Three servers went into the Supermicro booth...
THERE WERE THREE standout items at the Supermicro booth during CeBIT, a chassis, a blade and a card. It isn't the start of an off color joke, three parts were in a booth..... just a large variety of goodies.
The coolest one for me was the new SC216 chassis, it packs 24 2.5-inch drive bays in the front panel. The chassis is just that, a chassis, so expect a bunch of different variants for Intel, AMD and whatever else you need. Supermicro also has an SC213 chassis with 16 drive bays and a conventional slim DVD arrangement in the third section.
Supermicro SC216 chassis
The newest blade from Supermicro is the SBE-714D, and it is much denser than the old setup. This one has up to 14 blades in a 7U chassis vs 10 in the old system, they are obviously not interchangeable. The 714D packs a San Clemente chipset, two Xeons, six Dimms and up to three HDs. The HDs make for a very flexible product, RAID5 on a blade is a good thing.
SBE-714D blade setup
We were caught off guard by the Supermicro network cards, there are four initially, all ethernet cards. If you need 10GigE for you chassis, you can order it all from the same vendor. Not a bad idea, 10GigE is coming fast, and price drops like this are one way to hasten the arrival. One of the cards is 'wrong' though, and a prize of three nothings to the first reader who can tell me which one and why.
Supermicro cards
The last thing is not new, just an update of the existing products. The Twin 1U chassis now has a new motherboard available, this time with a San Clemente chipset. Basically it is the same as the old one, but produces far less heat because it lacks FB-DIMMs. µ
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i hereby claim three nothings, because i guess you meant the bottom left card, because of orientation (pcb in relation to slot cover) it would be "upside down" compared to the other cards....i guess the pcie wouldn't even touch the connector...anyways, pcie x8 is very nice for a nic ;)

p.s.: i've been reading the inq before it even existed and still it's crappy asp, crappy invalid html and some crappy ie-only crap. oh yeah and the captchas are most crappish of it all (don't work in opera e.g.) etc.etc.

AT adds: Someone with your typing skills shouldn't thorw tsones.
Is it the one on the far left that is mirror imaged compared to the others ???
Is the card at the bottom left mounted upside down?
Third from the left.
Upside down.
The one with 3 heatsinks it's a 4 port Gigabit ethernet card not 10gigE

AOC-UG-i4
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-I4.cfm
I thought it might have been bottom right board, as it looked like different connectors and may have 4 black isolating transformers indicating electrical rather than optical? 4 x 1Gb ?
This is since the cards is one of supermicro's UIO slot cards
Yeah, one is only gig-e, rest have the standard 10gig-e connectors.

As for site compatibility, every time I have found a bug on the page I flame (err, send off a message) saying what the issue is, last time it was the captcha not working in thermalferret 3 beta 3, all smooth sailing since that (beta 4 is working fine).
its the bottom right one since thers differently coloured heatsinks
I say use 4 X 1gb & hook into native Lan on three other servers, then use 3 X2 10 gb when Don't have any 1 gb for Gaming Server #1, with 1 gb thrown into Four or five when you want to crimp your style.Opps, also use flashlight to translate for two, 1 &10. I still think keep expensive opticals & Give Boss cheapo 1 gbif you can find cableing.
drashek