Viglen launch new AMD® based products
Viglen Optimizes Full Line of AMD-based Servers
and Blades for new Six-Core Processors
New 2U Twin2 HX420T2a with 48 Cores, 1U HX420Ta and Quad Socket Servers HX240a with 24 Cores Optimized for Six-Core AMD® Opteron™ Processors
Radlett, England June 1, 2009 — Viglen, with its peerless reputation for innovation and delivering leading-edge hardware systems to the corporate, education and public sectors, today announced that its full range of AMD HPC platforms have been fully optimized to support the new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors (code-named Istanbul). This comprehensive line of solutions includes the new 2U HX420T2a with four hot-swappable dual-processor computing nodes which supports up to 48 processing cores, as well as 1U HX420Ta and quad-processor 1U servers which support up to 24 processing cores in a 1U form factor.
“The new six core AMD solutions will enable us to offer an even better platform of products in all segments of the marketplace. Our AMD Istanbul 6 core solutions deliver great value to customers in all segments of the server, blade and workstation marketplace.”.
Bordan Tkachuk,
Chief Executive Officer, Viglen
In addition to the many performance enhancements in Six-Core AMD Opteron processors, Viglen offers Six-Core AMD HPC solutions with the following high-performance design features:
- 2U HX420T2a designs: Provide four hot-plug DP nodes, up to 256GB memory, 12 hot-swap 3.5’ drives, optional 20 or 40Gb/s InfiniBand and redundant power
- 1U HX420Ta designs: Provide two DP nodes, up to 128GB memory and optional InfiniBand
- Universal I/O designs: Provide flexible I/O customization and investment protection
- High memory capacity: 16 DIMM and 32 DIMM models with high capacity memory support to dramatically improve memory and virtualization performance
- Dual Hyper-Transport™ technology link designs: Superior system bandwidth and performance
- Hyper-Transport Extension connector design: Helps to enlarge product support scope with Hyper-Transport connection devices
- High-efficiency VRMs: Save energy and reduce electricity costs
- High-efficiency power supplies: Further increases overall system power savings
- Up to 10 quad-processor (MP) or dual-processor (DP) Blades in a 7U enclosure: Industry-leading density and power efficiency with up to 240 processor cores and 640GB memory per 7U enclosure
The full range of Six-Core Viglen solutions includes both DP and MP Servers in 1U, 2U and Blade form factors.
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