Features/ Benefits

Designed for HPC and Built to Scale
• Delivering 4TF to over 1,000TF of combined capability and capacity computing power.
• Dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, delivering 64 nodes/128 CPUs/512 cores in a standard rack cabinet.
• Complete lights-out management and scheduling software including network, server, cluster, and storage management.
• Single or Dual-Rail Infiniband Network options.
• All critical components are easily accessible and hot-swappable including power supplies, fans and switches for reliability and servicability.

Energy-Efficient (Green) Architecture
• Reduced total cost of ownership with improved system density, reliability and computing capability while keeping the datacenter cool.
• Appro Water Cooled Rear Door cabinet options improves cooling efficiency of the entire system by up to 8X.
• “Power-Factor-Corrected” redundant power supplies that are 94% efficient compared to the 70% to 80% of regular power supplies.

Simplifies IT Management and Administration
• Complete lights-out management system
• Supports root file systems offering instant provisioning for rapid, standard Linux installs on large diskless systems allowing them to boot 100 to 1,000 blades in about the same time.

Appro Cluster Engine™ Management Software
• Network Management
• Server Management
• Cluster Management
• Storage Management

Appro Cluster Management Architecture
• Scalable to very large configurations
• Hierarchical architecture
• Supports multiple interconnect topologies
• Diskless operation without lightweight kernel
• Reliable, available, serviceable (RAS)
     - Run-through network fault tolerance

Support and Services
• Closed-loop solution management, up-front consulting, pre-integration and testing with pre-sales and post-sales support.
• Support for Linux operating environments, with configurations that provide exceptional performance across a wide range of HPC applications.

AMD Opteron™ Processors

• Outstanding Performance - Exceptional performance and performance-per-watt solutions for today’s most demanding business applications
• Investment Protection - AMD64 technology allows you to minimize the cost of transitions and maximize past investments in hardware, software, and personnel
• Enhanced Power Efficiency - Designed to help reduce your power and cooling costs by lowering the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure
• Optimal Virtualization - Helps simplify consolidation and improve computing flexibility with the industry’s best x86 architecture and platform support
• AMD PowerNow! Technology with Optimized Power Management - Delivers increased power savings by optimizing performance-per-watt with power on demand capabilities
• Direct Connect Architecture - Memory is directly connected to the CPU optimizing memory performance and reducing latencies during memory access over traditional front-side bus-based memory controllers.
• AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) Technology - Designed to dramatically increase the performance of virtualized applications while enabling faster switching between virtual machines for a powerful, flexible, secure server solution.