Alchemist XFTM

Certified Turnkey
Solutions
Data Sheet

Tailor-made, convenient and very powerful!

The new Alchemist XFTM turnkey solutions
combine our world class media processing
software with carefully selected state of the
art hardware to offer you immediate and
convenient access to our technology.

In todays rapidly evolving IT

environment, there is an abundance of
choice when it comes to hardware.

We have ensured you have fast

memory and enough of it to convert
even 4k media!

Selecting the ideal platform or building

a bespoke machine from the ground
up can be a time-consuming process,
fraught with potential compatibility
issues.

Professional or Enterprise Turnkey Solution

Outstanding performance and

stability is crucial for maximizing your
investment and realizing the potential
of your xFile product. Why take the risk?
Let us do the work for you!
F ile-based processing at a real time
speed
R
 eady for immediate use out of the
box
C
 ertified by SAM engineering
H
 ardware & software supported by
SAM
Why choose our solution?
We understand the needs of our
software better than anyone else.
We have thoroughly studied the
demands of simultaneously decoding
and encoding popular compressed
broadcast formats on a variety of CPUs.
We have mastered which GPUs offer
the optimum performance for high end
OpenCL media processing and how
many PCI lanes are required to unleash
the full potential of a multi-GPU system.

All this combined with our extensive

thermal analysis, high powered efficient
PSU and a robust, versatile form factor
provides solutions worthy of the SAM
brand.

Category

Professional

Enterprise

Real Time Speed

Yes

Yes

Form Factor

4u (upright or rack-mounted)

4u (upright or rack-mounted)

CPU Family

i7

Xeon

No. of CPUs

PCI-E Bandwidth per GPU

X8 3.0

X16 3.0

GPU Grade

Commodity (active cooling)

Enterprise (passive cooling)

Redundant PSU

No

Yes

PSU Efficiency

Platinum

Titanium

Spare PCI-E Slot

No

Yes

Memory

Non-ECC

ECC

IPMI

Yes

Yes

Storage

1 x 120GB SSD

2 x 240GB SSD

USB3.0

Yes

Yes

Operating System

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2

Alchemist XF Certified Turnkey Solutions

Data sheet

Alchemist XF is available as a turnkey

solution

Alchemist XF is the first xFile product

available as a Turnkey Solution. Both the
Professional and Enterprise hardware
offer ample processing power for
current and future xFile products.

All turnkey solutions include hardware

and product license/s. First year
software maintenance is mandatory.

Which option is best for me?

We have created two fantastic

packages for you to choose from.
The decision depends largely on your
perspective towards enterprise or
commodity components and your
business requirements.

In addition, enterprise hardware offers

the ability to install a high speed host
bus adapter offering fast connectivity to
remote storage (SAN / NAS).

Commodity components are far more

cost effective, however enterprise
components offer features such as
ECC memory (protects against data
corruption), redundant power supplies,
increased CPU processing power and
motherboard bandwidth.
Form factor and OS?

Both solutions come in a versatile 4U

chassis that can be deployed either
upright or rack-mounted and both
come with Windows Server 2012,
enabling support for the Apple ProRes
family of codecs.

New to xFile?

A scalable, file-based software

framework, xFile combines SAMs image
processing expertise with commodity
IT equipment to offer next generation
media transformation products.

What performance can I expect?

Alchemist XF

floating licensing model provides the

versatility to evolve and adapt with
changing business requirements.

Real time

Real time

Professional x 1 license

Enterprise x 1 License

625 50i DVCPro to 525 59i IMX

50p DNxHD to 1080 59p XDCAM
Its720
Service
Orientated Architecture and
1080 25p XDCAM to 1080 29p AVC-I
720 50p DNxHD to 1080 59p ProRes
1080 25p XDCAM to 1080 59p AVC-I

From
$24,000*
*Including mandatory 1st year software maintenance
Company policy is one of continuous product
improvement. Specifications are therefore provisional and
subject to change without notice. 2016 SAM.
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