bullx R425 E2

The bullx R425 E2 system will be used as Visualization Node in the extreme computing clusters. It comprises:

• 2 state-of-the-art Intel® Xeon® 5500 (Nehalem-EP) or 5600 (Westmere-EP) serie processor sockets containing each:

	5500 Serie	5600 Serie
Number of  cores	4	6
L3 Cache size	8 MB	12 MB
QPI link speed	6,4 GT/s	6,4 GT/s

• 18 DDR3 DIMM

With 5500 serie Processors (Nehalem-EP)
Up to 144 GB with 8 GB DIMM   800 MHz
Up to   96 GB with 8 GB DIMM 1066 MHz
Up to   48 GB with 8 GB DIMM 1333 MHz

With 5600 serie Processors (Westmere-EP)
Up to 192 GB with 16 GB DIMM   800 MHz
Up to 144 GB with   8 GB DIMM 1066 MHz
Up to   96 GB with   8 GB DIMM 1333 MHz
 

• Intel® S5520 chipset:  2 x Tylersburg  IOH with 6.4 GT/s QPI 

• Expension slots

2 PCIe 2.0 x16
4 PCIe 2.0 x8
1 PCIe 2.0 x4
All high-profile PCIe

• Compatible accelerators & graphics cards

NVIDIA® Tesla™ Computing Processor C2050/C2070
NVIDIA® Tesla™ 1U Computing System S2050
NextIO vCore Express 2070 1U Computing System
NVIDIA® Quadro 4000/5000/6000 graphics cards

• Built-in controllers

1 Kawela Gigabit Ethernet dual ports
1 iBMC controller

• Built-in Disks

Up to six 3.5" SATA2 HDD (internal controller)
        7200 rpm disks (500/750/1000/2000GB)
  or   SSD (128/256GB with tray 3.5”)
Up to eight 3.5" SAS HDD (PCIe SAS adapter)
       SAS 1.5 Krpm disks (300/450/600GB)
  or  SATA2 disks (500/750/1000/2000GB) 7200rpm
  or  SSD (128/256GB)

Support of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (with PCI-Express SAS RAID board)
All disks are 3.5” inches (2.5” SSD with tray 3.5”)

• DVD R/W drive