Opteron CPU	Rated Equivalent to Xeon:
opteron 890 2.8ghz	4.0 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 885 2.6ghz	3.8 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 880 2.4ghz	3.6 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 875 2.2ghz	3.4 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 870 2.0ghz	3.2 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 865 1.8ghz	3.0 Ghz Dual Core
opteron 852 2.6ghz	3.8 Ghz Single Core
opteron 850 2.4ghz	3.6 Ghz Single Core
opteron 848 2.2ghz	3.2 Ghz Single Core
opteron 846 1.6ghz	2.8 Ghz Single Core
opteron 846 he 2ghz	3.0 Ghz Single Core
opteron 844 1.8ghz	2.66Ghz Single C
opteron 842 1.6ghz	2.53Ghz Single C
opteron 840 1.4ghz	2.4 Ghz Single C

 VIPER VCN Node Features

 The VCN™  is the building block of the VIPER™  VSX™ .  The following are its basic characteristics.

VIPER™ VSX™ MULTI-PROCESSOR SUPERCOMPUTER

VIPER System Specifications Motherboard: CSS Thunder K8QW (S4881) Motherboard  • CSS VIPER K8QWv (S4881v): supports four (min)      AMD Opteron™ 800 series processors (eight max)  • SSI EEB (13" x 16") CPU Board  • CSS M4881v: supports four AMD Opteron™      800 series processors (13" x 12"), extender      permits eight processors through scalable      hypertransport bus link interface (SHBLI) Processor Compatibility  • Support four or eight AMD Opteron™      800 series processors, P2P Linear Array  • Supports single/dual core Chipset  • NVIDIA nForce™ Pro 2200 + AMD-8131™ Hyper      Transport PCI-X tunnel + SHBLI Crossbar  • Winbond W83627HF Super I/O chip  • ADT7468 Hardware monitor IC System Memory  • (32) DDR DIMM sockets: (16) M4881, (16) S4881  • Support up to 128GB reg. DDR 333/266 ECC      memory on 32 DIMMs (Only 64GB DDR 400      supported by quad-processor system)  • Supports 4-rank memory modules Expansion Slots  • Two x16 PCI Express slots, one with x4 signal  • Two independent 64-bit PCI-X bus  • One 64-bit 133 MHz (3.3V) PCI-X slot  • Two 64-bit 100 MHz (3.3V) PCI-X slots Integrated PCI Graphics  • ATI® RAGE™ XL PCI graphics controller  • 8MB Frame Buffer of video memory  • supports PCI Express x16 Concurrency (note, this allows onboard video to work, even with active PCI Express x16 video board installed as primary). Server Management  • Automatic system fan speed control  • Chassis intrusion alert  • Support CSS Server Management (CSSSM)  • CSS SMDC, IPMI compliant      remote server management kit (option) Integrated LAN Controllers  • Broadcom BCM5704C dual-channel GbE LAN     - Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs     - Connected to PCI-X Bridge A  • Two Front Panel LED headers BIOS  • Phoenix BIOS with 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM  • Serial Console Redirect; USB device boot  • ACPI 2.0 power management support  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chassis Enclosure  • Convertible Pedestal and 19" rack-mountable      5U chassis  • Storage bay:         - (4) 3.5" HDD SATA hot swap bays         - (4) 3.5" Internal HDD bays        Upgradeable to hot swap bays via add-on kit         - (1) Slim CD-ROM bay         - (1) Standard FDD bay         - (3) 5.25" device bay  • Dimension: 16.7" (W) x 26.8" (D) x 8.7" (H)  • Dimension (mm): 425 (W) x 680 (D) x 220 (H) Power Supply  • 900W 2+1 for (4-way); 1350W 3+1 for (8-way) Front Panel Feature  • I/O: (2) USB 2.0 ports  • LED indicators for Power, HDD Active, ID, & LAN  • Switch: Power / Reset Back I/O Ports  • (1) keyboard & one PS/2 mouse port  • (2) RJ45 10/100/1000 Base-T ports      with activity LEDs  • Two USB 2.0 ports  • One 9-pin UART serial port, one 15-pin VGA port Storage Controller  • Two dual-port SATA II controllers integrated in      NVIDIA nForce Pro chip, supports up to four      SATA-2 drives with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 System Cooling  • 4 x 80*38mm DC Fans; 4 active CPU coolers Regulatory  • FCC Class A (Declaration of Conformity)  • CE (Declaration of Conformity)

