First launched by Supermicro over a year ago, the FatTwin is a high-capacity, ultra-dense server solution that contains up to eight separate dual-CPU nodes, each supporting up to 3 Xeon Phi Coprocessor cards in one 4U chassis. Now, working together with CoolIT, Boston has enhanced the efficiency of the FatTwin by utilising CoolIT's Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC™) technology - effectively removing the head generated by the CPU's by circulating liquid directly across customised cooling blocks in direct contact with hotspot areas.
By using Direct Contact Liquid Cooling, dependence on expensive air conditioning and air handling systems is dramatically reduced. This enables more FatTwin servers per rack, reduced power usage per server, and releases performance headroom through efficient heat management. The DCLC technology removes heat by circulating liquid directly across the cooling blocks of the CPU, ensuring that maximum efficiency is achieved.
The density and performance enabled by combining the FatTwin server architecture with CoolIT DCLC technology was selected by Intel® to deliver a high performance compute cluster on the show floor at SC '13 (pictured below). The impressive cluster featured 9,936 cores and reached 131.2 Teraflops, ranking the system 400th on the Top500 list of Supercomputers. Particularly impressive was the power consumption figure of only 74.25kW, an amazing feat for a system that produced over a kilowatt of heat per node for CoolIT's liquid cooling to manage.
Key features of the Boston FatTwin Liquid Cool Edition include:
- Modular architecture for easy maintenance
- Double the compute density over traditional 1U rack-mount configurations
- 6x 2.5" hot-swap HDDs per node to satisfy I/O intensive applications
- Support for latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 V2 series processors & DDR-3 1866MHz memory
Speak to the Boston sales team about how your datacentre can benefit from the density, efficiency and performance of combining FatTwin servers with CoolIT DCLC technology - or visit Boston at HiPC, Bangalore to see the Liquid Cooled FatTwin for yourself!