SYSTEMS

SAN DIEGO, CA -- RackSaver, a leading provider of high-density rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters today announced its BladeRackTM line of ultra-dense servers. The new BladeRack servers are ideal for organizations requiring greater computing power in a more dense form factor. RackSaver’s BladeRackTM will house up to 66 RS-1100V RackBladesTM featuring up to two 2.4GHz Intel® XeonTM processors per blade totaling 132 Intel Xeon processors contained in a 7’ cabinet. The new BladeRackTM systems feature the most compact, space saving design available. BladeRack’s 7' tall 38" deep 24" wide cabinet is the first full production BladeRackTM with 132 Intel Xeon processors (66 nodes), 66 GB’s of DDR ECC REG PC-2100 Corsair memory, based on Supermicro’s new P4DPR-6GM+ motherboard. Further separating BladeRackTM from the competition is its proprietary, patent pending cooling subsystem which delivers performance and savings that are simply unavailable elsewhere in the market today. Unlike other vendors’ offerings, customers will not, upon closer inspection, find a system that uses a proprietary backplane. Only RackSaver’s BladeRack uses “truly” non-proprietary, interchangeable “off the shelf” components. “We’re very excited about BladeRackTM for a number of reasons. It is the only system of its kind in the market that can accommodate 132 Intel Xeon processors in one seven foot cabinet,” said David Driggers, RackSaver CTO & CEO. “Other reasons are its accessibility and scalability. BladeRackTM is a system designed to not only speed a customer’s business processes, but also to grow with that customer and their computing needs as they evolve over time.” BladeRackTM incorporates Intel's groundbreaking Hyper-Threading Technology, a new on-processor innovation, allowing multi-processing applications to execute more than one thread per processor, increasing the throughput of server applications, and enabling scaling with processing requirements to handle future workloads. It also takes advantage of the new Intel® E7500 chipset, which delivers maximized system bus, memory and I/O bandwidth to enhance not only performance, but scalability. “The performance leadership and higher density of our processors are the results of continuous enhancements in the design and manufacturing process technology of our Intel Xeon processor family,” said Richard Dracott, Group Director, Enterprise Platforms Group. “We will continue to work closely with RackSaver to incorporate this leading-edge technology into their BladeRack product offerings.” Other BladeRackTM advantages over the competition include its scalable, easily accessible, hot-swap capability, which applies not only to fans and networking equipment, but to the servers themselves, making upgrades and routine service a breeze. Need more power? Simply add another BladeRackTM. These capabilities allow RackSaver’s BladeRackTM systems to grow with a customer’s business rather than whither and fall victim to obsolescence. "Supermicro always strives to be the first company to deliver products with new technologies to the marketplace thus giving our customers every competitive edge possible," said Dr Charles Liang, President, CEO and founder of Supermicro Computer. "Our new Intel Xeon processor-based server solutions are unmatched in terms of system performance, computing density, price performance and high-availability, thus enabling RackSaverTM to design and deliver the exciting BladeRackTM solution for enterprise computing.”