Server solutions provider Super Micro Computer Inc. (Supermicro) announced this week the availability of its 8-core, 4-way Xeon servers.
Supermicro’s 8016B-6F, 8016B-TF, 8026B-6RF, 8026B-TRF, 8046B-6RF, and 8046B-TRF SuperServers are optimized for the 8-Core Intel Xeon processor 7500 series. They feature up to 256 GB memory, a 93 percent energy efficiency, and robust enterprise virtualization performance.
Supermicro president and CEO Charles Liang says his company’s high-efficiency Server Building Block solutions enable consolidation and virtualization for SMBs. “Our 1U, 2U, and 4U SuperServers optimized for the new Intel Xeon 7500 processors provide compelling solutions for the dense rack segment. These servers can significantly boost both virtualization and overall performance compared to the previous generations having the same power envelope.”
Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group says the Xeon-optimized servers deliver “unprecedented new levels of performance and platform scalability.”
Skaugen adds, “Supermicro’s SuperServer line takes advantage of new capabilities and offers customers 4-way server solutions well-suited for a variety of demanding enterprise and high performance computing applications.”
Based on Supermicro’s X8QB6-F and X8QBE-F serverboards, the 8016B-6F/TF, 8026B-6RF/TRF, 8046B-6RF, and 8046B-TRF SuperServers all support up to 256 GB of registered ECC DDR3 memory via 32 DIMM slots.
The performance boosting features of Supermicro’s new 4-way systems include up to four PCI-E Gen 2.0 slots and 90 percent power-efficient VRMs. Onboard 6 GB-per-second SAS (SAS 2.0) controller with hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 60 support comes standard on the 8016B-6F, 8026B-6RF, and 8046B-6RF servers. These new platforms also offer onboard IPMI 2.0 with media and KVM-over-LAN support for optimal remote management.
