Tatung's New Low Voltage Intel Xeon Processor-Based Blade Server with Intel EM64T Improves Data Center Efficiency and System Performance

Business Wire, Nov 8, 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- 4U Blade Server Supports up to 200 Processors Per Rack

Tatung Company is extending its TUD-4010 ultra-dense blade server to support up to 10 Low Voltage Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processors at 2.8 GHz with 800 MHz system bus in a single 4U chassis. The dual processor blade server supports Intel(R) Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) and enables customers to quickly assemble and/or redeploy entire server farms with new management and scalability features. Completely modular, with hot-swappable components including multiple server blades, redundant switch blades, management blades, power supplies and fan modules, Tatung's newest blade server offers built-in high availability and ease of service and maintenance, all with low power consumption. The TUD-4010 server blade system enables rapid scale out for compute clusters. Remote power control, console management, automatic provisioning and task management is provided by Amphus(R) Managesite(TM) software, which is fully integrated with the system.

Highest Density and Performance

The TUD-4010 features integrated switch blades and management blades, supporting up to 200 of the Low Voltage Intel Xeon processors per 42U height rack. Each server blade can be configured with dual power-saving Low Voltage Intel Xeon processors, with system bus speeds of 800 MHz; up to 8 GB of ECC registered DDR266/333 memory (four DIMM slots); up to two IDE 2.5 inch hard disk drives; dual 1 GB Ethernet connected to two switch blades; video controllers with VGA and SVGA resolutions and support for USB CD-ROM and FDD; plus one low-profile PCI-X or optional PCI-Express slot for various add-on cards options such as FCAL, iSCSI, and gigabit Ethernet. 3 1 redundant power supplies and two high performance fan modules keep the system running cool and offer a high level of redundancy. Components are hot-swappable with each blade featuring activity indicator LEDs for the CPU, primary and secondary networks and HDD. The TUD-4010 blade server supports Windows(R) 2000, Windows(R) Server 2003 and Linux operating systems.

The TUD-4010 uses the new high performance Low Voltage Intel Xeon processors. The processors, which support Intel EM64, enable 64-bit memory addressability for greater application flexibility, while preserving the investment in 32-bit application.

"The TUD-4010 servers deliver large gains in efficiency of personnel and improved processes in 32-bit and 64-bit applications," according to Dr. Kam Chan, president of Tatung Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), a U.S. subsidiary of the multi-national Tatung Company. "One of the main factors for the adoption of blade servers is IT consolidation. In these scenarios, IT customers can improve mission critical performance, reduce IT staffing, ensure high availability and increase system performance and utilization."

Broad Spectrum of High Performance Server Solutions

With its increased power, performance and manageability, the TUD-4010 is also an ideal platform for scientific, engineering, animation, e-commerce and HPC applications. The system's flexibility of support for upgrades in both hardware and software, offers a server solution that can grow with changing user needs and power requirements.

The TUD-4010 integrates 10 server blades in a 4U chassis, allowing up to 200 Low Voltage Intel Xeon processors in a single 42U height rack. These power and space-saving efficiencies provide direct cost savings to the data center, while the processors' support of Intel EM64T provides performance headroom. Further savings are achieved through the reduced air conditioning, UPS and backup power requirements.

"Tatung's blade servers, with reduced energy consumption of the new Intel Low Voltage Xeon processor when compared to the nonpower-optimized version, help Tatung's blade servers to mitigate heat-related issue common in today's datacenters," said Phil Brace, director of Volume Platform Marketing, Intel Corporation. "The Low Voltage Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processors help deliver the flexibility enabled by Intel EM64T and the performance, reliability, and power saving features that IT demands. Coupled with the system design and manageability software, these blade systems offer sophisticated Intel(R) Architecture-based modular computing capabilities to the enterprise."

Integrated Management Blades and Management Software Cuts Costs and Increases Server Availability

ManageSite(TM) software from Amphus is fully integrated with the TUD-4010. It interfaces with the management blade to provide policy-based automated provisioning and hardware monitoring. The integrated software and management blade allows remote management of the blade servers, lights-out and out-of-band management of the server blades and automatic switch-over for high availability. Internal AMPC serial channel communication controllers monitor voltage, temperature, speed of each blade and module, and offer the ability to cycle power, shut-down and reset any module. "Enterprise and data center customers know that management is a big percentage of the total cost of ownership (TCO)," said Henry Fung, chairman and CEO of Amphus. "With the integration of Amphus' ManageSite management solution, the TUD-4010 platform includes provisioning, monitoring and remote management, from bare metal through the operating system layer, that sharply reduce the TCO. We expect that this industry-awarded integration in the TUD-3114 will once again be recognized in the TUD-4010 that Tatung manufactures. ManageSite's heterogeneous capabilities enable these same management features to be used across all infrastructure by Tatung's customers who are adding the 4U to their existing installations."