Enabling Performance-per-Watt Gains in High-Performance Cluster Computing
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Flexibility, Scalability and Performance-per-Watt In today’s datacenters, flexibility, scalability and performance-per-watt are all key factors influencing platform selection. By incorporating the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family into their Xtreme-XTM Supercomputers, Appro brings significant flexibility to HPC workload configurations that include capacity, hybrid, data intensive and capability computing. Built upon industry standard optimized server platforms, the new Appro Xtreme-XTM Supercomputer enables high compute density, increased performance-per-watt, high-performance network connectivity, streamlined I/O and diverse storage options. For highperformance networking topologies, the Appro Xtreme-XTM Supercomputer enables flexibility—offering Fat Tree (InfiniBand or Ethernet) or 3D Torus (InfiniBand) in singleor dual-rail configurations. The system also provides significant savings in power consumption through the intelligent design of the blade server platform featuring large, shared low-power fans, 208V or 277V platinum-rated power supplies, high-efficiency cooling, and integrated console management functionality. In addition, it provides the flexibility to take full advantage of liquid cooling solutions and system configuration options to meet ever-increasing wide-ranging data center architecture requirements.
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