Rain Computers

Processors

Quad-Core Processor (standard)

• Two 2.13GHz, 2.4GHz or 2.53GHz Intel "Westmere" Xeon Quad-core
• 2 x 8MB L3 Smart Cache
• Intel Turbo Boost
• 4.8GT/s or 5.88GT/s QPI Speed
• Hyper Threading for up to 16 virtual cores
• 32nm or 45nm Lithography

6-Core Processors (optional)

• 2.4GHz , 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz or 3.46GHz Intel "Westmere" Xeon 6-Core
• 2 x 12MB L3 Smart Cache
• Intel Turbo Boost
• 6.4GT/s QPI Speed
• Hyper Threading for up to 24 virtual cores
• 32nm Lithography

Memory

Eight memory slots for 12GB, 24GB or 48GB 1333MHz DDR3 Triple Channel SDRAM

Hard Drives¹

Five hard drive bays with two 6Gb/s SATA III and six 3GB/s SATA II independent channels

One Fast Change hard drive bay included; additional Fast Change hard drive attachments available

Primary hard drive bay (Fast Change)

Each drive is1TB or 2TB SATA III 7200RPM High Performance drives with 32MB or 64MB Cache; Available 256GB and 512GB Solid State Drives

Total storage capacity: 10 tarabytes; optional RAID 0,1,5 or 10

Optical Drive

StormDrive Dual Layer CD/DVD Writer

LightScribe disc labeling technology; 2MB Buffer; Buffer Underrun Protection

Max Read: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD)

Max Write: 48x (CD) / 24x (DVD±R)

Max Rewrite: 32x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW)

StormDrive CD/DVD/Blu-Ray (optional):

LightScribe disc labeling technology; 2MB Buffer; Buffer Underrun Protection

Max Read: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD) / 10x (BD)

Max Write: 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD±R) / 8x (DVD±R DL)

Max Rewrite: 24x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW) / 12x (DVD-RAM)

Video and Graphics

NVIDIA workstation graphics accelerator with support for 2-way/3-way ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI technology

Options:

• NVIDIA Quadro 600 [1GB GDDR3]
  1 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI
• NVIIDA Quadro 4000 [2GB GDDR5]
  2 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI
• NVIDIA Quadro 5000 [2.5GB GDDR5]
  2 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI
• NVIDIA Quadro 6000 [6GB GDDR5]
  2 x DisplayPort, 1 x Dual Link DVI

Onboard Audio

• High Definition Audio
• 7.1 Channel
• Support for S/PDIF In/Out

I/O Ports

USB 3.0
Two USB 3.0 ports, streaming up to 4.8Gb/s

USB 2.0
Six USB 2.0 ports, streaming up to 480Mb/s

eSATA
Two eSATA/USB Combination ports, streaming up to 3Gb/s

FireWire (optional)
Optional two FireWire 400 ports on the audio industry-standard TI Chipset

PCI/PCIe Expansion

Seven full length PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots [x16]

Connectivity

LAN
One Gigabit Ethernet port; 10/100/1000 Base T RJ-45 port

WiFi (optional)
Optional PCI Express 2.0 WiFi adapter 150mbps [b/g/n]