Why SuperBlade™?
With advanced product design and uncompromising quality control, SuperBlade provides the industry with a wide range of products that feature high-performance, high reliability and cost effective solutions. SuperBlade’s first-to-market server platforms offer fully optimized functionality and compatibility for mission-critical applications. All of SuperBlade’s technologically advanced server solutions pass a strict validation process, providing our customers with peace of mind so they can focus on growing their business.

Applying SuperBlade’s meticulous design philosophy to modular computing, the SuperBlade is a revolutionary high-performance blade server system featuring both Intel® Xeon 5400 / 5300 / 5200 / 5100 series and AMD Opteron™ 8000 / 2000 series processors. SuperBlade is precision engineered with the utmost in flexibility, high availability and reliability. Chassis management modules, Gigabit Ethernet switch modules, InfiniBand switch modules as well as 3+1 redundant high-efficiency power supplies keep the system running 24 x 7 at peak performance. Offering industry leading performance and density at a lower total cost, SuperBlade is the perfect choice for mission-critical enterprise applications and high performance computing environments.

Saving the Green
With SuperBlade™ servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but keep red ink off your books with green cash savings. A SuperBlade server can save more than 100 watts over a traditional discrete 1U rack-mount server. These savings add up quickly when your SuperBlade chassis is fully populated with 10 servers. By eliminating the overhead in 1U discrete servers and using the high efficiency (up to 93%) power supplies, SuperBlade can save you $700-$1,000 per year in power* for your servers and even more when you add the reduced cooling costs. At the same time, you will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by over 5.5 metric tons, the equivalent of planting 1.7 acres of trees.

Space Optimization

Housed within a 19" industry-standard rack, SuperBlade™ servers reduce server footprint in the data center. Power, cooling and networking devices are aggregated in the rear of the chassis which optimizes the required amount of space. Up to ten blade servers can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the 10U of rack space that ten 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the SuperBlade provides about 50% density savings with 60 servers and 24 switches in a 42U rack.

Cable Reduction

The SuperBlade™ server chassis enclosure greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 90% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers are reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers. Reducing the number of cables speeds up the deployment of servers and helps reduce troubleshooting issues by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.

The innovative SuperBlade™ touts enhanced system computing density leveraged from years of rackmount server design experience. Applying SuperBlade's application-optimized engineering philosophy, each SuperBlade™ module delivers true server functionality including up to four processors (in select models), optional InfiniBand mezzanine HCA, and supports either SATA or SAS hard drives.

To protect customer's investment, each blade module is fully upgradeable for future CPUs. The common system architecture ensures each blade is fully inter-changeable as well.
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Intel® Xeon® Processors The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, and reliability of Intel® Xeon® processor - based server systems make them the ideal choice for all of your data demanding or standard enterprise infrastructure applications. Intel® processor-based servers enable businesses worldwide to do more and spend less—with outstanding price/performance and broad 64-bit choice across OEMs, operating systems, and applications. Reliable, efficient, proven performance. Why would you depend on anything else? Intel® Xeon® processor - based servers deliver it all. Put Intel® server technology to work in your datacenter. Compare All Intel Xeon-Based Blade Modules >

AMD Opteron™ Processors Uncompromised Design. Unprecedented Performance-per-Watt. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture deliver industry-leading performance within a consistent footprint, and power and thermal envelopes. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed for optimum multi-threaded application performance. We start with a native quad-core design – featuring four cores on a single die for more efficient data sharing – and add an enhanced cache structure and integrated memory controller designed to sustain multi-threaded application throughput. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide outstanding processing power and can increase performance-per-watt to improve IT responsiveness while maintaining costs. Compare All AMD Opteron-Based Blade Modules >