Cubix HostEngine 2U User Manual

HostEngine 2U computer features

Intel® Xeon 3.2GHz or lower-speed
®
single- or dual-processor(s) with the
Intel C602 chipset. HostEngine 2U
provides four PCI Express (PCIe) Gen
3.0 x16 expansion slots. Each slot can
accommodate a half-height, half-length
controller such as the Cubix Host
Interface Controller (HIC) that
connects to Cubix Xpander products.
Each HIC connects to multiple slots
within an Xpander Rackmount 8 or
other Xpander products (see the block
diagram at the right).
By connecting HostEngine to GPU-
Xpander Rackmount 8, you can add
eight double-wide GPUs such as
NVIDIA® Quadro K5200 or M6000 to
the HostEngine 2U computer for
running Autodesk® 3ds Max or
Bunkspeed® Shot with Mental
Images® iray on Microsoft® Windows® 7. You can also run BlackMagic Design® DaVinci
Resolve® 9.0 for Linux or Windows on HostEngine 2U computer.
Connecting to Xpander Rackmount 8 also enables you to connect to GPU Compute Engines
such as NVIDIA Tesla K40 / K80 or AMD Firepro S9100 / 9150 / 9170 for HPC applications,
Grid K2 for virtual desktop projects or multiple Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors for parallel
processing.
HostEngine 2U standard configuration provides one or two 2.5-inch SATA 3 solid-state drives
(SSDs). HostEngine 2U accommodates four full-height, half-height, half-length HICs.
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