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BladeRunner II is Penguin’s new blade server platform, which combines high physical density with cutting edge RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) features. BladeRunner II is well suited for High Performance Computing deployments with high availability requirements as well as large mission critical enterprise applications.


Intel Xeon Blade Server

This Intel Xeon blade server provides two Xeon 5400 sockets with up to 64GB RAM and six 2.5” enterprise grade drives. Unlike typical enterprise server platforms, this blade server is based on the latest Intel 5400 ‘Seaburg’ chipset. The Platform supports advanced performance features such as 1600MHz front side bus and Fully Buffered DDR2-800 RAM.

Product Highlights

  1. Two Intel 5400 series quad core processors

  2. 1600MHz Front Side Bus

  3. 12MB level 2 cache

  4. Intel 5400 ‘Seaburg’

  5. Fully Buffered DDR2-800, up to 32GB

  6. InfiniBand DDR or InfiniBand / 10GigE daughtercard options

  7. 6 hot-swappable 2.5” SAS drives


AMD Opteron Blade Server

AMD blade server doubles the number of CPU cores per rack unit by supporting up to four CPU sockets. By utilizing AMD Opteron 8300 series quad core CPUs this configuration provides up to 960 cores per rack; than any other conventional solution. This is the ideal choice for cycle hungry, scalable HPC applications, which need maximum horsepower in a constrained physical environment.

Product Highlights

  1. Four AMD 8300 series quad core processors

  2. 1000MT HyperTransport 1.0

  3. 2MB level 2 cache

  4. NVIDIA Professional 3600

  5. DDR2-667, up to 64GB

  6. InfiniBand DDR or InfiniBand / 10GigE daughtercard options

  7. Single internal 2.5” SATA drive