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CobaltBlade High Density Computing Solution
 
Supermicro TwinBlade
 

Introducing the TwinBlade - Two Nodes Per Processor Blade!
The Supermicro TwinBlade is the most technologically advanced blade server system in the industry. Supporting up to 120 DP servers with 240 Intel® Xeon® 5600/5500 series processors per 42U rack, the TwinBlade achieves an unmatched 0.35U per DP node. With N+1 redundant, high efficiency (94%) 2500W power supplies, the TwinBlade is the Greenest, most energy-efficient blade server in the industry. Up to two 4x QDR(40 Gbps) InfiniBand switches, 10GbE switches or pass-through modules give the TwinBlade the bandwidth to support the most demanding applications. Onboard IPMI 2.0 with KVM over IP and remote Virtual Media over LAN enables ease of management and control.

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CobaltBlade Datacenter Edition and Office Edition
The CobaltBlade Datacenter Edition is perfect for data center and HPC applications with 14 dual processor blades in a 7U enclosure. Both performance and density optimized to achieve 672 processing cores and 4TB DDR2 memory per 42U standard rack. This powerful SuperBlade® features 100-240VAC, ultra high-efficiency (93%), N+1 redundant power supplies, along with industry-leading density, performance/watt and price/performance.

The CobaltBlade Office Edition, a member of the SuperBlade® server family, is optimized for small-medium business as well as personal HPC applications. With acoustically enhanced thermal and cooling technologies, OfficeBlade® can operate at or below 50dB with 10 DP server blades.

Unique Advantages
VA Technologies Blade Systems offers many unique advantages that differentiate it from competitors' blade products and traditional rack-mount solutions. Customer benefits include maximum affordability, reduced management costs, lower power consumption, optimal ROI, and high scalability - and in most applications, blade servers even reduce acquisition costs.

While current tier-one blade suppliers only offer general-purpose blade servers, VA Technologies Blade system is fully optimized for a wide array of mission-critical and compute-intensive applications. With in-house design engineering agility to accommodate customer needs rapidly, VA Technologies Blade system revolutionizes modular computing architecture by offering several advanced application-optimized models such as Enterprise Blade Server, Data Centre Optimized Blade, Workstation Blade and Personal Blade.

Available with 6-Core or Quad-Core CPU's and either two or four sockets for high density applications.

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CobaltBlade System

Up to 20 Servers in 7U, the CobaltBlade has the highest density in the industry! Pack more computing power than anyone else in 7U.

CobaltBlade 14 Blade DCE

  • 2P Intel 5500/5600 Series Blade
  • 2P Intel 5400 Series Blade
  • 3x 2.5" SAS2/SATA Storage Blade

CobaltBlade 10 Blade OCE

10 Blades in 7U gives you the flexibility to use either 2P or 4P Blades in one enclosure.

  • NEW! TwinBlade Dual Node Blade
  • 2P Intel 5500/5600 Series Blade
  • 2P Intel 5400 Series Blade
  • 2P AMD Istanbul/Shanghai Blade
  • 4P AMD Istanbul/Shanghai Blade
  • 2x 3.5" SAS/SATA Storage Blade
  • 3x 2.5" SAS/SATA Storage Blade
  • 6x 2.5" SAS2/SATA Storage Blade


If you would like more information or would like to talk to someone about a Blade System, please contact us on 01462 857199.
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