Custom configurations
Many custom configurations are available, including drive configurations, expansion cards, etc.
If you don't see the configuration you're looking for, use your Custom System form so we can configure your perfect machine.
Warranty and support
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 2A2303H8 - 2U Dual Processor Opteron System
Starting at $2,300.00 |
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
8TB of native storage in a 2U chassis a few years ago would have been unheard of, but in today's world it's reality. In the case of our 2U storage system, we provide you with both quality and quantity.
Advanced Clustering uses low-power enterprise rated hard drives to reduce your total power consumption and decrease your failure rates. To help protect your data various RAID configurations are available, including double parity RAID6. We will help you determine which RAID level is best for your application. Understanding that performance and data protection are both important we install a battery back-up unit with the RAID controller. This will prevent silent data lost during power failures, and protects the write cache so which can significantly boost performance. Through the years we have installed hundreds of RAID systems and understand that these few extras might cost a little bit more, but the added security and performance is priceless.
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 FBDIMMS
- 8x SATA hard drives
- Optional redundant power supply
- 7 PCI expansion slots
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Benefits
- Power saving DDR2 memory
- True quad-core computing
- RAID BBU for extra data protection and performance
- low power hard drive options
- Multiple PCI expansion slots
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A Perfect Fit For
- Head Nodes
- NFS servers
- Lustre ODS Servers
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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
- 45nm SOI process technology
- Chipset
- nVIDIA nForce Professional 3600
- Memory
- 667MHz or 800MHz DDR2 ECC Registerd DIMMS
- Eight DIMM sockets for support up to 32GB of memory
- Multi-bit ECC enabled
- Storage
- Eight 3.5" Hotswap SATA2 drive bays
- Support RAID level 0,1,10,5,6 with Linux software RAID or optional hardware RAID controller
- One external drive bay for CD/DVD drive
- One external drive bay for floppy disk drive
- One internal 2.5" drive bay for extra hard drive
- 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 (will switch to 8x if both of the 8x slots below are used)
- Two open PCI-Express expansion slots running at 8x
- Open open PCI expansion slot
- 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
- Output power choices: Single 650W, Single 700W, or Redundant 600W.
- Univerial input voltage 100V to 240V
- Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
- Size and weight
- Height: 3.5 inches (2U)
- Width: Standard 19" rackmount
- Depth: 26 inches
- Weight: Base config 45lbs, 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
Front view of the 8 hotswap bays in the 2A2301H8
The rear view of the 2A2301H8 showing it's low-profile expansion slots
Tooless construction for opening the chassis of the 2A2301H8
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