Supermicro SuperBlade™
Why SuperBlade™
SuperBlade™ 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, the SuperBlade™ technology 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, SuperBlade™ revolutionizes modular computing architecture by offering
several advanced application-optimized models such as Enterprise Blade Server, Data Center Optimized Blade, Workstation
Blade and Personal Blade.
The innovative SuperBlade™ touts enhanced system computing density leveraged from years of rackmount server design
experience. Applying Supermicro's application-optimized engineering philosophy, each SuperBlade™ module delivers true
server functionality including up to four processors (in select models), optional InfiniBand mezzanine HCA, and supports
either SATA or SAS hard drives.
To protect customer's investment, each blade module is fully upgradeable for future CPUs. The common system architecture
ensures each blade is fully inter-changeable as well.
Saving the Green
With SuperBlade™ servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but keep red ink off your books with green
cash savings. A SuperBlade server can save more than 100 watts over a traditional discrete 1U rack-mount server. These
savings add up quickly when your SuperBlade chassis is fully populated with 10 servers. By eliminating the overhead in
1U discrete servers and using the high efficiency (up to 93%) power supplies, SuperBlade can save you $700-$1,000 per
year in power* for your servers and even more when you add the reduced cooling costs. At the same time, you will reduce
your carbon dioxide emissions by over 5.5 metric tons**, the equivalent of planting 1.7 acres of trees.
*Your electricity costs will vary by location.
**According to Energy Information Agency (a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy), saving one kilowatt
hour of electricity reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1.43 pounds.
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Applying Supermicro's meticulous design philosophy to modular computing, the SuperBlade™ is a revolutionary high-performance blade server system featuring both Intel Xeon & AMD Opteron™ processors.
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