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HyperGreen
Benefits
Clusters based on the Appro GreenBlade™
System (total of 10 server blades
per 5U System)
Dual/Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors
5500 Series
Supports up to 80 GreenBlades,
640 cores in a standard 42U rack
configuration
Up to 1.0TB SATA per compute blade
Up to 48GB of DDR3 memory per
compute blade
Delivers scalability, flexibility
and power efficiency in a dense
cluster architecture
HyperGreen
boasts an 20% power consumption
reduction per node
HyperGreen Clusters doubles the
density per rack compared to 1U
servers
Improved RAS with hot-swappable
and redundant fans, power supplies
and blade nodes.
Supports a variety of configuration
and interconnect options
Server Mgmt Options: Standards-based
IPMI or Appro BladeDome remote
server management.
Cluster Mgmt Options: Choice of
open source software solutions
using Rocks+ and MOAB.
Addresses today’s natural
business growth of mid to large-sized
HPC and high-density computing
Support and Service options
Fully integrated and pre-packaged
solution to include HPC professional
services and support
Lowest TCO for support, maintenance
and upgradeability
Ideal for mid- to large data centers
scaling up to 1000 nodes
Intel
Xeon Processor 5500 Series (Nehalem)
Delivers up to 4x greater performance
for HPC applications than dual-core
processors 5400 series
Up to 3.5x greater bandwidth for
data-intensive applications
Multiple x16 or x8 PCI Express
2.0 graphics card support
Intel VT-C and Intel VT-d virtualization
technology enhancements
Intel Dynamic Power Node Manager
System management support
Key
Intelligent Performance:
---- Intel Intelligent
Power Technology makes power available
for critical workloads while conserving
power where there is less demand,
delivering as much as 2.25x more
performance in a similar power
envelope and dramatically reducing
idle power.
---- Intel Turbo Boost Technology
increases performance by automatically
increasing core frequencies and
enabling faster speeds for specific
threads and mega-tasking workloads.
---- Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
benefits from larger caches and
massive memory bandwidth, delivering
greater throughput and responsiveness
for multi-threaded applications.
---- Intel QuickPath Technology
and integrated memory controller
speed traffic between processors
and I/O controllers for bandwidth-intensive
applications, delivering tup to
3.5x the bandwidth for technical
computing.
---Larger Memory Capacity- up
to 144GB of main memory supprots
higher performance for data-intensive
applications.
---Shared L3 Cache boosts peformance
wihile reducing traffic to the
processor cores.
Key
Automated Energy Efficiency:
--- Integrated Power Gates allow
individual idling cores to be
reduced to near-zero power independient
of other operating cores, reducing
idle power consumption to 10watts,
versus 16 or 50 watts in prior-generations
of Intel Quad-Core processors.
--- Automated Low-Power States
automacatically put processor
and memory into the lowest available
power states that will meet the
requirements of the current workload.
Key
Virtualization Benefits:
--Intel Virtualization Technology
(Intel VT-x) continues to offer
investment protection and infrastructure
flexibility with multi-generation
VM migration across the full range
of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations,
enabling bigger VM pools.
---Intel Virtualization Technology
for Connectivity (Intel VT-c)
provides hardware-assisted I/O
that accelerates network performance
and simplifies VM migration.
---Intel Virtualization Technology
for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d)
helps speed data mvovement and
eliminates much of the performance
overhead by giving designated
VMs their own dedicated I/O devices,
reducing the overhead the VM migration
in managing I/O traffic.
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