Dense general-purpose scale-out compute node
Product Message
Tremendous density and flexibility
Positioning: Optimized for dense, scale-out computing in a 1U/2S platform.
Key Fact: The Intel Xeon Scalable Processor powered R440 delivers the perfect combination of performance and density for HPC and web-tech deployments.
Product Positioning
Target Customers
• Superior density for HPC, web-tech, virtualization and software defined storage environments
• Optimized depth for scale-out deployments
• Dense software defined storage
Opportunities
• HPC
• Web-tech
• Dense virtualization and software defined storage
• Service providers: Application tier
Customer Challenges / Pain Points
• Looking for very dense 1U node and do not need full performance of R640
• Want a dense software defined storage node
• Want to expand concurrent users without increasing datacenter footprint
• Want the performance of NVMe capabilities
Product Advantages
- Up to 10 2.5” drives or up 4 x 3.5”
- Up to 4 NVMe PCIe drives
- Scale compute resources with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- 27% more processing cores and 50% more bandwidth with Xeon®SP vs Xeon®E5 v4
- Embedded SupportAssist for faster, automated issue diagnosis and remediation
- Cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot ensures data safety
- Security lockdown that protects your server configuration and firmware (BIOS, iDRAC, & RAID) from malicious changes