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The AlphaServer SC40 Supercomputer


Form Factor Standard RETMA 2.0m tall racks, 230/240V
Processor/ES40 Choice of 1 to 4 833 MHz Alpha EV68 processors; each with 64 KB I-cache, 64 KB D-cache on chip, and 8 MB per processor of Level 2 cache
Memory/ES40 Choice of 1 - 24 GB, ECC, 4-way interleaved industry-standard DIMM memory
ES40 Architecture Advanced dual 256-bit wide memory data paths and crossbar switch technology providing 5.2 GB/sec peak memory bandwidth; dual 64-bit PCI busses providing over 500 MB/sec peak I/O throughput
ES40 PCI 10 64-bit PCI slots; 2-4 available with initial configurations
Storage Controllers Integrated single-channel Ultra2-SCSI, Ultra SCSI RAID, HiPPI, and Fibre Channel
Network Controllers Includes dual 10/100 Fast Ethernet, and asynchronous communications, optional Gigabit Ethernet and ATM configurations
Drive Bays Includes 1 internal hot-swap StorageWorks Ultra2 SCSI drive bay in each ES40, a choice of 18 GB or 36 GB disk drives. Four removable media bays: one 3.5" bay for diskette drive; one 5.25" for CD-ROM; and two open half-height 5.25" bays for tape or hard disk drives
Power Supply Includes three hot-swap 750-watt (N+1) power supplies per ES40.
Cooling Air, Six hot-swap redundant variable speed fans per ES40
High Availability Hot-swap redundant power and cooling, auto reboot, thermal management software, remote system management, RAID, hot-swap drives, memory fail-over, ECC memory, ECC cache, SMP CPU fail-over, error logging, optional uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and UPS Power Management Software
Service and Support HP provides a 3-year on-site, 5 day x 9-hour warranty with next day response. Optional service options for up to 4-hour same-day response time are available, as well as a complete portfolio of worldwide service offerings to maximize your critical system environment.
Operating System Tru64 UNIX with Java.
Required Software AlphaServer SC System Software is required with all AlphaServer SC Series systems. Also highly recommended is AlphaServer SC Development Software, which includes Fortran, C++, and Developers Toolkit for each node.
SC Interconnect DMA driven; get and put; Bandwidth >200 MB/sec/rail bi-directional.
SC Interconnect Switch 8-way x-bar chips; 16 or 128 port packages; up to 20 m cables; 0.035 usec switch Latency; 3 usec DMA/Shmem and 5.7 usec MPI Latency
Single System Management AlphaServer SC System Software supports system-wide gang scheduling, resource management and performance monitoring. It also provides scalable, single-system-image, high-bandwidth file I/O from all the processors to a common set of shared files.
Value-added Implementation Services (VIS) AlphaServer SC standard package includes staging and integration of the AlphaServer SC System, storage devices, SC Interconnect Switch and other peripheral devices, software load of Tru64 UNIX operating system and associated layered products. Optional services include custom site planning, custom freight arrangements, VIS engineering team travel and installation of AlphaServer SC, and tailored Customer Configuration Documentation.
Support and Training 90 days of Consultant-level onsite support is included to help address the planning and introduction of the AlphaServer SC into your environment. A full range of Training Courses is available at additional charge.
Installation Installation is included with each of the System Building Blocks and is available for quotation on additional and optional equipment.
   
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