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Many custom configurations are available, including drive configurations, expansion cards, etc.
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All systems come with our standard 9x5 one year cross-ship return to depot warranty. Upgraded warranty options including multiple years, 24x7, and on-site service are available. Read more information about our warranties.
Lifetime technical support is included with every Advanced Clustering system. This includes support via, email, or our toll-free support telephone line.
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Pinnacle 1A2304 - 1U Dual Processor Opteron System
Starting at $1,257.00
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Now available with AMD 45nm "Shanghai" CPUs
Click on the configure tab to build your system with AMD's new 45nm Opteron processor.
Features and Benefits
Not all Quad-Core Opteron systems are created equal, even before the AMD quad-core processors arrived, we started working to design the perfect 1U Opteron compute server. Not all motherboards, memory and chassis were created equal, and we have tested, and then tested some more to find the best high-quality and top performing components - and when we couldn't find them we designed them ourselves.
Less known features like Dynamic Power Management (also known as split-plane power) are included in this system to provide that extra performance boost. Our chassis was designed with the flexibility to even cool the hottest components. We have added in shock mounting brackets to the hard drives and fans to prevent vibrations, which will help reduce component failures. The 1A2302 is designed and built for floating point applications, and jobs that need high memory bandwidth and low memory latency. Put the computational powerhouse to work for you.
Our knowledgeable sales and technical staff will walk you through the process of determining if this system is right for you. This includes: understanding your application, heating and cooling challenges, space requirements, software and management needs. Knowledge of your application and requirements will help us serve you better, and ensure that you get the perfect Pinnacle server.
Need pricing? Go to our configuration tab for all of your options and we'll get you pricing right away, and don't hesitate to give us a call or email. We are always glad to help!
Features
- Quad-Core AMD 2300 series processors
- Up To 32GB DDR2 memory
- Shock mounted hard drives and fans
- 16x PCI-Express slot
- Up to two SATA hard drives
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Benefits
- True quad-core computing
- Increased memory bandwidth
- Low power hard drives available
- 4 floating point operations per second, per core
- "Green" power supply with greater than 80% efficiency
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A Perfect Fit For
- Designed specifically to be a compute node powerhouse
- Jobs requiring high memory bandwidth and low memory latency
- Customers already heavly invested in an AMD cluster, the 1A2302 is an easy drop-in upgrade or addon node
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Technical Specifications
- In the box
- Server system
- Rackmounting hardware
- 110V power cord
- Documentation
- Processor
- One or two Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2300 series procesors
- 512KB of L2 Cache per core
- 4MB of L3 Cache per processor
- 65nm SOI process technology
- Chipset
- Memory
- 800MHz or 667MHz DDR2 ECC Registerd DIMMS
- Eight DIMM sockets for support up to 32GB of memory
- Multi-bit ECC enabled
- Storage
- Two 3.5" SATA2 drive bays
- Support RAID level 0-1 with Linux software RAID or optional Hardware controller
- Drives shock mounted into enclosure to prevent vibration related failures
- One 5.25" external drive bay for CD/DVD drive
- Hotswap drive bays optional.
- Management
- Serial console redirection support
- Optional IPMI 2.0 module
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- I/O connections
- One open PCI-Express expansion slot running at 16x
- Two independent 10/100/1000Base-T (Gigabit) RJ-45 Etherent interfaces
- Keyboard and Mouse PS/2 connectors
- Four USB 2.0 ports, 2 on rear panel, 2 on front panel
- One DB-9 serial port (RS-232)
- One VGA port with 32MB memory
- Electrical Requirements
- High-efficency power supply (greater than 80%)
- Output Power: 560W
- Univerial input voltage 100V to 240V
- Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
- Size and weight
- Height: 1.75 inches (1U)
- Width: Standard 19" rackmount
- Depth: 27 inches
- Weight: Base config 30lbs, varies based on configuration
- Operating System Software
- RedHat Linux 4 and newer (most other distributions supported, call for details)
- Windows XP and newer
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AMD Quad-Core Opterontm
 Like no other processor on the market, AMD has broken from the traditional mold of having the memory controller on the motherboard, and moved it to the processor. By doing this, memory latency has dropped and bandwidth has increased. So, if you have a job that needs big memory, high memory bandwidth, and/or low memory latency the Opteron is a smart choice. Each core has it's own independent L1 and L2 cache and a shared 2MB L3 cache. Core prefetchers can pull data directly from L1 cache to decrease latency and spares L2 bandwidth. The prefetechers intelligently predict and retrieve data needed from main memory.
Third-Generation AMD Opterontm Processor- Features and Benefits
- The low power consumption inherent in DDR2 memory when compared to other technologies helps reduce power and cooling for improved overall TCO.
- Larger memory buffers for increased throughput
- DRAM prefetcher to intelligently predict and retrieve data needed from main memory
- Core prefetchers can pull data directly from L1 cache to decrease latency and to spare L2 bandwidth
Socket F (1207) System Compatibility
- Quad-core availability in the same thermal envelopes as Second Generation AMD Opteron processors allows you to increase computing capabilities without altering data enter Infrastructure.
- Enables an easy platform transition from Dual -to Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors without sacrificing exisiting investments in hardware, software and personnel.
HyperTransporttm Technology
- Provides a scalable bandwidth interconnect between processors, I/O subsystems, and other chipsets
- Support up to 2 coherent dual HyperTransport links, providing up to 16.0GB /s peak bandwidth per processor.
- Up to 8.0GB/s bandwidth per HyperTransport link, providing sufficient bandwidth for supporting I/O and interconnect technologies including PCI-Express, InfiniBand and 10G Ethernet.
AMD Balanced Smart Cache
- Large shared L3 cache shares data between cores efficiently while helping reduce latency to main memory
- Dedicated L1 and L2 cache per core helps performance of virtualized environments and large databases by reducing cache pollution associated with a shared L2 cache.
AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator
- 128-bit SSE floating-point capabilities enable each processor core to simultaneously execute four flops per clock (four times the floating point computations of previous AMD Opteron processors) for significantly improved performance in compute-intensive and workstation applications
Design Gallery
Inside view of the 1A2302
Back view of the 1A2302
Our "green" greater than 80% efficient power supply
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