| High Quality |
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Better cooling, fewer points of failure |
| Cost effective |
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4 Athlon MP 2400+ processors |
| Maximum density |
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AMD 760MPX |
| Remotely Manageable |
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Up to 8 GB of PC2100 DDR |
| Easy to maintain |
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Up to 320GB IDE storage |
| Flexible |
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Blades and standard rackmount gear can be racked in various
physical configurations, Myrinet capable, high-end AGP graphics capable,
CD-ROM/Floppy option per SuperBlade™ |
What are SuperBlades™?
SuperBlades are ultra-dense servers
and workstations that are mounted vertically in a row into a SuperNest. A
SuperNest is an enclosure to mount and cable SuperBlades™. Each SuperBlade™ uses standard components, much like a rackmount
server, reducing total cost of a SuperBlade solution. All SuperBlades™ are hot-swappable and are provided power through an
internal power connector.
A SuperBlade™ nest is a collection of 13 hot-swappable
SuperBlades™, fans, cables and a PDU.
Cooling is rack-based, and not Blade-based, thus reducing the number of fans
needed to cool each 13-pack of SuperBlade™ servers. Each SuperNest's PDU can be pre-ordered by
choice of the user: from 110v to 240v, from 10A to 60A, standard plugs or
twist-and-lock.
A SuperNest can be configured to
accommodate either SuperBlades™ or
standard rackmount servers. This flexibility allows the user to incorporate
network switches, console servers or other relevant gear into a SuperBlade™-based rack.
SuperNests are stackable, like Lego™ blocks and can stack 5.5 nests high to
create a standard 7" rack. Nests can be stack back-to-back to form a
SuperNest-based rack that can accommodate 130 servers (5 nests x 13 blades/nest
x 2 stacks back-to-back). The remaining ½ nest can be used for
rackmounting switches and other networking gear. A SuperBlade™ nest can be replaced by a standard rackmount server
nest (base nest) to provide additional network component space.
Each nest and all SuperBlade™ racks are cooled from front to back. Nests
that are stacked back-to-back push air from one end of one nest to the other
end of the other nest. Back-to-back nests have fans that are adjacent to each
other back-to-back. The fans of one of the back-to-back pair of nests are
inverted to provide air-flow in the same direction. This enables the
SuperBlades™ to be incorporated into a
standard hot-row cold-row datacenter infrastructure.
There are three different types of
SuperBlades™ - Classic
SuperBlade™ server, HPC
SuperBlade™ server and Creator
SuperBlade™ workstation.
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