Several manufacturers have introduced new servers based on Intel’s recently presented fourth scalable Xeon generation (Sapphire Rapids). New hardware comes from Lenovo, Supermicro, Gigabyte and Tyan.
Lenovo
Lenovo announced its servers based on Sapphire Rapids on January 10 via press release on. The range of 3rd generation rack servers includes SR630, SR650, SR850 and SR860. The manufacturer is also adapting the water-cooled high-performance SD650 server slots, which can be equipped with Intel’s Xeon Max top models including HBM2e stack memory.
Sapphire Rapids CPUs can also be combined in 8-socket servers. Lenovo solves the resulting space problem with the SR950 V3 with a double-decker, including rear wiring of the mainboards.
SR630 is a single-height server with two CPU sockets, 32 DDR5 memory slots and up to 18 EDSFF NVMe drives, five PCIe 5.0 x16 cards and two M.2. An OCP 3.0 adapter is available for the connection to the outside world. The counterpart of twice the height and correspondingly more data carriers is the SR650.
The quadruple high flagship SR860 can be equipped with four new Xeons and offers corresponding memory, PCIe and data storage scaling. The double-height SR850 offers less space with the same performance.
A maximum of twelve SD650 servers fit into the sixfold high DW612S housing. Each blade houses two Max CPUs, 16 DDR5 DIMMs and two PCIe 5.0×16 cards. The water cooling ensures optimized heat dissipation. Already announced but not available until later in the year is the 8-socket SR950 V3 system. Two 4U servers are wired ten times on the back and the connection between the processors is established in this way. Also in prospect is the ST650, the tower version of the SR650, equipped with two Intel CPUs.
supermicro
supermicro renews its complete Intel-based server range. The 13th generation (X13) includes the well-known SuperBlade, GPU Server, Hyper, Big, Grand and FatTwin, SuperEdge and Edge, CloudDC, WIO, Petascale Storage and MP Server types, equipped with the fourth Xeon SP generation and the resulting benefits. By raising the inlet temperature for air-cooled systems to 40 °C, Supermicro tries to compensate for the higher electrical power consumption.
Supermicro’s range of servers for Intel’s Sapphire Rapids family.
gigacomputing
Giga Computing – formerly Gigabyte – not only announces new single and dual socket motherboards, but also offers rack and edge servers based on it. As before, rack servers have an R in the type designation. They are still available in single or double height (first digit) and optionally with one or two CPUs (R283, R183, R162, R163, R263). Furthermore, the systems differ in the well-known gigabyte manner with regard to the data carrier expansion. The manufacturer also adapts the 2U or 4U GPU servers (G283, G593). The E283, E263 and E163 are renewed for the edge servers with a smaller installation depth. And the water-cooled, double-height high-density model H263 will soon be available with four Sapphire Rapids and up to 24 U.2 NVMe drives.
Tyan/MiTAC
Tyan, a MiTAC daughter, also throws multiple systems with Thunder-HX, -SX and -CX according to Intel specification on the market. The systems differ in form factor, number of CPUs, DRAM, PCIe 5.0 and M.2, and disk assembly. The Thunder HX FT65T-B5652 offers HP computing directly at the desk. The 4U tower housing contains a Sapphire Rapids CPU, eight DDR5 DIMMs, four PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, six 3.5″ SATA and two NVMe U.2 and M.2 each.
4th Gen Intel Xeon SP – Sapphire Rapids
The most important innovations of the new Intel CPUs can be found in the report on the official announcement.
In summary: The CPUs manufactured in Intel 7 production support DDR5 memory (also Intel Optane PMem 300 Persistent Memory), more PCIe 5.0 channels for GPUs and NVMe drives and up to 60 cores per chip. The new Xeons offer more performance, some of which are also achieved via new silicon-cast accelerator functions, for which the code has to be adapted or at least recompiled. Unfortunately, the power requirement also increases under full load. The model range is divided into bronze (3400), silver (5400), gold (6400), platinum (8400) and new Max (9400), as well as in the second level according to application from IoT, through general purpose to high performance ( In-Memory-Database/Analytics/Virtualization).
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