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Supermicro Announces Quad-Opteron 1U Motherboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-powerhouses dept.

hpcanswers writes "Supermicro, a producer of systems for the high-performance computing market, has announced a 1U-sized quad Opteron motherboard for the OEM market. The product, which is on display at CeBIT this week, supports both HyperTransport and PCI Express. It also consumes 1000 watts of power. Supermicro's announcement is all the more interesting because the company has historically only supported Intel processors."

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  1. It all makes sense by Ancil · · Score: 4, Funny
    the company has historically only supported Intel processors.
    That explains it. They probably have a whole bin of 1,000-watt power supplies sitting around they need to get rid of.
  2. FINALLY. by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally.

    A pizza box that will actually cook your pizza.

  3. Re:Imagine what a... by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..beowulf cluster of these would do.

    nothing - after they blow the breakers. 1 kw is a lot of juice. per 1U.

    So quick - convince your boss he needs one of those for his desktop, and you'll "inherit" the dual cpu you conned him into buying a few months ago so you could "inherit" his last desktop.

  4. Re:1000 Watts of power!??!?! by ex-geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Kilowatt would be 1024 Watts. So shame on you!

  5. Re:Boring - NOT! by Overzeetop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, come on. You know your nipples got hard when you read the headline. 8 cores, 64GB of memory, onboard scsi with built in raid. Of course we can't afford it. You're not going to bed Keira Knightley either, but that doesn't mean she's "boring".

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  6. Re:Boring - NOT! by l3v1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    :D Yeah, one really has to be IT-related so as not to cough up yesterday's food when reading such comparison involving Keira Knightley and a quadX2 opteron board :D

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    I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
  7. Much better use of space by mpcooke3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This will allow for much better use of space in data center racks.

    For example I could take out 8x 1U Intel based Dell web servers and replace it with 1 8way supermicro Opteron machine.

    The Opteron server couple probably serve content faster than the 8 Intel based Dells plus with the additional 7u space I'll easily have enough space to put a saucepan on top to boil water for tea, thereby saving myself the 80p I normally spend in the data center vending machine.

  8. Re:1000 Watts of power!??!?! by ex-geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kilo=1000

    Yeah, right. That's what the power companies want you to believe.

  9. Re:Imagine what a... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...beowulf cluster of these would do.

    Run Vista?