October 12, 2012
MUMBAI, India, Oct. 12 — Boston IT Solutions (India) Private Limited, now in its 20th year as distribution partner for Super Micro Computer, are proud to showcase their latest range of server, storage and hybrid GPU-compute workstation solutions designed to enhance the creative experience at the 22nd Broadcast India event in Mumbai; including the latest evolution to Supermicro Twin architecture, the high performance FatTwin™ server. For more information and a demonstration visit Boston on stand A-103.
The FatTwin is a new high-capacity 4U server solution that is based on Supermicro’s highly successful Twin Architecture, offering a new, flexible, highly-dense computing platform. Featuring Intel Xeon E5 dual-processors and 8 or 4 hot-pluggable node configurations, the FatTwin is ideal for a number of mission critical applications – such as high speed render farms.
Powered by the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors and with up to 512GB of 1600MHz high performance DDR3 memory, the FatTwin provides amazing speed and performance enhancements designed to reduce rendering time and deliver outstanding performance for intensive 3D graphics and animation workflows. With an air-flow optimized design that supports 130W CPUs at ambient temperatures of up to 47°C, the FatTwin delivers maximum processing performance eliminating costly air-conditioning to dramatically reduce the Total Cost of Ownership.
Manoj Nayee, Managing Director for Boston Limited says “Boston takes pride in unveiling our latest range of media optimised processing and storage solutions based on Supermicro’s highly innovative FatTwin architecture for maximised performance-per-watt and reduced TCO. These new platforms have had fantastic success within the broadcast and Media & Entertainment arenas, providing extreme processing density and support for hybrid GPU-acceleration.”
To view the Supermicro FatTwin server and other solutions designed for the media and broadcast arena, please visit Boston at stand A-103. For pricing information and more details, please contact sales@bostonindia.in.
About Boston
With nearly 20 years of trading within the distribution and OEM marketplace, Boston continues to lead the way in providing the latest high-performance, power-optimized technologies into the data centre, HPC, ISP, Military, VFX, Enterprise and Broadcast markets with multi-award winning server, storage, workstation and clustered solutions. Since the successful launch of Boston IT Solutions (India) Private Limited in 2009, we announced the launch of Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH in 2010. Expansion into both regions has been driven purely by market demand for alternate vendors providing high-performance and high value-add systems. As our global reach continues to expand we plan on opening further global facilities to improve and expand the services we offer. For more information about Boston, please visit www.bostonindia.in and follow @BostonIndia on Twitter.
About Supermicro
Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro's advanced server Building Block Solutions offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions.
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