Colfax CX7100 Blade Server

Feb. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- A Flexible System That Provides Exceptional Performance-per-Watt
The Colfax CX7100 Blade Server is built from the ground up to combat IT sprawl and complexity. The CX7100 delivers one of the most energy efficient, flexible, and manageable blade server product in the market. Flexible and scalable, the CX7100 packs 10 server blades with 20 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors or 40 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. Easy to use remote management tools, Gigabit Ethernet switch modules, InfiniBand switch modules, as well as 3+1 redundant high-efficiency power supplies keep the system running 24 x 7 at peak performance. Offering industry leading performance and density at a lower total cost, the CX7100 is the perfect choice for high performance computing environments.

Best-of-Class Energy-Efficiency
With Colfax blade servers, you can help preserve not only our green planet, but save on energy bills. The CX7100 enclosure takes advantage of thermal design efficiencies, such as ultra-efficient power supplies (93%), dynamic power efficient fans with optimized airflow design to efficiently cool the chassis and enable better performance in a lower power envelope.

Space Optimization
Housed within a 19" industry-standard rack, CX7100 servers reduce server footprint in the data center. Power, cooling and networking devices are aggregated in the rear of the chassis which optimizes the required amount of space.

Up to ten blade servers can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the 10U of rack space that ten 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the CX7100 provides about 50% density savings with 60 servers and 24 switches in a 42U rack.

Cable Reduction
The CX7100 server chassis enclosure greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 90% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers are reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.

Reducing the number of cables speeds up the deployment of servers and helps reduce troubleshooting issues by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.

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