Nehalem SuperBlade Unveiled at BSI 2009

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Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:30am EDT

Supermicro Award-Winning Blades Deliver Highest Power Efficiency, Best
Performance-per-watt and Best TCO

LAS VEGAS, April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server
solutions, today unveiled live SuperBlade(R) server demonstrations including
new solutions optimized for Intel(R) Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processors at
BladeSystems Insight 2009 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada (booth
305).  At last year's BladeSystems Insight, Supermicro's SuperBlade(R) won the
Best Green Data Center Solution award.  Easy to deploy, easy to use, and
offering the best price-to-performance and profit potential available, the
SuperBlade(R) was also ranked number one by CRN over IBM and Dell in its May
2008 cover story entitled Blades of Glory.

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"Our new Nehalem blade solutions include the world's first SAS2-enabled blade
server in the world, doubling the storage data transfer rate from 3Gb/s to
6Gb/s per channel," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. 
"Featuring the industry's highest efficiency (93%*) power supplies, cooling
subsystems and motherboard designs, our SuperBlade(R) solutions deliver the
best system-level efficiency in the industry. This increases the maximum
computing power per rack and lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO), while
also reducing energy consumption and preserving the environment."

Leveraging the company's leadership position in advanced server designs,
Supermicro's latest SBI-7126T and SBI-7426T SuperBlade(R) servers maximize the
new Nehalem technology, which includes QPI (Intel(R) QuickPath Interconnect)
for up to 6.4GT/s, Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller, multiple power envelops,
and Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology, to provide the industry's highest
performing and most optimized new generation blade solutions.

Supermicro's OfficeBlade(R) enclosure with 10 blades in 7U provides
industry-leading energy efficiency and low-noise (50dB*) operation, making it
an excellent choice for office environments or a personal supercomputer,
especially when loaded into Supermicro's optimized 14U mobile rack cabinet
(CSE-RACK14U).  While the quiet OfficeBlade(R) is ideal for office
environments, the DatacenterBlade(TM) packs 14 energy-efficient blades into
one 7U enclosure, with industry-leading performance-per-watt (353GFLOPS/kW*),
making it perfect for datacenter and HPC applications.  Supermicro's
enterprise-class SuperBlade(R) features both dual and quad-processor blades
for performance, scalability and flexibility. For optimum storage,
SuperBlade(R) supports up to 10 two-socket server blades with 60 hot-plug
SAS/SATA hard disk drives in a single 7U enclosure.

For maximum computational performance and density, SuperBlade supports up to
10 four-socket server blades (160 CPU cores) in one 7U enclosure.  Leading
power efficiency, compute density (up to 960 processing cores per 42U rack),
performance-per-watt (353GFLOPS/kW*), and 20Gb InfiniBand switch & HCA (with
40Gb InfiniBand coming soon), make Supermicro's SuperBlade(R) the best choice
for HPC applications.

Supermicro Server Building Block Solutions(R) offer exceptional flexibility
and outstanding feature advantages.  For more information on Supermicro's
complete line of server, workstation and blade solutions go to
www.supermicro.com.  

About Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI)
Established in 1993, Supermicro emphasizes superior product design and
uncompromising quality control to produce industry-leading serverboards,
chassis and server systems. These mission-critical Server Building Block
solutions provide benefits across many environments, including data center
deployment, high-performance computing, high-end workstations, storage
networks and standalone server installations. For more information on
Supermicro's complete line of advanced motherboards, SuperServers, and
optimized chassis, visit www.Supermicro.com, email Marketing@Supermicro.com or
call the San Jose, CA headquarters at +1 408-503-8000.

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Supermicro, SuperBlade, OfficeBlade and Server Building Block Solutions are
registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.  Other names, brands and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

* Peak power efficiency, noise level and performance-per-watt figures based on
internal test results.



SOURCE  Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Michael Kalodrich of Super Micro Computer, Inc., MichaelK@supermicro.com, or
Super Micro Computer, Inc., +1-408-503-8000, Marketing@Supermicro.com
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