NextServer open-standards blade server now supports 400Hz input power (click image to zoom by 1.2x)

High performance computing manufacturers, NextComputing, announce the availability of 400Hz 100V-230V input power as well as 110/220V 50/60Hz support on their NextServer, an innovative 4U small footprint multi-processing blade server. NextComputing is dedicated to the design of small form-factor, dense computing platforms.

This feature addition is specifically designed to address the needs of the Military and Aerospace industries, where aircrafts and land vehicles often utilize the 400HZ input power. The company's intent is to minimize cost and space requirements by eliminating the need for external frequency or power converters.

Specifications of NextComputing's NextServer include AMD Opteron™ processors, up to 32 cores, or Intel® “Nocona” Xeon, up to 16 cores, 184-pin DIMM sockets, onboard dual 2.5" ATA 100 IDE HDD to 320GB per blade or PXE Boot, (2) Gigabit Ethernet ports, 3rd 10/100 management port, PCI-X half length add-on card slot, keyboard/mouse/KVM-accessibility, internal SVGA graphics, and now, 400Hz 100V-230V input power. These features make the NextServer flexible enough to handle anything from data crunching tasks, distributed I-O, to graphics intensive visualization applications. Up to eight independent blades fit into a 4U rackmount slot, maximizing precious rack space.

The company's NextServer broke traditional barriers with its low power processing blades and 110/220V 50/60Hz system front end. Now it can benefit mobile military applications requiring 400Hz power by eliminating the need for external frequency conversion systems, reducing cost, weight, and space requirements even further.

The NextServer epitomizes the advantages inherent to blade server technology. Tucked into its small 4U form-factor are denser processing options, PCI expandability, hot-swap capabilities, integrated switching in a flexible, fail-safe architecture for reduced downtime, increased redundancy, simplified server management, easier hardware and software integration, greater heat dissipation and lower power requirements. The NextServer is an ideal open-standards distributed processing platform for military applications common to land and air vehicle situations such as surveillance, communications, and data capture, generation, reduction or manipulation.

NextComputing has long been committed to the Military and Intelligence community, offering a wide array of small form-factor, high-performance computers in durable chassis ideal for harsh environments common to deployed military applications. The company has filled a growing need, within this market, for portability without giving up performance. NextComputing's Vigor Series, a line of rugged portables, is a popular choice for mission-critical, mobile applications offering processors ranging from single or dual UltraSPARC™ IIIi processors, to two dual core AMD Opteron™ processors. NextComputing recently incorporated 1.33GHz and 1.60GHz UltraSPARCIIIi processors into its Vigor line, proof of the company's long term commitment to military and intelligence applications' performance and longevity.

“Providing our longstanding military customer base with the convenience of 400Hz power input in the densest blade computer available, our NextServer, is indicative of our commitment to serving the needs of this community with the most flexible, highest performance computing solutions available. We understand and strive to resolve their problems, and maintain support for the architectures we offer for years to come,” comments Bob Labadini, President and CTO of NextComputing.

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