Later this yr Intel is ready to introduce its Xeon 6-branded processors, codenamed Granite Rapids (6x00P) and Sierra Forest (6x00E). And with it’ll come a brand new slew of server motherboards and pre-built server platforms to go together with it. On the latter word, this would be the first technology the place Intel will not offer any pre-builts of its personal, after promoting that enterprise off to MiTAC final yr.
To that finish, MiTAC and its subsidiary Tyan have been at this yr’s occasion to show what they have been as much as since buying Intel’s server enterprise unit, in addition to to point out off the server platforms they’re creating for the Xeon 6 household. Altogether, the businesses had two server platforms on show – a compact 2S system, and a bigger 2S system with important growth capabilities – in addition to a pair of single-socket designs from Tyan.
The most simple platform that MiTAC needed to present is their TX86-E7148 (Katmai Pass), a half-width 1U system that is the successor to Intel’s D50DNP platform. Katmai Pass has two CPU sockets, helps as much as 2 TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMMs over 16 slots (eight per CPU), and has two low-profile PCIe 5.zero x16 slots. Like its predecessor, this platform is geared toward mainstream servers that don’t want a variety of storage or room to accommodate cumbersome add-in playing cards like AI accelerators.
The firm’s different platform is TX77A-E7142 (Deer Creek Pass), a significantly extra severe providing that replaces Intel’s M50FCP platform. This board can home as much as Four TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMMs over 32 slots (16 per CPU with 2DPC), 4 PCIe 5.zero x16 slots, one PCIe 5.zero x8 slot, two OCP 3.zero slots, and 24 hot-swap U.2 bays. Deer Creek Pass can be utilized each for general-purpose workloads, high-performance storage, in addition to workloads that require GPUs or different special-purpose accelerators.
Meanwhile Tyan had the single-socket Thunder CX GC73A-B5660 on show. That system helps as much as 2 TB of DDR5-6400 reminiscence over 16 RDIMMs and gives two PCIe 5.zero x16 slots, one PCIe 4.zero x4 M.2 slot, two OCP 3.zero slots, and 12 hot-swappable U.2 drive bays.
Finally, Tyan’s Thunder HX S5662 is an HPC server board particularly designed to accommodate a number of AI accelerators and different giant PCIe playing cards. This board helps one Xeon 6 6700 processor, as much as 1 TB of reminiscence over eight DDR5-6400 RDIMMs, and has 5 tradiitonal PCIe 5.zero x16 slots in addition to two PCIe 5.zero x2 M.2 slots for storage.
MiTAC is anticipated to start out shipments of those new Xeon 6 motherboards within the coming months, as Intel rolls out its next-generation datacenter CPUs. Pricing of those platforms is unknown for now, however count on it to be akin to present servers.
