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.