Solutions
HPC Systems, Inc. offers customized server and cluster solutions to meet any business needs.  With our help, you can customize a cluster based on an array of different platforms from a 1U single server, high availability blade solution, to a high performance 16 core super computer.
Recently, the availability of off-the-shelf commodity powerful microprocessors and high-speed networks as well as in part by the rapidly maturing software components available to support high performance and high availability applications, have made AMD based clusters very popular. The benefits of clusteing includes:
Cluster Building Block
  • Ease of manageability
  • Low cost for system administration, single point-of-control for large set of     servers and nodes
  • Workload manager and isolation of non-production workloads
  • Improved availability by providing component redundancy, hot plug power,     and cooling components and service processors
  • Excellent scalability
  • New low-cost cluster alternatives, by providing clustering possibilities for     small set of servers
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    HPC Systems, Inc. has many different solutions for different range of clusters that are possible. Our technical sales engineers can guide you through our cluster building block to arrive at the solution that is optimal for you.
     
    System Packaging High Density Blade Quad Server Intel Twin
    # of processors per 42U cabinet
    (min / max)
    480 336 336
    Microprocessor type AMD Opteron™
    dual core
    AMD Opteron™
    dual core
    Intel Xeon 5100/5300
    # of processors core per system 8 8 8 or 16
    Per System Memory (min / maximum) 512MB / 64GB 512MB / 64GB 512+512 MB / 32+32 GB
    Reliability, Availability, Servicability
    ECC Memory Yes Yes Yes
    Hot Swap Disks Yes Yes Yes
    Redundant Power Supplies Yes No No
    Hotswap Cooling Yes No No
    Capacity
    PCI Express Slots available No Yes (One x16) Yes (One x8 or 133 PCI-X)
    Maximum PCI bus speed (Mhz) CPU Speed CPU Speed 1066/1333 MHz
    Disk bays per system (maximum) 2 3 4
    Cluster Interconnect
    Gigabit Ethernet Standard Standard Standard
    Infiniband Optional Optional Optional
    Myrinet 2000 N/A Optional Optional
    Communications and connectivity
    Serial / asynchronous Yes Yes Yes
    Gigabit Ethernet Yes Yes Yes
    System Management IPMI 2.0 IPMI 2.0 IPMI 2.0
    Software Linux
    Windows
    Linux
    Windows
    Linux
    Windows
    Rack Cabinet Standard 42U Standard 42U Standard 42U
    Serial Console Management Optional Optional Optional
    Power Distribution Unit APC Optional APC Optional APC Optional
    UPS APC Optional APC Optional APC Optional