Ideal environment
Medium to large enterprise data center customers requiring dense two-way server performance
• Maximum 32-bit or 64-bit two-way performance for load-balanced or front-end applications
• Ultra-dense design supports up to 96 servers (192 processors) in a standard rack
• Lower power consumption per server (68 W per processor) enables denser rack architectures
High Performance Technical Computing (HPC) environments
• Support for up to two Opteron 200 Series processors with on-board memory controllers running at
processor speed
• Optimal solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low-latency access to system
memory
• Typical applications: financial, life and materials sciences, mechanical engineering/virtual
prototyping, electronic design automation, and high-end film and video
Enterprise data center or HPC environments that optimize external storage architectures
• Dual-port Fibre Channel connectivity option with no trade-offs on other features
• Support for HP and third-party SANs
• Support for boot from SAN
Features
Table 1 summarizes key features of the HP ProLiant BL35p server blade.
Table 1: Key features
Component Description
Processor Opteron Model 250 (2.4 GHz)
Support for one-way and two-way server configurations
1 MB L2 cache per processor
AMD HyperTransport™ (HT) speed: 800 MHz
Up to 192 processors in a 42U rack
Chipset Opteron 8000 Series
Memory ECC PC3200 (400 MHz) DDR
Expandable to 8 GB
Network Two NC7781 PCI-X Gigabit NICs (deployed on a Mezzanine card)
One 10/100 NIC dedicated to remote management
Internal storage Integrated storage controller
Maximum 120 GB (2 x 60 GB ATA 5,400 rpm drive)
SAN connectivity Optional Dual Port Fibre Channel Adapter (2 Gb)
Remote
management
Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) Advanced
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