The 2U Twin2 extends Supermicro's innovative Twin architecture with hot-swappable compute nodes in space-efficient form factors to facilitate ease of maintenance, reduce/eliminate down time, while saving power and space by sharing the same chassis and power supplies. The 2U Twin2 model is optimized for space efficiency and performance-per-watt, featuring four hot-swappable 1U compute nodes in a 2U form factor, each with up to six hot-swap 2.5" SAS2/SATA3 drive bays for exceptional storage capacity. The 2U Twin2 also offers one x16 native PCI-Express 3.0 slot for highest non-blocking I/O bandwidth, 8 DIMM slots per node for up to 512GB of ECC LRDIMM memory, onboard Gigabit Ethernet or Mellanox ConnectX3 single-port 56Gbps InfiniBand to provide greatest networking connectivity, and redundant 1600-watt Titanium Level (96%+) power supplies for greatest efficiency.

Dual socket R3 (LGA 2011) supports Intel Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4, v3 family; QPI up to 9.6GT/s Up to 512GB ECC DDR4 2133MHz; 8x DIMM slots 1x PCI-E 3.0 (x16) low-profile Intel i350 Dual port GbE LAN 3x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA3 drive bays 1600W Redundant Power Supplies Titanium Level (96%)