Perhaps, Supermicro and does not apply to first-tier computer manufacturers, but its products are often used under its brand manufacturers servers second, third and fourth echelons of world. Rather, it is because companies are usually able to advance to propose solutions that support the latest technologies, including far only preparing to enter the market.
Year ago at an exhibition on Supercomputing SC08, Supermicro, without any hesitation almost first introduced several system boards under the Nehalem EP Xeon 5500, before the official release which was still four months. After a year at SC09, history repeats itself, only now in the role of “skorospelok” stand board for future AMD Magny-Cours Opteron 6100 with connector G34, built on the basis of the same chipsets AMD .
expected that the eight-and dvenadtsatiyadernye Opteron 6100 and chipsets for socket G34 will be officially presented at the end of the first quarter of next year, but during the second Lisbon Opteron 4100 will come with the connector C32. By showing such a willingness to support the earlier promising products, Supermicro entirely justifiably rely on the broad demand for their boards.
While Opteron 6100 focused more on two-or four-processor servers, or even systems with a large number of processors – if the implementation of the chipset, one of the presented Supermicro motherboards designed for the installation of a single Magny-Cours. We can assume that such a decision, at least temporarily, take a niche entry-level systems based on the new processors. It is, of course, this concept is applicable to a system with 8 or 12 processor cores. In any case, due to the presence of eight memory slots, where you can install DDR3 modules, totaling up to 64 GB, you get a very productive workstation, or server quite a decent workgroup, depending on what set the Slots – graphics card or RAID controller. Name cards – H8SGL-F,-F with the title indicates the presence of the embedded server management, which now do not need dozakazyvat in the form of options and take an expansion slot for its installation. Connectors, incidentally, only six – three PCI-Express 2.0 (one x16 and two x8), and three PCI-X.
Supermicro also provided a dual-processor boards, H8DGU -F. As in the case of a uniprocessor, there have eight slots for installing memory modules on each processor socket that allows you to “fill” them up to 128 GB using more or less common modules DDR3 (not given too long costly alternatives with more capacity ). A very interesting feature of this board is the ability to connect the child (in terms of Supermicro – «universal”) I/O card with a different set of interfaces, PCI-X and PCI-Express. Three connectors for possible consideration in the picture to the left of processors and memory.
Among the products displayed by the company, may be separately mentioned rack-mount chassis height 4U SuperChassis 847A-R1400, is designed to fit brand motherboard EATX or ATX, and supports up to 36 hard disks 3,5. In addition to 24 front landing sites, perform the same model, the precursor, there is added another 12 seats from the rear of the hull. We can assume that the transition to 2.5 “drives with the same allocation scheme Supermicro could double the number of drives in a 4U chassis. According to some assumptions, such products may appear in the next year.
The company also stated that it intends to issue a decision to support the new server processors Intel , expected early next year – an eight-Nehalem EX Xeon 7500 and Quad Itanium Tukwila. It is unknown what exactly will offer Supermicro, but its representatives have hinted that the most logical options to use both chips would have been four-and eight-system.
Materials on the topic:
– Supermicro announced 4 Tflop system with a GPU;
– Supermicro Desktop Platforms based on chipsets Intel G45/G43.
