Product Overview
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 X8 Medium Grid Node Barebone offers 192GB Memory, 12x 1TB SATA Hard Drives, 8x Xeon CPU's and a 1400w Gold-level High-efficiency Redundant Power Supply all packed into four hot-pluggable systems (nodes) in a 2U form factor.
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.
Key Features
2U Twin - 4 Node Rack Mountable Chassis 1400w High Efficiency Redundant Power Supply 2x Xeon CPU's Per Node 48GB Memory Per Node 3x 1TB System Drives Per Node Gigabit & 10Gigabit Interconnect Options available
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Applications
Boston Business in a Box Enterprise X8-Gen Medium Grid Nodes for CA AppLogic®
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Backplane
1 x 2U Hard drive Backplane
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BIOS Features
ACPI 1.0
ACPI 2.0
ACPI 3.0
PCI 2.2
Plug and Play (PnP)
USB keyboard support
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BIOS Type
32MB SPI Flash EEPROM with AMI UEFI BIOS
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Buttons
Power On/Off button
UID button
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Certifications
80 Plus Gold
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Chipset
Intel 5500 (Tylersburg-24D)
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Chipset I/O Controller
ICH10R
IOH-36D
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Colour
Black
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CPU Family
Intel Xeon E5
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CPU Manufacturer
Intel
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CPU Model
E5645
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CPU Quantity (Installed)
2
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CPU Quantity (Maximum)
2
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CPU Series
Intel Xeon E5600
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CPU Socket
Intel LGA 1366
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CPU Speed
2.4 GHz
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Drive Bays
3 x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA
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Error Detection
Corrects single-bit errors
Detects double-bit errors (using ECC memory)
Supports Intel x4 and x8 SDDC
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Expansion Slots
1 x (x16) PCI-E slot (Low Profile)
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Form Factor
2U
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GPU Family
Matrox G-Series
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GPU Manufacturer
Matrox
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GPU Model
Matrox G200eW
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HDD's (Installed)
3 x 1TB WD VelociRaptor SATA
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Input/Output
1 x Fast UART 16550 serial port
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
1 x VGA port
2 x RJ45 LAN ports
4 x USB 2.0 / 1.1 ports
6 x SATA ports
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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
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LED indicators
Fan Fail LED
Network activity LED
Power fail LED
Power status LED
System Overheat LED
Universal Information (UID) LED
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Manufacturer
Boston
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Memory (Installed)
48GB
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Memory (Maximum)
192GB
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Memory Sizes
1GB
2GB
4GB
8GB
16GB
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Memory Slots
12
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Memory Speed
1600MHz
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Memory Type
DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM
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Memory Voltage
1.5V
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Network Adapter
1 x Supermicro Add-on Card AOC-SG-I2
Dual Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
Realtek RTL8201N PHY (dedicated IPMI)
Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output
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Number of Nodes
4
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PSU Output Capacity
1400 Watts
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RAID Support (SATA)
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
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Redundant Power Supply?
Yes
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SATA Controller
Intel ICH10R
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System Bus
QPI (up to 6.4 GT/s)
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System Cooling
4 x Cooling Fans