Welcome to GIGABYTE, this is Hoshino.
I’m in charge of server product planning and strategy in GIGABYTE.
Today, I would like to introduce our new generation of ThunderX platform.
Back in 2014, we start develop our ThunderX platform with Cavium.
That’s the worldwide first dual-socket processors and it’s very powerful.
We create a line-up with 1U, 2U mainstream and other form factor with Cavium.
And after that,
we also developed the second generation ThunderX2 with Cavium together.
And we also have a customer base with Cavium
and send out our products with customer for ARM64 solution.
And this year,
we are now developing new generation ThunderX3, now is Marvell.
We also cooperate with Marvell to develop this new generation.
It’s much more powerful solution based on TSMC 7nm Technology.
But this year as you know,
the eco-system of ARM64 will be more completed
and it’s enough for customer to build their server with
not only the hardware solution also for the software
or application with the eco-system,
whatever the OS driver of the LAN card or RAID card sever.
So, today.
I will introduce this new generation server for your guys.
And it’s especially for HPC and Cloud applications.
We launch our first generation ThunderX1 solution with Cavium in 2016 in Shanghai.
And at that time, it design mainly is the standard form factor.
We use an EATX form factor motherboard
and integrate that motherboard into 1U and 2U chassis
and in other form factor chassis with Cavium together.
But from the second generation ThunderX2 is different.
We created the CRS with the optimized dual sockets
designing for 1U and 2U directly.
And it’s optimized designing for the Cloud and HPC usage.
And for this generation,
ThunderX3 now we do the cooperation with Marvell guys
use the optimized designing you can see the engineering sample here,
directly for the CRS and we will use this kind of optimized designing
for HPC and Cloud application together.
This is the first disclosure of the GIGABYTE ThunderX3 server.
R282 series servers are designing
for balance general purpose usage in data centers.
Based on our building blog and common designing development concept.
R282 series can provide a wide of range SKU configurations in storage,
rear I/O and power supply.
Here’s an engineering sample of our R282 ThunderX3 solution.
It can support 20 hot-swap 2.5” SATA/SAS hard disk driver
and 4 NVMe U.2 SSDs in the front and 2 SATA in the rear.
Due to the NVIDIA 2019 announcement
the V100 GPU can be supported on ThunderX platform.
We are planning to provide the GPU support SKU
within optimized cooling system.
Inside the 2U chassis,
there is a proprietary form factor board with dual ThunderX3 SoCs.
It is different from previous generations.
We are now use LGA a socket type to provide better flexibility and choice.
Up to 32 DIMMs at the highest speed of 3200 MHz
and Marvell dual 1G is available on ThunderX3 platform.
The R282, ThunderX3 solution is a very competitive solution for server.
And this is the first product of ThunderX3.
If we meet some different demand from customer or market,
we also can provide different architecture
and different series product for customers.
In term, with Marvell strategy we will focus on HPC and Cloud applications.
GIGABYTE, Marvell, ARM form a very strong team
and we will contribute our solution to server market together.
And we want to achieve higher marketing share in the server market.
Thanks.