Overview
Building upon Supermicro's successful 1U Twin technology, the innovative 2U Twin² system architecture achieves breakthrough x86 server performance-per-watt (375 GFLOPS/kW, up to 25% net gain over other top tiers' 1U servers) to further satisfy the ever-increasing efficiency, density and low-TCO demands of today's high performance computing (HPC) clusters and data centers.
2U Twin² servers are compatible with existing and upcoming Supermicro twin boards, and they feature not only hot-swappable hard drives and power supplies, but also the computing nodes to facilitate easy installation and maintenance. For high availability, 2U Twin² servers also provide optional redundant power and three 3.5" hard drives per node for RAID 5 data protection.
Key Features
- Four hot-pluggable systems (nodes) in a 2U form factor. Each node supports the following:
- Intel Xeon processor 5600/5500 series, with QPI up to 6.4 GT/s
- Up to 192GB DDR3 1333/1066/800MHz ECC Registered DIMM / 48GB Unbuffered DIMM
- 1 (x16) PCI-E ( Low Profile)
- Integrated IPMI 2.0 with KVM and Dedicated LAN
- Mellanox ConnectX QDR Infiniband 40Gbps Controller w/ QSFP connector
- Intel 82576 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- 3x Hot-swap SATA Drive Bays
- 1400W Gold-level High-efficiency Power Supply