The ADLINK MCS-2080 is a so-called "3m" platform with the m's standing for modular architecture, designed for media, and mass data processing. The MCS-2080 leverages MICA's hybrid design for compute nodes, supporting the installation of either eight 1/4-width dual-system dual-processor nodes (Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7 processors or Intel® Xeon® processor E3), or four 1/2-width single-system dual-processor nodes (Intel® Xeon® processor E5), or a combination of both. The Core™/Xeon® processor E3 systems have built-in hardware acceleration units for video processing and are suitable for handling video transcoding and analytics tasks. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5 systems provide high performance computing especially suited to big data tasks. The main features of the MCS-2080 are summarized as follows:
- 16 systems (MCN-1500 compute node) or 4 systems (MCN- 2600 compute node), hybrid combinations supported
- Intel® Quick Sync Video technology with hardware assisted H.265/VP9 transcoding
- Built-in dual redundant switches, each providing 16x1G internal links to compute nodes and 4x10G uplinks
- Eight PCIe x8 slots to meet expansion requirements
- Support for IPMI 2.0 specification to provide web-based intelligent system management and support for SOL on compute nodes
- Adaptive fan speeds to reduce the fan noise and power usage while ensuring system health
- Dual redundant power supply units with power health monitoring and abnormal situation alert via IPMI interface
- Support for MediaManager to provide prototyping for frequently used video server functions to speed up product development
- Support for open source software from OpenStack and Apache YARN ecosystems, a big data-ready platform