Super Micro Computer, a provider of application-optimized server
solutions, is demonstrating its new Twin architecture server solutions
optimized for cloud computing. Based on the SBI-7226T-T2 blade, the
company’s TwinBlade server supports up to 20 dual-socket server blades
per 7U enclosure. The hardware is combined with dual 40G bps
InfiniBand, FCoE or 10GbE switches and dual 1/10GbE switches in one 7U
enclosure. Supermicro said the solution is ideal for for HPC (
high-performance computing), data center, enterprise and cloud
computing environments, especially when powered by the new generation
six-core or eight-core Xeon processors.
The DP and UP server and workstation systems support the entire range
of new six-core Intel Xeon Processor 5600/3600 Series, including the
high performance 130-watt SKUs. In keeping with the company's
commitment to green computing, these solutions also support low-voltage
1.35V DDR3 memory modules as well as standard 1.5V modules.
Supermicro's own 94 percent plus Platinum-level power supplies with
PM-Bus come standard on most of these systems, the company noted In
addition, the company offers high flexiblity in storage and networking
through its Universal I/O (UIO) interface, which allows customers to
choose from a host of I/O cards including SAS 2.0, 10 Gb Ethernet,
Fiber Channel and QDR/DDR InfiniBand subsystems.
These platforms also offer onboard IPMI 2.0 with media and KVM-over-LAN
support as well as 10Gb Ethernet, high-performance 40Gb/s QDR and
cost-effective DDR onboard InfiniBand versions for many of its
serverboards, including the X8DTT series for its popular multi-node 1U
Twin, 2U Twin and 2U Twin2 servers.
"Featuring our Platinum Level power supplies, advanced cooling
subsystems and serverboard designs, these latest SuperServers deliver
the best performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar," said Charles
Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "With Supermicro's innovative
architecture and resource sharing, our TwinBlade doubles the number of
dual-processor (DP) compute nodes to 20 per 7U, for an incredibly dense
and cost-effective 0.35U per node. This breakthrough blade design
leverages our successful Twin architecture to provide optimal
performance, density and value."
Earlier in the week the company also announced a dual-processor (DP)
Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) system optimized for enterprise-level storage
applications. The Supermicro system is a superset of the new SBB
standard. The 3U Super SBB supports sixteen 3.5" hot-swap HDDs (SAS1,
SAS2 or Enterprise SATA) with the option to expand beyond sixteen HDDs
by using Supermicro's SBB JBOD system. Each of the two serverboard
canisters supports dual-Xeon 5500/5600 series processors, six DIMM
slots, three PCI-E Gen2 slots and 6G bps SAS (SAS 2.0) connections.
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