Boston + Supermicro + Intel = Your Success
Posted on 06 March 2012
After months of behind the scenes intense work with our key partners Supermicro and Intel we're ready to announce Boston's massive range of Intel Xeon E5-2600-series processor based solutions.
These new CPUs are so exciting because they are based on the new Sandy Bridge architecture so are the fastest processors available today. Each CPU has up to eight native execution cores plus a further eight virtual cores thanks to Hyper-Threading technology.
Other key features include independent quad-channel DDR3 memory controllers inside each CPU for improved memory bandwidth and native SAS and SATA 6Gb/sec on-board. The Xeon E5-2600-series processors are also the first CPUs to support the new PCI-E 3.0 bus, which provides double the bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 to compatible expansion cards.
Our new solutions range all the way from 4U servers that can support two 8-core CPUs, up to 768GB of RAM, up to 108TB of storage and multiple graphics cards down to single-processor ATX motherboards for entry-level workstations.
Boston’s own solutions fall into several distinct families, the award-winning Quattro range of two and four node servers that can include up to eight of Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600-series processors in a single 2U rackmount case. That’s 64 cores, or 128 threads from a single 2U case, or a whopping 2,688 threads if you filled an industry standard 42U rack with Quattros.
Another great range of products based on the new processors is our family of Igloo storage appliances. These range from 2U appliances that can support up to 36TB of storage all the way up to 4U models that can address up to 108TB of storage.
Boston is also proud to announce a new range of Venom workstations and GPU Compute solutions, both of which deliver best-in-class performance in computationally intensive applications such as CAD, CAM, CAE, CFD, simulation and scientific research.
As a key distributor for Supermicro worldwide, Boston will also be supplying a wide of building block components for the new Intel Xeon E5-2600-series processors. Key members of this family include Supermicro’s range of scalable, efficient SuperServers of which they are over 51 different models covering a wide array of form factors, budgets and performance. Boston is also proud to carry the full range of Supermicro X9 generation motherboards, of which they are also more than 50. You’ll also not be short of cases and power supplies to choose from either, as we now carry a massive variety of colours and form factor.
Over the coming weeks we’ll go into more detail about the specific models that we can now supply to customers, plus what we hope will be some glowing reviews from the technical press.
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