Super Micro Showcases Six-Core AMD Opteron Server and Blade Solutions
Company demos the products at a Portland, Ore., trade show, promising to “boost performance with PCI Express 2.0 to double I/O throughput and support 40Gb/s QDR InfiniBand for high-bandwidth connectivity.”
Super Micro Computer Inc. is demonstrating its latest high-performance computing (HPC) server and blade solutions this week at SuperComputing 2009 in the Oregon Convention C
enter in Portland, Ore.†
Based on the new AMD SR56xx/SP5100 chipset and optimized for Six-Core AMD Opteron processors, Super Micro says the products “boost performance with PCI Express 2.0 to double I/O throughput and support 40 Gb/s QDR InfiniBand for high-bandwidth connectivity.”
Supermicro’s range of A building block solutions includes both DP and MP servers and workstations in 1U, 2U, 4U, tower, and blade form factors.
“Supermicro’s new quad-processor and dual-processor A server and blade solutions deliver superior performance, density, and efficiency to the HPC and datacenter markets,” says Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.
“In addition to PCI Express 2.0 and QDR InfiniBand interfaces,” Liang adds, “our high-quality Server Building Block Solutions feature extremely high efficiency, Gold-Level power supplies, and deliver advanced features–like 6 Gb/s SAS 2.0 storage, onboard IPMI 2.0 remote management, redundant power and cooling subsystems, as well as optimization for GPU computing.”