VIPER™  VCN Mainboard:

VIPER Mainboard Specifications Processor  • Quad µPGA 940-pin ZIF sockets  • Supports up to four AMD Opteron™ 8xx processors  • Four onboard 4-phase VRMs  • Integrated 128-bit DDR memory controller Chipset  • AMD-8131™ HyperTransport™ PCI-X Tunnel  • NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 (CK8-04)  • Winbond™ W83627HF Super I/O ASIC  • Two analog Devices ADT7468 Hardware      Monitoring IC Memory  • 128-bit dual channel memory bus  • Sixteen 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets (4 per CPU)  • Supports up to 64GB of Registered DDR memory      (supports 32GB of registered DDR 400 memory)  • Supports ECC type memory modules  • Supports DDR 400 / 333 / 266 memory  • Supports four banks memory Expansion Slots  • Two x16 PCI Express slot, one with x4 signal  • Two independent 64-bit PCI-X buses     - One 133MHz max. 3.3V PCI-X slot from BrdgB     - Two 100MHz max. 3.3V PCI-X slots from BrdgA  • Total of five usable slots Integrated I/O  • One floppy connector supports up to two devices  • Two 9-pin serial ports (1 connector & 1 header)     - and one 25-pin parallel port pin-header  • PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors  • (8) USB 2.0 EHCl ports (two rear, six via header)  • Two USB v2.0 connectors through VT6212 System Management  • Modular BMC 2x25pin header for SMDC support     (Tyan Proprietary Interface)  • Six 4-pin fan headers support tachometer      monitoring & smart FAN control (PWM), four      3-pin fan headers support tachometer monitoring      temperature and voltage monitoring  • Port 80h LED display Integrated ATA-133  • Two ATA-133 Channels      - up to four ATA-133 devices Integrated LAN Controllers  • Broadcom BCM5704C dual-channel GbE LAN     - Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs     - Connected to PCI-X Bridge A  • Two Front Panel LED headers HyperTransport™ Connectors  • Two HyperTransport™ v1.0 Connectors   Integrated PCI Graphics  • ATI® RAGE™ XL PCI graphics controller  • 8MB Frame Buffer of video memory Integrated Serial ATA-2 Controller  • Two integrated dual port SATA-2 controllers  • Supports four independent SATA-2 ports  • Supports up to four SATA-2 drives  • Supports 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s  • Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 Integrated IEEE 1394a Controller  • IEEE 1394a controller TSB43AB22A  • Two IEEE 1394a pin header Intelligent Platform Management Interface Header  • TYAN Server Management Daughter card     (optional) supports features listed below via     IPMI header (SMDC/TSO Support)  • QLogic™ Zircon Baseboard Management     Controller (BMC) based on powerful ARM7     technology  • Tailored for IPMI compliance  • Supports KCS and BT styles  • Flexible Windows & Linux Management Solution  • Supports RMCP and SNMP protocols  • Supports ASF standard and EMP  • I2C serial multi-master controllers and UARTs  • Build-in IPMB connector  • Remote power on/off and reset support     (IPMI-over-LAN) BIOS  • Phoenix BIOS on 8Mbit LPC Flash ROM  • ACPI 2.0; Serial Console Redirect  • USB device boot support; 48-bit LBA support  • Power management: S0, S1, S4 and S5 Form Factor  • SSI EEB v3.5 footprint (13"x16"; 330.2x406.4mm)  • EPS12V/SSI v3.5 (24+8+8) power connectors  • Serial (one) and VGA (one) connectors  • Stacked USB 2.0 connectors  • Stacked PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors  • Two RJ-45 side-by-side LAN connectors with LEDs Regulatory  • FCC Class B (Declaration of Conformity)  • European CE (Declaration of Conformity).

