C2G xStream Hyper-Converged Technology leverages switches inside the device chassis to create a fabric for handling heavy loads of east-west network traffic between nodes – common in clouds – and a top-of-rack server-switch that can feed into a spine switch to link racks of machines together.

1. Cloud2Ground xStream Hyper-Converged
Cloud Platform
“Managing Infinite Data From Every Direction”

2. •C2G xStream Hyper-Converged Technology leverages switches inside the
device chassis to create a fabric for handling heavy loads of east-west
network traffic between nodes – common in clouds – and a top-of-rack
server-switch that can feed into a spine switch to link racks of machines
together.
• Our Micro Blade device is one of the most dense hyperscale systems out
there on the market today. The compute in the machine is based on Intel’s
eight-core “Avoton” Atom C2000 processors, which pack about the same
wallop as a two-socket “Nehalem” server from early 2009 and do so in a
much, much smaller thermal envelope. As such, the 6U enclosure has two
rows of compute sleds, each with four independent Avoton compute nodes,
each with up to 16 GB of memory in two SO-DIMM memory slots, and one
2.5-inch SATA-3 disk or solid state drive. That yields 112 server nodes in the
6U chassis, which is pretty dense as these things go. The Micro Blade is using
the Atom C2750, which has eight cores running at 2.4 GHz.

3. •The back-end of the Micro Blade enclosure has four bays for integrated
switches for linking the compute nodes in the chassis to each other and
for uplinking to top-of-rack switches. These integrated Micro Blade
switches are based on Intel’s “Alta” FM5224 switch chips and they
provide a total of 56 downlinks running at 2.5 Gb/sec to the Avoton
chips. (Each Avoton chip has four 2.5 Gb/sec ports on its die.)
• The Micro Blade switch modules have two 40 Gb/sec uplinks (with QSFP
connectors) to hook the chassis to the top-of-rack switch and these can
be broken down with four-to-one splitters into eight 10 Gb/sec SFP+
uplinks. The module has 442 Gb/sec of aggregate switching bandwidth
and supports L2 datacenter bridging, converged enhanced Ethernet
(which means the ability to support Fibre Channel over Ethernet), and
OpenFlow 1.X software-defined networking to separate the control plane
from the data plane.

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SQL Accelerator
C2G SW
C2G xStream
C2G xStream Hyper-Converged Cloud Platform

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