|
Microway's new NumberSmasher®-64 clusters and servers provide state-of-the-art, Intel®
Itanium® 2 64-bit performance for HPC, life sciences and enterprise
applications.
NumberSmasher®-64 Spec Sheet (PDF)
Product Images
Microway's NumberSmasher®-64 platform is based on the newly-released Intel® SR870BH2 2U rackmount chassis. It includes dual Itanium® 2 6MB L3 cache processors, and up to 16 GB of shared memory per chassis. This platform can be employed as a Beowulf cluster node or high-end server.
Microway includes the Intel® Software Development Tools in our fully-integrated Itanium® 2 Beowulf cluster solutions.
Example of Microway NumberSmasher®-64 dual processor 2U configuration:
- Intel® Itanium® 2 SR870BH2 form factor
- Dual Intel® Itanium® 2 1.5GHz with 6MB L3 Cache
- 16 GB DDR 266MHZ ECC/REG Memory for Itanium® 2
- 3 PCI-X slots, 2+2 USB, 1 Serial, 1+1 Video
- Integrated Ultra 320 SCSI Controller
- Dual 36.7GB U320 SCSI 10K RPM Hard Drives
- Integrated Dual Intel® 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
- Two 350 Watt Power Supplies (add 3rd for redundancy)
- Two Processor Power Pods with Y Cable (one per processor)
- Slim Line Floppy/CD-ROM Drives
- Intel® Itanium® 2 Rack/Rails
- Intel® Server Management 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Installed (Standard Edition - media and documentation)
- Intel® Software Development Tools including Fortran and C++
compilers, VTune™ Performance Analyzer, KAT/Pro, Native Itanium support, thread analyzer and Math Kernel Library
|
 |
Microway 2U NumberSmasher®-64 with Dual
Intel® Itanium® 2 processors (inside view)
|
|
Microway also offers a 4 processor of this product, please click here for more information.
Microway-designed servers and Beowulf clusters are
preferred by universities, biotech and
government funded research organizations worldwide, including
ALTANA Research Institute, CDC, GlaxoSmithKline, LANL, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA, NIH, NIST, and National
Research Council Canada. For a representative listing of Microway
customers, please go here.
Clusters are delivered fully-functional and include
MCMS™, Microway's Cluster Management
Software, and optional NodeWatch™ Remote
Cluster Monitoring and Control Solution. Microway also has
partnerships with leading commercial software providers
include Intel, Platform Computing and MPI Software Technology.
Microway has been configuring parallel processing solutions since 1986.
The depth and knowledge of our sales, integration and service teams is exceptional.
Recently Microway configured a 202 node Intel-based Linux
Beowulf cluster for the University of Maine. Microway was
chosen by the university, because we provided the exact
configuration required, at the most competitive price,
with guaranteed delivery and on-site installation.
For personal assistance, please call a sales person who speaks your
language at (508)746-7341. To request a price quote for your next high-end,
fully integrated Microway Opteron Cluster, Server, Workstation, or Storage System go to
the Price Quote Request page.
Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor
|
|
|
| Available Speeds & Cache |
1.5 GHz with 6MB L3 cache
1.4 GHz with 4MB L3 cache
1.3 GHz with 3MB L3 cache
|
| Features |
|
Based on EPIC architecture |
|
Enhanced Machine Check Architecture (MCA) with extensive Error Correcting Code (ECC) |
|
Operating system support: Linux, Windows® |
|
| System Bus |
400 MHz, 128-bit wide
6.4 GB/s bandwidth
|
|
Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States
and in other countries. Microway is a registered trademark
of Microway, Inc. Other names and brands may be claimed as the
property of others.
|
|