Scalable Hypertransport Bus Link Interface
Secondary Mainboard (allows addition of 16 memory
slots and four more CPUs):
 

VIPER Expansion Board Specifications Processors  • Supports up to four AMD Opteron™ 8xx processors  • Four onboard 4-phase VRMs   Hardware Monitor  • Two Analog Devices ADT7468 Hardware      Monitoring IC  • Six 4-pin fan headers support tachometer      monitoring and speed control (PWM)  • Temperature and voltage monitoring   Memory  • 128-bit dual channel memory bus  • Sixteen 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets (four / CPU)  • Supports up to 64GB Registered DDR  • Supports ECC type memory modules  • Supports DDR 400, DDR 333, or DDR 266  • Supports four banks memory   Power Supply  • EPS12V Power Supply  • EPS12V/SSI v3.5 (24+8+8) power connectors   Form Factor  • 12" x 13" (304.8mm x 330.2mm)  • Requires two HT4881 HyperTransport™      connectors to mount to the S4881. HyperTransport™ Connectors  • Two HyperTransport™ v1.0 connectors  SHBLI4881v - SHBLI Edge Card SHBLI Edge Card  • Connecting 4 AMD Opteron™ CPU on S4881 and      4 AMD Opteron™ CPU on M4881  • Two required per system to enable CrossBar Switch.

VIPER™  VCN™  Node System Gallery
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3D Front Perspective

Front Perspective

Rear Perspective

Top Perspective

 Secondary Processor Group adapter mounts over mainboard using edge connectors. That may be seen in the Rear and Top
Perspectives. Note, pictures displayed on some Windows XP systems resize themselves to fit the screen. 
Use the resizing hot spot on the bottom right of the picture, to display these images full size! 
Hovering mouse over bottom right corner does the trick!

  VIPER™  VSX™  Complex Features

 Hierarchical versus Linear Connectionist Architecture

  The Viper™  VSX™  Complex supports two different ways for its internal Nodes to be arranged HA (Hierarchical) and LCA (Lineal Connectionist Architecture).  In all cases, the switches in use for interconnect have automatic addressability, full isolation of transactions, full fault tolerance, and redundancy.

  HA™

  Hierarchical Architecture™  (HA™ ) uses a top up expansion in powers of four Nodes, in a single SuperNode, four groups of SuperNodes in a HyperNode, and four HyperNodes in a MasterNode and four MasterNodes in a VSX Complex.    A Hierarchical arranged Viper™  VSX™  Complex allows up to 256 of the above VCN Nodes (which can be rack mounted or pedestal mounted) to interconnect through our SCALABLE LINK ACCELERATOR, a 10GB/Second twin optical interface, that allows AX6 based VCNs to expand to include each others' CPUs and RAM into a unified Parallel Supercomputer architecture.  N-Dimensionality is implemented using a special VSX Optical switch, that allows groups of four switches to cross connect with each other by a VSX 100GB/Second GEO-D connector, each of which switch can connect to up to 16 VCN Nodes, arranged in groups of four.  Each group of four switches' 100GB/Second GEO-D connector allows each group of four switches to be interconnected to up to three directly connected partners.  Each VCN Node joins its partners up and down in this hierarchy in a "tightly coupled triage" assembly.  Process distribution and task distribution are automatically arranged for by the AX6 operating systems in each of the Nodes.

  HA allows a predictable layout of tasks and is best suited for spherically designed applications, which constantly share data from a central database core to outer service units.  Typical applications include Security Management and Monitoring, Access Control, Flight Control of preprogrammed automatons, AI Databases, Huge Web eCommerce Applications, Banking and Finance.

  LCA™  

  Lineal Connectionist Architecture™ LCA™ ) allows the Nodes in a VSX™  Complex to be arranged in a variety of matrixes or subgroups or in a continuous line of processors.  In this case, all of the Nodes in a single VSX™  would either be arranged along a series of VSX Optical Switches, or groups of such interconnected by GEO-D connector based VSX™  100GB/second switch.

   LCA is user customizable, and allows a building block approach to configuration.  This allows the topography of the VSX™  Complex to be arranged as a convenience to its application.  A special building block is available to control the configuration of the switches under program control, so as to rearrange the array of Nodes within a VSX™ into a "scheduled configuration" that follows the applications running in the systems.  This "dynamic reconfiguration" of Nodes is only possible in the LCA™  form of VSX™  configuration.

Software Development and Port Partnerships

   CompAmerica is currently financing Software Development and Application Port Partnerships to run on its AX6 vBSD operating systems.  While a large supply of office, web, and database applications already exist for ORACLE, and other commercial environmenrts, CompAmerica has made arrangements for commercial partners to obtain low cost financing to make it next to cost free to easily port additional application packages to the Viper VSX Supercomputer, or to develop new ones.  For additional information, please call your VIPER representative at 908-931-1200.
         
 

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