General purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration
Product Message
Tremendous functional flexibility
Positioning: Workhorse for demanding environments providing the ideal balance between storage, I/O and application acceleration
Key Fact: Maximized application performance and acceleration with up to 3 300W acceleration cards in a 2U/2S platform
Product Positioning
Target Customers
• Best in class virtualization, cloud apps, Web tech, HPC, XaaS providers
• Excellent desktop virtualization server with I/O optimized for VDI scalability
• HPC compute engine – balanced performance, extensive storage and support of GPU or FPGA accelerators
Opportunities
• Running cloud applications or web tech
• Consolidating applications from multiple servers via virtualization
• Consolidating desktops to centralize control with a VDI solution
• Running midsized to large applications with large storage back ends
• Midrange medical imaging (remote clinic)
Customer Challenges / Pain Points
• Running up against processing limits of older generation servers – need more memory and CPU performance
• Looking for more expandability and consolidation from their current solution
• Looking for an ideal VDI solution or cloud applications or HPC
Product Advantages
- Supports up to 3 double width or 6 singlewidth GPUs or up to 3 double-width or 3 single-width FPGAs for imaging applications or HPC environments
- Drive data-intensive workloads with up to 7.68TB of memory (Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory 6.14TB + 1.54TB of LRDIMMs)
- Scale compute resources with up to two 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
- Embedded SupportAssist for faster, automated issue diagnosis and remediation
- Cryptographically signed firmware packages and Secure Boot ensures data safety