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"We could not meet our 100% uptime SLA without Silicon Mechanics hardware and wisdom."

- Sarah Novotny, Director of Unix and Network Services, Blue Gecko, LLC

In Focus

Silicon Mechanics Nominated for Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award

Silicon Mechanics is proud to announce that we have once again been nominated for a Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award in the category of "Best Linux Server Vendor". Awards span thirty-six categories, including everything from Favorite Web Browser to Favorite Linux Game.

Voting began Friday, June 18th, and will continue through Friday, August 20. Please come and show your support for Silicon Mechanics by voting at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/2010-readers-choice-awards-survey.

4 New 4P Servers

We have a new lineup of 4 socket servers – 2 Intel® Xeon® 7500-based servers, and 2 AMD Opteron™-6100 based servers. If you need servers with lots of cores and high memory counts, this is the hardware for you.

Want to know more about the CPUs that make these servers tick? Check out the Silicon Mechanics Guides to the Intel Xeon 7500 and the AMD Opteron 6100.

NVIDIA^® Tesla™ 20-Series GPUs

The new NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs (Fermi architecture) are now available from Silicon Mechanics. Choose a GPU-powered 1U server with Intel Xeon 5600 CPUs or with AMD Opteron 6100 processors, or consider a personal supercomputer with up to 4 20-Series Tesla cards. These GPUs are built from the ground up for high-performance computing.

8- and 12-Core AMD Opteron™ 6100 CPUs

The newest AMD Opteron processors (codenamed "Magny-Cours") are now available. These 8- and 12-core processors feature

New power management features
12 MB of L3 cache per socket
DDR3 Memory

This is a server platform you can count on as real-world workloads become increasingly complex and demanding. For more detailed technical information, download our guide to the new AMD Opteron Processor (PDF Format, 186K).

Intel^® Xeon^® Processor 5600 Series Is Here

Silicon Mechanics is pleased to announce the availability of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series (formerly codenamed "Westmere"). We've refreshed our entire line of Rackform iServ servers to take advantage of the new six-core CPUs, and features like Intel® Intelligent Power Technology, turbo boost, hyper-threading, and DDR3 memory. For more detailed technical information, download our guide to the new Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series (PDF Format, 160K).

AMD Chipset Platform 5690/5100 now available!

Combined with the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor, the 5690/5100 chipset platform from AMD enables a new level of power and performance. The highlights include:

Hyper Transport™ 3.0 technology
PCI Express® 2.0
AMD Virtualization™ featuring IO-virtualization

Configure your AMD Opteron processor-based server with the new AMD Chipset now! Questions? Contact your Silicon Mechanics sales representative at 866-352-1173, or email sales@siliconmechanics.com.

Rackform iServ R143 - flexible, affordable, entry-level 1U server

Storform iServ R518.v2 - 36 drives, 24 front, 12 rear

Press

March 29, 2010 — Silicon Mechanics, Inc., a leading provider of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing solutions, today announced support for the new AMD Opteron™ 6100 Processor (codenamed "Magny-Cours")."

March 16, 2010 — Silicon Mechanics, Inc., a leading provider of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing solutions, today announced support for the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series (formerly codenamed "Westmere").

September 10, 2009 — Silicon Mechanics, Inc., a leading provider of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing solutions, today announced the launch of two new server products supporting the Intel® Xeon® Processor 3400 Series (codenamed "Lynnfield"). The new products widen the availability of Nehalem architecture to include the entry-level 1U server market.

Library

Most Recent Additions

LSI 6Gb/s SATA and SAS for Data Centers Video
(Flash Video, 1:07)

Guide to the Intel Xeon 7500
(PDF Format, 273K)

NVIDIA Tesla C2050 Product Brief
(PDF Format, 168K)

NVIDIA Tesla S2050 Product Brief
(PDF Format, 158K)

Guide to the AMD Opteron™ 6100 Processor
(PDF Format, 186K)

Guide to the Intel Xeon 5600
(PDF Format, 163K)

Guide to the Intel Xeon 3400
(PDF Format, 121K)

For a complete listing of available resources, visit our Library.