Boston's Cloud Services division has been working closely with CA Technologies & their partners to configure a number of barebone platforms for configuration dependent on application requirements. The Boston AppLogic X9 Large Grid Node Barebone offers 256GB Memory, 16x 2TB SAS2 Hard Drives, 8x Xeon CPU's and a 1280w High Efficiency Redundant Power Supply all packed into a 4 Hot-plug System Nodes in a 4U Rackmount Chassis.
In partnership with CA Technologies, Boston's Cloud Services division has been working closely with CA & their partners to configure a number of barebone platforms for configuration dependent on application requirements. We strive to provide the best-in-class product density & performance for cloud compute and help customers when making choices on their server hardware for use with CA's AppLogic Turnkey Cloud Platform.
These solutions have been validated for AppLogic 3.1.14 Xen and 3.5.19 Xen, all of the systems include 'Rack & Play' capability with worldwide warranty packages available.
Applications
Boston Business in a Box Enterprise FatTwin Grid Nodes for CA AppLogic®
Backplane
1 x SAS2 / SATA backplane
BIOS Features
ACPI 1.0
ACPI 2.0
APM 1.2
PCI 2.2
Plug and Play (PnP)
SMBIOS 2.3
UEFI
USB keyboard support
BIOS Type
128MB SPI Flash with AMI UEFI
Buttons
Power On/Off button
System Reset button
Certifications
80 Plus Platinum (94%+)
Chipset
Intel C602
Colour
Black
CPU Family
Intel Xeon E5
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Model
E5-2620
CPU Quantity (Installed)
2
CPU Quantity (Maximum)
2
CPU Series
Intel Xeon E5-2600
CPU Socket
Dual Socket R (LGA 2011)
CPU Speed
2.0 GHz
Drive Bays
8 x (6+2) Hot-swap 3.5" SAS2/SATA
Error Detection
Corrects single-bit errors
Detects double-bit errors (using ECC memory)
Expansion Slots
1 x PCI-E 3.0 x16 (LP) + 1 Micro LP (default)
Form Factor
4U
GPU Family
Matrox G-Series
GPU Manufacturer
Matrox
GPU Model
Matrox G200eW
HDD's (Installed)
4 x 2TB SAS2
Input/Output
1 x Fast UART 16550 serial port
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
1 x VGA port
2 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
2 x SATA 2.0 ports (3Gbps)
2 x SATA 3.0 ports (6Gbps)
2 x USB 2.0 ports
4 x SATA 2.0 ports (3Gbps)
8 x SAS2 ports (6Gbps)
IPMI
IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN and KVM-over-LAN support
Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC
Support for Intelligent Platform Management Interface v.2.0
LED indicators
2 x Network activity LEDs
Hard drive activity LED
Power fail LED
Power status LED
System Overheat LED
Manufacturer
Boston
Memory (Installed)
64GB
Memory (Maximum)
128GB
Memory Sizes
1GB
2GB
4GB
8GB
16GB
32GB
Memory Slots
16
Memory Speed
1600MHz
Memory Type
DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM
Memory Voltage
1.5V
1.35V
Network Adapter
1 x Supermicro Add-on Card AOC-SG-I2
Intel i350 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet
Realtek RTL8201N PHY (dedicated IPMI)
Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output
Virtual Machine Device Queues reduce I/O overhead
Number of Nodes
4
Product Range (sub)
FatTwin
PSU Output Capacity
1280 Watts
RAID Support (SAS)
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 50
RAID 60
RAID Support (SATA)
RAID 0 (AHCI)
RAID 0 (SCU)
RAID 1 (AHCI)
RAID 1 (SCU)
RAID 5 (AHCI)
RAID 10 (AHCI)
RAID 10 (SCU)
Redundant Power Supply?
Yes
SAS Controller
LSI® 2208 SAS2
System Bus
QPI up to 8 GT/s
System Cooling
2 x 8cm 11k RPM middle fans
To help our clients make informed decisions about new technologies, we have opened up our research & development facilities and actively encourage customers to try the latest platforms using their own tools and if necessary together with their existing hardware. Remote access is also available
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