BladeRunner II

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BladeRunner II is Penguin’s new blade server platform, which combines high physical density with cutting edge RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) features. BladeRunner II is well suited for High Performance Computing deployments with high availability requirements as well as large mission critical enterprise applications.


Intel Xeon Blade Server

New Penguin Intel blade server is based on the completely revised Xeon 5500 'Nehalem' architecture which delivers dramatically improved memory and I/O bandwidth. Intel blade provides two Xeon 5500 CPU sockets with up to 96GB RAM and six 2.5” enterprise grade SATA/SAS drives. This blade option is ideally suited for high performance clusters with severe availability and remote management requirements.

Product Highlights

  1. Two Intel 5500 series quad core processors

  2. Up to 6.4GT/s QuickPath Interconnect

  3. 8MB level 3 cache per CPU

  4. Intel 5520 chipset with up to 6.4GT/s QuickPath Interconnect I/O links

  5. DDR3-1333 RAM, up to 96GB

  6. InfiniBand and 10GigE daughtercard options

  7. Hot-swappable 2.5” SAS drives

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AMD Opteron Blade Server

AMD blade server doubles the number of CPU cores per rack unit by supporting up to four CPU sockets. By utilizing AMD Opteron 8300 series quad core CPUs this configuration provides up to 960 cores per rack; than any other conventional solution. This is the ideal choice for cycle hungry, scalable HPC applications, which need maximum horsepower in a constrained physical environment.

Product Highlights

  1. Four AMD 8300 series quad core processors

  2. 1000MT HyperTransport 1.0

  3. 2MB level 2 cache

  4. NVIDIA Professional 3600

  5. DDR2-667, up to 64GB

  6. InfiniBand DDR or InfiniBand / 10GigE daughtercard options

  7. Single internal 2.5” SATA drive

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