MIW ArmBlock 16

The MIW ARMBlock16™ is the highest density ARM® based server design on the market today supporting a modular design that when combined can provide up to 48 ARM® server class nodes per 2U enclosure while leveraging existing enterprise class IPMI and SNMP based monitoring and management infrastructures to allow seamless integration the tools operators use today in their datacenters.

The ARMBlock16™ Is the entry-level product offering from MIW and hosts up to 16 Marvell AP510 server nodes while consuming less than 100W under full load. Designed from the ground up to be server class, each board has 2GB of fast 1066MHz DDR 3 ECC memory; a SATA2.0 bus supporting traditional 1.8" SSD drives as well as MIW’s newest SSD on PCB drives up to 128GB in size, all networked together by its on board 20 port 1GbE switch.

In the new age of green computing, the ARMBlock16™ sets the new standard for low power. The strengths of the ARM® architecture’s low power feature are the core of the design and each node at full power consumes as little as 1.5W of power and its 90% efficient power supply will cleanly supply the needs of the system. The entire ArmBlock16™ has been instrumented for power monitoring with statistics available for multiple power domains throughout the enclosure allowing administrator’s to know how their power resources are being consumed. MIW’s design carefully manages inrush at startup to ensure no unnecessary load on datacenter infrastructure allowing higher utilization of power circuits per rack.

The MIW ARMBlock16™ is a flexible space-saving product offering the benefits of 16 compute nodes with high-speed storage that has been optimized for cloud workloads. High density doesn’t mean high TCO. The MIW ARMBlock16™’s cable-less architecture has been designed from the bare-metal up for ease of operation and overall lower total cost of ownership. It can handle the needs of your business with ease.

Key Features & Benefits

Standard Operating Systems

Each node in the ArmBlock16™ arrives pre-installed with Ubuntu Server. While ARM is a different architecture from a legacy x86 server by running a standard Linux distribution the vast majority of your applications “just work”:

• Platform is fully open source.
• Leverages the operating system management skills of existing staff.
• PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Mono, Java and more supported out of the box for extensive application compatibility out of the box.

Cloud Optimized

Each node is scaled to be similar in size to a traditional virtualized server instance:

• Equivalent costs to operate.
• No licensing fees to virtualization providers.
• Real hardware for real workloads.

Designed for Density

MIW can deliver a turnkey solution to your datacenter that can be configured with up to 960 nodes:

• Preconfigured for your environments.
• Optimized for network throughput.
• Can be configured to use less than 6000W for the entire rack.
• Easy maintenance.

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