14 DAY TRIAL // Super Micro Computer, better known as Supermicro, announced the launch of a new server and workstation product line based on upcoming Intel hardware components, both central processing units and mainboard chipsets. This new computer system is called OfficeBlade and it is a specially configured SuperBlade server that is well suited for work in office environments as it is optimized for quiet operation and low energy consumption.
Apart from the OfficeBlade system, Supermicro also previewed another two systems, the SuperServer and SuperWorkstation, which are also based on the Intel computing platform. "Optimized for office environments, the OfficeBlade that we are demonstrating at IDF operates at less than 50 dB! With 10 DP blades featuring quad-core Xeon processors, Gigabit Ethernet switch, chassis management module and high-efficiency (93%) power supplies, the whole blade system only consumes 1500 watts of power," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "As our other live product implementations illustrate, Supermicro already has systems fully optimized for future technologies. We also have the most optimized servers on the market today with our 1U Twin?, Universal I/O (UIO) servers with Intel IOP348 I/O processor-based (Sunrise Lake) SAS RAID cards, and 4-way SuperServers that are optimized for quad-core Intel? Xeon? MP processors."
The computer manufacturing company is launching over 15 systems which are based on both dual and uni processor architectures for both servers and workstations and they feature Intel Xeon and Core 2 Duo central processing units. Coming equipped with mainboards based on the new Intel Seaburg chipset which offers support for PCI Express 2.0 system bus and up to 128GB of random access memory, there are a number of Supermicro server systems, while at the same time the manufacturing company will soon release systems based on the San Clemente and Bigby chipsets.
These new computer systems will offer support for a 1333MHz system bus and 800MHz DDR2 memory, while the latest product line will be based on the Bearlake-X chipset, as is the case of the Supermicro C2SBX system, which comes with native support for PCI Express 2.0, 1333Mhz running random access memory and system bus as well as fast FireWire ports and PCI-X expansion slots for easily scalable applications.
Apart from the latest state of the art Intel central processing units and chipsets, Supermicro also supports the green computer industry trend so it equipped all of its new product offering, both servers and workstations, with high efficiency power supply units that are rated at 93 percent efficiency in full load conditions.