Hi. This is Liam from GIGABYTE Marketing.
And part of our ongoing content for Computex 2021.
Today I’ll present to you some of our systems with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
As well, on my right here I have some for us to look at.
We have a 2U mixed storage system.
We have a 4 node system as well.
Behind me I have some motherboards.
So that’s what we will take a look at today.
As you are probably aware,
Intel has gone down from 14nm chips to 10nm,
and did so with great performance oriented improvements.
Now faster data transfer is possible with PCIe 4.0.
As well, per socket, 64 lanes of PCIe lanes.
Next, 3rd Gen Xeon tops out at 40 cores,
up from 28, and has plenty of other SKUs to match workloads.
Next Gen Memory,
DDR4 support is up to 3200MHz and the number of channels has expanded to 8.
And adding value and scalability there are many memory interleave options.
Intel Optane PMem 200 series,
improved latency and capacity,
supporting up to 6TB per socket from the 4TB only DDR4 modules.
Security has been boost most notably in cryptographic operations.
And last, AI performance is much better with DL Boost technology.
All in all, these Xeon chips will handle all data center workloads.
Next up is a brief look at 10 models of interest.
Starting with three new motherboards.
The MD72-HB2 is one of our best motherboards out there
given all the configuration possibilities and high-end features.
It has a dual socket design and 16 DIMM slots
for optimal performance on a E-ATX board.
As well it can sport up to 3 dual-slot GPUs.
And at the bottom you can see it has fast dual 10GbE, dual 1GbE LAN ports too.
Also worth a mention,
it has the new BMC controller, ASPEED 2600.
For storage, on the bottom left,
there are 3 slimline connectors for up to 12 SATA drives, and even 2 M.2 slots.
Next up we are looking at the MU92-TU0.
This is a full spec single socket board.
You can see it has 16 memory slots for 2 DIMMs per chanel…7 PCIe slots, all Gen 4 speed.
As well, it has dual 10GbE and tons of SATA drives are supported via slimline and SATA ports.
And yet the E-ATX board still has room for a M.2 drive.
Now we have a shrunk down the motherboard.
Here we are looking at the ATX form factor, MU72-SU0.
The ATX dimensions allow it to easily fit in a desktop chassis
and it priced to target those that want a cost-effective solution.
It too has a single processor and 8 DIMM slots.
Yet it has support for up to 12 SATA drives via 3 slimline ports.
And as this is suitable for a desktop it comes with 4 USB 3.0 ports.
We expect this one to be popular as well.
Moving onto our general purpose rack servers
First up is the R182-M80.
This variation of the R182 truly uses mixed storage.
In a 1U chassis, at the front,
it packs up to 4 large 3.5” SATA drives and 4 2.5” U.2 or SATA drives.
Yet there is still room for dual sockets and 32 DIMM slots.
Last, at the back,
there are 2 OCP slots and two full-height half-length expansion slots.
So, lots of possibilities.
This one is the more mainstream version of the R182.
It is the R182-NA0.
It is our all flash array SKU for extreme performance.
The all green tabs is a giveaway for Gen 4 drives.
All 10 drive bays support Gen 4 U.2, SAS, and SATA drives.
And it to maintains the dual socket configuration with a slot for OCP 3.0,
one for OCP 2.0, and expansion slots.
Moving up to 2U rack servers.
We have the R282-3C2.
Here again is mixed storage.
There are 8 blue SATA bays and 4 hybrid U.2 or SATA bays.
It has powerful cooling to support full features, dual sockets and 32 DIMM slots.
While it isn’t noted on this image,
it does in fact have the ASPEED 2600 for faster boot ups and overall stability improvements.
The last of our R series, general purpose rack servers today is the R282-NO0.
This one is almost identical to the one we just saw.
Big difference is that this is designed for tons of Gen 4 flash drives.
And to support 24 U.2 drives, we had to be creative so we could maintain flexibility.
There are 4 slimline ports on the motherboard for 16 of the drives,
and the other ones come from expansion slots.
This allows for using more accelerators or network cards instead of populating all drive bays.
Last it too has the ASPEED 2600.
Moving onto our High Density servers that embody compute, storage and networking.
The H-series is designed for HPC, hyper-converged infrastructure, and more.
First on the block is the 2U 4 node server that supports up to 4 Xeons
and comes in at a shorter depth of 695cm.
It is the H252-3C0.
Each node supports up to a single 270W Xeon and 3 SATA drives,
yet there are still 2 low profile slots and OCP on board.
And at the front are 12 3.5” or 2.5” SATA/SAS drive bays.
So, If scaling up is what you are after… this can do it.
And if you really want to push the limits,
we have the 2U 4 node H262-PC0.
Even though it doubles the number of CPUs per node,
it can maintain expansion and OPC slots
like the previous H252 we saw which was about 145cm shorter.
Also networking throughputs is boosted with dual 10GbE LAN ports on each node.
Instead of 3.5” drives,
this design favors fast flash drives and has 2 bays per node
in order to accommodate the necessary cooling.
And here we have come to the last server for today.
Our most impressive one of the lot.
Like its H262 brother we saw,
this H262-NO0 fills up all the drive bays with 2.5” U.2 drives.
It is for those that want extreme speeds, capacity, and redundancy out of their drives.
Well that wraps up our talk today about our Intel Xeon Scalable systems.
As well, we will have more and more systems and motherboards
coming out with the BMC controller ASPEED 2600.
To learn more visit us at gigabyte.com/enterprise.
Or email us directly at server.grp@gigabyte.com.
I’m Liam and thanks for taking the time to learn about our 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable systems.