Product Overview
In partnership with NVIDIA & Supermicro, Boston developed a range of high performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) server platforms optimised for 3D professional graphics applications. Boston's NVIDIA GRID Technology-based solutions are fully validated to provide rich graphics in virtualised environments and support the best virtualisation software from Citrix®, VMware® and Microsoft.
In partnership with NVIDIA & Supermicro, Boston developed a range of high performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) server platforms optimised for 3D professional graphics applications. Boston's NVIDIA GRID Technology-based solutions are fully validated to provide rich graphics in virtualised environments and support the best virtualisation software from Citrix®, VMware® and Microsoft.
With these servers Boston aims to deliver best-in-class product density and performance for virtual desktop computing - helping customers when making choices on their server hardware and infrastructure for their VDI deployment.
The Boston features up to 2 of the latest generation Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors codename "Haswell", each sporting up to 18 cores each and 1 terabyte of DDR-4 Registered ECC memory. This enables the consolidation of more users than ever before per virtual host. Combined with up to 3 GRID K1 or GRID K2 GRID accelerator cards this enables never seen before rack density.
NVIDIA GRID™ technology offers the ability to offload graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in virtualized environments. This gives the data center manager the freedom to deliver true PC graphics-rich experiences for professional applications to virtual users for the first time in their VDI deployment.
Depending on the performance profile, each GRID K1 card can be shared with up to 32 power users, and each GRID K2 card with 16 designers / power users.
Applications tested and supported now include Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD 2013/14, Inventor 2013/14, Revit 2013, Bunkspeed SHOT 2014, Bunkspeed Pro 2014, Bunkspeed DRIVE 2014, Creo, Synerscope, Insight Earth, Solidworks 2015 & many more.
Key Features
1U NVIDIA GRID VDI Solution Up to 2 x Xeon E5-2600 v3 Processors Up to 1TB DDR-4 Registered ECC Memory Up to 3 x GRID K1 or GRID K2 GPUs Supports VMWare ESXi 6 or Citrix XenServer Hypervisors 4 x 2.5" SAS / S-ATA HDD Bays with LSI 2108 Hardware RAID Optional SuperCap Backed RAID Controller Cache
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Applications
Professional Graphics VDI
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BIOS Features
ACPI 1.0
ACPI 2.0
ACPI 3.0
APM 1.2
DMI 2.3
PCI 2.3
Plug and Play (PnP)
SMBIOS 2.7.1
UEFI
USB keyboard support
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BIOS Type
128MB SPI Flash with AMI UEFI
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Buttons
Power On/Off button
System Reset button
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Certifications
80 Plus Platinum (94%+)
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Chipset
Intel C612 Express chipset
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Colour
Black
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CPU Cores
10
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CPU Family
Intel Xeon E5
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CPU Manufacturer
Intel
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CPU Model
E5-2660 v3
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CPU Quantity (Installed)
2
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CPU Quantity (Maximum)
2
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CPU Series
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3
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CPU Socket
Dual Socket R3 (LGA 2011)
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CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
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Drive Bays
4 x 2.5" Hot-swap drive bays
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Drive Support
SAS
SATA
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Expansion Slots
1 x (x8) PCI-E 3.0 (in x16) low-profile slot
4 x (16) PCI-E 3.0 slots (3x GPU/Xeon Phi cards optional)
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Form Factor
1U
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GPU Family
NVIDIA GRID Series
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GPU Manufacturer
NVIDIA
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GPU Model
K2 PCI-E
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Input/Output
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
1 x Serial Header
1 x VGA Connector
2 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
2 x USB 2.0 ports
4 x USB 3.0 ports (2 rear, 2 via header)
10 x SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) ports
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IPMI
Aspeed AST2400 BMC
IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN and KVM-over-LAN support
Support for Intelligent Platform Management Interface v.2.0
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LED indicators
2 x Network activity LEDs
Hard drive activity LED
Power LED
System Overheat LED / Fan fail LED / UID LED
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Manufacturer
Boston
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Memory (Installed)
128GB
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Memory (Maximum)
1TB
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Memory Slots
16
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Memory Speed
2133MHz
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Memory Type
DDR4 ECC Reg
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Network Adapter
Intel i350-AM2 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet
Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output
Virtual Machine Device Queues reduce I/O overhead
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Network Ports
2
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Network Socket
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
RJ45
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Number of Nodes
1
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Product Range
Boston Venom
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PSU Output Capacity (Max)
1600 Watts
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RAID Support (SATA)
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
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SAS Controller
LSI 9266-8i SAS 6Gbit/s RAID Controller
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SSD's (Installed)
4 x Sandisk 2TB Optimus ECO SAS 2
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System Bus
QPI up to 9.6 GT/s
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System Cooling
10 x counter-rotating fans with optimal fan speed control
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