Small cluster for individual research groups, with 4 nodes and 64 cores. It offers an excellent price/performance ratio for an initial reduced investment. The 10 Gbit/s interconnection ensures a high throughput, without the need of a switch. The 2U "multi-node" chassis hosts 4 dual socket motherboards, offering high density, low energy consumption and reduced price. It can be extended by adding other similar modules.

Configuration

• Rack: 25U fully-equipped
• Frontend:
  
  • 1U rack chassis
  • redundant power supply
  • double Intel Xeon CPU starting from 6 cores
  • RAM 32 GB
  • double SATA hard-disk 2 TB 7.200 RPM in RAID1
• Nodi di calcolo: 2U multi-node chassis with 4 mainboards configured as follows
  
  • 2 Intel Xeon CPUs starting from 8 cores
  • 32 GB RAM
  • SATA hard-disk 500 GB 10.000 RPM
• Interconnection: 10 Gbit/s Ethernet
• Consolle: monitor, keyboard, mouse on shelf
• Software: Aethia Beolive Cluster Manager
• Hardware warranty: starting from 2 years on-center
• Remote software assistance: 6 months included

Options:
EXA-S1 storage server
EXA-S2 storage
GPU Nvidia Tesla accelerator
Intel Xeon Phi Manycore accelerator
UPS
Remote monitoring service with email alerts