HPE Cray XD2000 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Cray XD2000 is a dense 2U shared infrastructure chassis designed for high performance computing and scale-out scientific simulation clusters. The ThinkSystem SD530 was Lenovo's modular 2U 4-node ultra-dense multi-node server designed for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise grid clusters, large-scale financial simulation, and cloud service provider scale-out…
| HPE Cray XD2000 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | current | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2022 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U 4-node chassis | 2U 4-node |
| Chassis form factor | 2U 4-node multi-node chassis | — |
| Supported nodes | HPE Cray XD220v (Intel) or XD225v (AMD EPYC 9004) | — |
| Node density | Up to 4 half-width dual-socket server nodes | — |
| Storage options | Up to 24 SFF SAS, SATA, or NVMe SSDs per chassis | — |
| Cooling | Direct liquid cooling or high-efficiency air cooling modules | — |
| Interconnect | Integrated support for InfiniBand NDR and HPE Slingshot | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 2 |
| Cpu platform | — | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 165W TDP per node (8 CPUs per 2U chassis) |
| Memory slots | — | 16 |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays per node (up to 24 drives per 2U D2 chassis) |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated LOM slot per node |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM slot per node plus shared chassis Scalable Infrastructure Management Controller |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies in D2 chassis |
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