Supermicro is putting its server technology leadership on full display with a wide selection of SuperServer demos including its innovative 2U Twin2 server with four hot-pluggable dual-processor (DP) nodes as well as SuperBlade and SuperWorkstation systems optimized with 93%+ high-efficiency power supplies, LV DDR3 memory, SAS 2.0 and more features.

"We are showcasing over 50 of our latest motherboards plus over 20 server, workstation and blade systems including an extensive selection of new platforms optimized for Intel's upcoming Xeon processors codenamed Nehalem", stated Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "Building upon our successful 1U Twin technology, our innovative 2U Twin2 system architecture achieves breakthrough x86 server performance-per-watt (375 GFLOPS/kW, up to 25% net gain over other top tiers' 1U servers) to further satisfy the ever-increasing efficiency, density and low-TCO demands of today's high performance computing (HPC) clusters and data centres."

2U Twin2 servers are compatible with existing and upcoming Supermicro twin boards. They feature hot-swappable hard drives, power supplies and even computing nodes to facilitate easy installation and maintenance. For high availability, 2U Twin2 servers provide optional redundant power and three 3.5" hard drives per node for RAID 5 data protection.

Based on the company's application-optimized Server Building Block Solutions strategy, Supermicro is offering customers the industry's broadest selection of products based on Intel's upcoming chipset codenamed Tylersburg. For maximum performance-per-watt, these platforms support both 1.5-volt and 1.35-volt DDR3 memory with up to 144GB in 18 DIMM slots. Several new high-performance Supermicro platforms feature dual IOH-36D controller chips to support up to 72 PCI-Express 2.0 links for unprecedented I/O capacity and performance (like 4 x16 PCI-E Gen2 slots for high-end Nvidia/ATI GPU applications) with optional SAS 2.0 for a 6 Gb/s per port transfer rate.

Supermicro provides the ultimate in storage and networking flexibility with its Universal I/O (UIO) interface that allows customers to choose from a host of UIO cards for SAS 2.0, 10Gb Ethernet, FC or InfiniBand subsystems. For optimum performance-per-dollar and best remote management, Supermicro also offers onboard IPMI 2.0 with media and KVM over LAN support on many of these new platforms, as well as both cost-effective DDR and high-performance QDR onboard InfiniBand versions for its award-winning 1U Twin™/2U Twin2 motherboards.