System Overview; Key Technologies - Dell PowerEdge C6145 Technical Manual

1 System overview

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145 is an ultra-dense 2U, shared infrastructure server that can support
up to two 4-socket servers featuring the AMD Opteron™ 6100, 6200 and 6300 series processors.
Each independent server features dual or quad AMD Opteron 6000 series 8-core 12-core, or
16-core processors, SR56x0 chipset with SP5100 for I/O connectivity, DDR3 memory, DIMM thermal
sensors, PCI Express Generation 2 (PCIe 2.0), dual-port embedded gigabit Ethernet controllers, and
the integrated Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 baseboard management
controller (BMC) with a dedicated RJ45 connection.
The PowerEdge C6145 is primarily used in high performance computing (HPC) environments, but
has many applications for other uses including:
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HPC (large compute, graphics processing unit (GPU) compute)
Oil and gas
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Life sciences
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Computational/fluid dynamics
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Online gaming
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Engineering design assessment (EDA—large memory)
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Film/entertainment
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Dense, HPC cluster environment
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Core, memory, and I/O constrained applications
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I/O constrained GPU farm
PCIe 2.0 x16 delivers the maximum in the industry
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Large memory footprint
32 DIMMs per server in 2U
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Key technologies

The PowerEdge C6145 is designed to provide the highest performance — it is a perfect match for
applications that take advantage of large core counts and large memory capacities and that have
high I/O needs. The PowerEdge C6145 is the first PowerEdge C driven platform based on direct
customer feedback. It is the premier dense server for high performance cluster computation,
massive I/O expansion, and very large memory capacity in a flexible shared infrastructure chassis.
Other features include:
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Best in class density
96 cores and 64 DIMMs in 2U
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128 cores and 64 DIMMs in 2U
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2 x 4-socket servers in 2U
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6 x 3.5-inch or 12 x 2.5-inch hard drives for 2-node configuration
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12 x 3.5-inch or 24 x 2.5-inch hard drives for 1-node configuration
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3 x PCIe x16 slots, 1 x PCIe x8 mezzanine slot, 1 dedicated host interface card (HIC) slots
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Ideal platform for the C410x
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