ANGS.OB Develops SuperBlade and SuperNest to Provide Flexibility and Efficiency
Angstrom Microsystems, Inc. provides cooling technology to reduce energy consumption and wasted energy in large data centers. The company designed three types of SuperBlades, which are ultra-dense servers designed for super-computing and clustering deployments. There’s the Classic SuperBlade server, HPC SuperBlade Server, and the Creator SuperBlade workstation.
The servers have greater density and quality, and are more easily maintained and managed than traditional servers. The SuperBlades provide power through an internal power connector and is mounted vertically in a row into a “SuperNest,” which is the case or enclosure to mount and cable the SuperBlades.
Thirty one hot-swappable SuperBlades, fans, cables and a PDU comprise the SuperBlade nest. The cooling rack is rack-based, rather than blade-based, which results in the need for fewer fans to cool each server. The nest can hold either SuperBlades or standard servers – offering a flexibility that lets customers switch between networks, consoler servers or other related gear.
SuperNests are like Lego blocks, with the ability to be stacked 5.5 nests high to create the standard seven-inch rack. The nest can accommodate up to 130 servers when stacked back-to-back. The SuperBlades and SuperNests offer cooling with fewer points of failure; are cost effective, using 4 Athlon MP 2400+ processors; are easy to maintain; and are flexible, as the blades and rackmount gear can be placed in several configurations.
