrack system. In addition, Appro
GreenBlade offers storage blade
expansion options delivering up
to 2TB of additional storage per
node. The storage expansion blades
complement the GreenBlade solution
building block providing customers
with affordable mix and match compute
and storage blades configuration
options in one single package.
GreenBlade offers standards-based
IPMI or Appro BladeDome remote
server management. For customers
that require a more complete management
solution, Appro offers a choice
of open source software such as
ROCKS+ and MOAB Cluster Management
Suite from ClusterCorp.
For a pre-packaged and integrated
cluster solution based on GreenBlade
System, see Appro
HyperGreen™ Clusters.
Ideal
Environment
The Appro GreenBlade is
suited for small to mid-size departmental
and workgroup high performance
computing datacenters looking
for flexibility of system configuration
and high speed connection addressing
the need for high performance,
reliability, floor space, power
& cooling efficiency, storage
and remote management at an affordable
price. Appro GreenBlade is ideal
for HPC applications that require
high bandwidth and low latency
access to system memory, clustering
and storage area networks.
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