Preface Preface About This Manual This manual is written for professional system integrators and PC technicians. It provides information for the installation and use of the SCF424 2U chassis. Instal lation and maintenance should be performed by experienced technicians only. The FatTwin™ is the latest addition to Supermicro's evolving line of Twin Architecture SuperServer® solutions. The 4U FatTwin greatly expands computer and storage capacities beyond Supermicro's existing 2U Twin2™ and 1U Twin™ SuperServer® systems to achieve increased performance with lower power consumption.
By virtue of its shared components the FatTwin improves cost-effectiveness and reliability, while its modular architecture makes it flexible to configure and easy to maintain. The FatTwin is available in a variety of configurations, with options for hot-swappable hard drives, fixed hard drives, redundant power supplies, front or rear I/O, PCI and networking options and more. Its high-efficiency, highly effective shared cooling architecture allows the FatTwin to operate in high-temperature, free-air cooled environments up to 47°C, providing considerable cost savings and improved TCO.
Versatile configurations allow the FatTwin to be optimized for many different environ ments including Data Center, Cloud Computing, and HPC; Engineering, Research, and GPU projects; File and Storage Server deployments; and General Server and Enterprise Server applications. This document lists compatible parts available when this document was published. Always refer to the our web site for updates on supported parts and configurations iii