HP Apollo 70
An Arm-based, density-optimized HPC platform: the HPE Apollo z70 2U chassis holds up to four HPE AR44z 1U or two HPE AR64z 2U hot-plug server nodes, each built on Marvell (Cavium) ThunderX2 Arm processors, for large scale-out HPC clusters (up to 80 nodes per 42U rack).
Storage
- Chassis bays
- Up to 8 LFF hot-plug SATA HDD/SSD, direct-attach
- M.2 options
- HPE 240 GB / 480 GB / 960 GB SATA 6G Read Intensive M.2 2280 SSD
- Drive options
- HPE 8 TB SATA 7.2K LFF HDD; 480 GB–1.92 TB SATA Read Intensive / Mixed Use LFF LPC SSD
Expansion
- HPE AR64z (2U node)
- 2 × PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16/x8/x4/x1), one front-mount and one rear-mount low-profile expansion slot
- HPE AR44z (1U node)
- OCP mezzanine card connector + SFP+ riser connector (no full-length PCIe expansion slot)
- Both nodes
- M.2 slots (one per processor), SFP+ riser connector
Networking
- LOM
- Dual-port SFP+ 10GbE Mellanox CX4 LOM per server node (SFP/SFP+ DAC, AOC or transceiver)
- Optional
- QSFP port (optional); HPE CL Eth 2×10Gb X710 PCIe3 card and HPE InfiniBand EDR/Ethernet 100Gb 2-port adapter — both AR64z-only
- Management
- 1 × RJ-45 1GbE dedicated management NIC port per node
- Fabric software
- Mellanox UFM
Power
- Supplies
- HPE 1600 W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug, up to 2 per chassis
- Input
- 200–240 VAC (240 VDC China only); 8.7 A @ 200 VAC / 7.2 A @ 240 VAC; 50–60 Hz
Ports
- Per node
- 2 × SFP+ (10GbE), 1 × optional QSFP, 1 × USB 3.0, 1 × dedicated management NIC (RJ-45), 1 × SUV port (2 × USB 2.0 + 1 × VGA + 1 × UART)
Physical
- Dimensions (H × W × D)
- 8.73 × 44.81 × 89.37 cm (3.44 × 17.64 × 35.18 in)
- Weight
- 17.21 kg (37.94 lb) empty chassis; ~22.65 kg (49.93 lb) max enclosure
- Form factor
- 2U chassis; 42U rack fits up to 20 HPE z70 chassis (up to 80 Arm-based server nodes per rack)
- Fans
- 8 single-rotor hot-plug fan modules, standard
Management
- Cluster management
- HPE Performance Cluster Manager (system setup, hardware/cluster health monitoring, image management, power management)
- RCM
- Optional HPE Apollo 2000 Rack Consolidation Module — 2-port IPMI aggregation at chassis level, daisy-chainable to a top-of-rack management switch
- Workload managers
- Altair PBS Professional, PBS Professional Open Source, Slurm Workload Manager
- Dev tools
- HPE MPI, Open MPI, GCC, Arm Allinea Studio, Arm Forge Professional, Rogue Wave TotalView, Mellanox HPC-X, OpenHPC, NVIDIA CUDA-X / PGI Compilers / OpenACC
Operating systems
- Supported
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and up