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IT Infrastructure: Appro Releases Its Energy-Efficient GreenBlade System


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Supercomputing technology vendor Appro is rolling out its energy-efficient GreenBlade System, an offering that consolidates server, storage, network, power and management capabilities into a single package. Powered by AMD quad-core Opteron processors, the modular design is aimed at letting companies scale up their computing performance while driving down costs.
 
  • Appro Releases Its Energy-Efficient GreenBlade System
    by Jeffrey Burt
  • 1U Alternative
    Appro officials say their GreenBlade System gives HPC and midsize businesses an alternative to 1U servers, with greater density and better energy efficiency. To read an article on the system, click here.
  • High Density
    Powered by AMD quad-core Opterons, the Appro GreenBlade System supports as many as 10 dual-processor server blades with up to 80 processing cores.
  • Cost Savings
    The GreenBlade System offers a unique green blade server design and uses 90 percent-plus efficient power supplies. It also has remote server management capabilities and a choice of Linux or Windows OS.
  • Hot-Swap
    Appro's energy-efficient blade system has hot-swappable and redundant cooling fans, power supplies and blade nodes.
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