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HP ProLiant Compute XD230

HPE's 1U, 2-socket scale-out compute node for HPC and AI clusters, built on 6th Gen Intel Xeon 6 P-core processors (up to 128 cores, 500 W) with 24 DDR5 channels supporting MRDIMM at up to 8800 MT/s. Offered air-cooled or with plug-and-play Direct Liquid Cooling, and Slingshot, InfiniBand NDR or standard Ethernet fabric options for rack-scale deployment.

Memory

Slots
24 DIMM (12 channels per processor, 1 DIMM per channel)
Type
DDR5 Registered (RDIMM) or Multiplexed Rank DIMM (MRDIMM)
Max
3 TB: 24 x 128 GB RDIMM @ 6400 MT/s, or MRDIMM @ 8800 MT/s

Storage

Chassis options
10x SFF NVMe (5 backplanes, 2 drives each) or 20x EDSFF E3.S 1T (5 backplanes, 4 drives each)
Boot
Optional M.2 NVMe SSD Mezz Riser: 2 x 480 GB or 2 x 960 GB, shipped with optional HPE NS204i-u NVMe Hot Plug Boot Optimized Storage Device
Controllers
HPE MR416i-p/o, MR216i-p/o, MR408i-o/p Gen11, or MR932i-p x32 Lanes PCIe Gen5 SPDM

Expansion

Slot 1 (Full Height Riser FIO Cage, P77595-B21)
PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, CPU1 & CPU2
Slot 2 (Low Profile Riser FIO Cage, P77596-B21)
PCIe 5.0 x16, low profile, CPU1 & CPU2

Networking

Embedded
None standard; choose an OCP 3.0 adapter (2 slots, A/B) or PCIe NIC
Fabric options
Slingshot 200/400 Gbps, InfiniBand NDR/NDR200, or standard Ethernet up to 400 Gb (OCP3/PCIe)

Power

Bays
Up to 2 HPE M-CRPS hot-plug power supplies (1 minimum)
Options
2400 W Titanium (C20); 3200 W Titanium (C20); 2800 W 277 VAC Titanium; all 96% efficient

Ports

Front
1 x USB 3.2 Gen1
Rear
2 x USB 3.2 Gen1; 1 x VGA; 1 x dedicated iLO management port
Internal
1 x USB 3.2 Gen1

Physical

Form factor
1U rack
Dimensions
4.3 x 43.46 x 86.47 cm (H x W x D)
Net weight
23.32 kg
Ship weight
~35.55 kg (10 SFF configuration)

Management

BMC
HPE iLO ASIC
Tools
UEFI (Class 3), iLO RESTful API (Redfish), OpenBMC capable via iLO Transfer of Ownership
Security
UEFI Secure Boot and Secure Start, HPE XD Hardware Root of Trust, Runtime Firmware Validation

Operating systems

Support
Windows Server, VMware ESXi 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu — see HPE Servers Support & Certification Matrices

Processors

  • Intel Xeon 6980P
  • Intel Xeon 6978P
  • Intel Xeon 6972P
  • Intel Xeon 6960P
  • Intel Xeon 6952P