LABS Boston Solutions Future Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product families September 2014 Powered by
CONTENTS 2 About Boston & Boston Labs 8 Quattro Solutions 3 Intel CPU Overview & Benefits At-A-Glance 10 Igloo Storage 4 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPU SKUs 12 Venom Solutions 5 Processor Architecture 13 SuperFlex Blade Solutions 5 X10 Dual Processor Motherboards: New Enhancements 14 Value Series Solutions ABOUT BOSTON Boston is a global IT solutions manufacturer and systems integrator, specialising in industry leading power efficient infrastructure solutions primarily for the datacentre, HPC, media & entertainment and financial arenas. For over 20 years, organisations of all sizes and market segments have leveraged Boston s expertise in bespoke OEM and embedded platforms. Our state of the art lab facilities and qualified engineers lay the foundation for our long pedigree of award winning solutions. As a global technology provider, Boston has supported numerous projects around the world for mission critical, high performance applications. Since its founding in London, UK, Boston has expanded operations globally. Following on from the successful launch of Boston IT Solutions India in 2009, Boston launched Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH in Germany a year later, with offices opening on the East coast of America in 2013. BOSTON LABS Boston Labs is the highly innovative performance and benchmarking centre where next generation technologies are put through their paces prior to production release. Boston has opened our R&D facilities to allow customers to try the latest platforms using their own tools or existing hardware. Understandably, some customers may not be able to visit our labs in person therefore arrangements can be made for test systems to be set up in our labs with remote access via RDP, SSH or other means; enabling you to trial our solutions from wherever you are in the world. To stay up to date with Boston Labs visit us at www.bostonlabs.co.uk 2
LABS INTEL CPU OVERVIEW The Future Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product families, based on former codename Haswell, and Supermicro X10 dual processor motherboards is finally here - and available to buy from Boston now! Intel s new processors enable significant performance improvements over the previous generation through a higher core count (from 4 to 18 cores), improved memory bus (from 1866MHz to 2133MHz) as well as improved peripheral expansion potential. Number of Cores HASWELL-EP (Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3) 18 cores TDP: Up to 145 W (Server); 160 W (WS) IVY BRIDGE-EP (Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2) 12 cores TDP: Up to 130 W (Server); 150 W (WS) C612 C602 Socket Socket - R3 Socket - R QPI 4x DDR-4 channels Up to 2133MHz RDIMM, LRDIMM 2xQPI Up to 9.6 GT/s 4x DDR-3 channels Up to 1866MHz RDIMM, LRDIMM 2xQPI Up to 8 GT/s PCIE PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0 PCH Specifications 40x PCIe Up to 6x USB3, 8x USB2 ports, 10x SATA3 ports 40x PCIe No USB3 Support 2x SATA3; 4x SATA2 USB 2.0 BENEFITS AT-A-GLANCE New X10 dual processor motherboards by Supermicro offer enhancements that will deliver increased performance, reliability, flexibility, expandability and manageability Outstanding new features include NVMe, additional support for SAS3/SATA3/NVDIMM, improved thermal performance, flexible I/O and enhanced system management tools New Haswell architecture improves performance by up to 90% while reducing platform power consumption Boston, in partnership with Supermicro, is delivering the broadest product line-up with TTM to enable customers to deploy Haswell solutions ahead of the competition 3 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
INTEL XEON E5-2600 v3 CPU SKUS Cores Clock Speed Cache Power Speed E5-2699 v3 18 2.3 GHz 45 MB 145W 2133 MHz E5-2698 v3 16 2.3 GHz 40 MB 135W 2133 MHz E5-2697 v3 14 2.6 GHz 35 MB 145W 2133 MHz E5-2695 v3 14 2.3 GHz 35 MB 120W 2133 MHz E5-2683 v3 14 2.0 GHz 35 MB 120W 2133 MHz E5-2690 v3 12 2.6GHz 30 MB 135W 2133MHz E5-2680 v3 12 2.5GHz 30 MB 120W 2133MHz E5-2670 v3 12 2.3GHz 30 MB 120W 2133 MHz E5-2650L v3 12 1.8 GHz 30 MB 65W 2133 MHz E5-2660 v3 10 2.6 GHz 25 MB 105W 2133 MHz E5-2650 v3 10 2.3 GHz 25 MB 105W 2133 MHz E5-2687W v3 10 3.1 GHz 25 MB 160W 2133 MHz E5-2640 v3 8 2.6 GHz 20 MB 90W 1866 MHz E5-2630 v3 8 2.4 GHz 20 MB 85W 1866 MHz E5-2667 v3 8 3.2 GHz 20 MB 135W 2133 MHz E5-2630L v3 8 1.8 GHz 20 MB 55W 1866 MHz E5-2620 v3 6 2.4 GHz 15 MB 85W 1866 MHz E5-2609 v3 6 1.9 GHz 15 MB 85W 1600 MHz E5-2603 v3 6 1.6 GHz 15 MB 85W 1600 MHz E5-2643 v3 6 3.4 GHz 20 MB 135W 2133 MHz E5-2637 v3 4 3.5 GHz 15 MB 135W 2133 MHz E5-2623 v3 4 3.0 GHz 10 MB 105W 1866 MHz 4
PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE LABS X10 XEON PROCESSOR E5-2600 v3 OVERVIEW 22nm Process Technology PCI Express 3.0 40 Lanes Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (2 threads/core) Intel Turbo Boost Technology Up to 18 Cores Integrated Voltage Regulator PCIe3.0 System Agent IMC Core LLC Core LLC Core LLC Core LLC.. Core LLC Core LLC Intel QuickPath Interface Power Management: Per Core P-State (PCPS) Uncore Frequency Scaling (UFS) Energy Efficient Scaling (EFT) Technology: Socket R3 4xDDR-4 Channels 1333, 1600, 1866, 2133 MT/s ~2.5 MB Last Level Cache/Core Up to 45 MB total LLC t Intel AVX 2.0 / Haswell New Instruction (HNI) Intel QuickPath Interface (x2) New Haswell Feature Existing Feature X10 DUAL PROCESSOR MOTHERBOARDS: NEW ENHANCEMENTS AVX 2.0 Legacy AVX 1.0: 256-bit vectors, introduced in Sandy Bridge Haswell New Instructions AVX 2.0: Extends 256-bit vector support for integer vector operations - Expands AVX capabilities beyond technical computing to traditional Enterprise workloads (e.g. database, ERM) 256-bit Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) - Up to ~2x the FLOPS/core vs. prior generation Adds support for Gather, Permutes/Blend, Vector Shifts 2x Cache Bandwidth at L1/L2 to support higher FLOPS Bit Manipulation Instructions: Integer compression/bit manipulation Long Integer New Instructions: Targeting large number arithmetic Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) Extensions to aid multi-threaded scalability issues 5 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
X10 DUAL PROCESSOR MOTHERBOARDS: NEW ENHANCEMENTS THERMAL ENHANCEMENTS Improved Thermal Performance True Side-by-Side CPU placement - Several SKUs will support non-shadowed CPUs - Improved airflow for CPU,, and VRMs - Eliminates CPU Pre-heating (up to 10 C) - Increase Turbo mode performance - Lower fan speeds also improve reliability, reduce power, and lower system acoustics AOC Temperature Monitoring - Thermal monitoring of individual select SMCI PCIe add-on-cards - Remote monitoring via IPMI - Support in SuperDoctor 5 I/O ENHANCEMENTS Flexible, Modular Expansion More Storage Add On-Module (AOM) Support - JBOD, SW RAID, HW RAID Solutions - SuperCap backup option with 10 year lifespan, higher temp extremes, faster charging, green solution (LSI 3108) Onboard Quad port 10Gbase-T option Up to 8 AOC in 2U with multiple FHFL supported by Ultra Server line 6 USB 3.0 ports from C612 PCH 10x higher bandwidth than USB 2.0 80% faster device charging Thunderbolt Support WS boards support add-on card supporting 20 Gbps data transfers and Displayport 1.2 for 4K Ultra HD video 6
LABS X10 DUAL PROCESSOR MOTHERBOARDS: NEW ENHANCEMENTS RELIABILITY & MANAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS Dual Boot Block BIOS Provides ability to still load BIOS if primary bootloader gets corrupted Reduces customer downtime and RMA returns New System Managment Software Tool Features Features X9 X10 Motherboard Health BIOS Provisioning HDD health Restricted to one RAID controller Supports Multiple RAID controllers System Inventory x System Utilization x Add-On-Card Temperature x NVM Express Provides ~2x IOPS and 50% lower latency, fastest storage technology available Direct connection between CPU to NVMe SSD over PCIe bus - Reduces software stack latency Optimized for server caching and high performance storage applications Software Stack NVMe SATA/SAS DDR-4 Up to 35% power savings compared to DDR-3L (2 DPC) Up to 50% at 3 DPC configurations 50% performance boost in bandwidth % Power Standby Current 35% 30% DDR3L DDR3L DDR4 DDR4 7 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
QUATTRO SOLUTIONS BOSTON QUATTRO 2U QUAD-NODE 3.5 SOLUTION 2U Enclosure Featuring 4 x Independent Hotplug Nodes 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slot, 1 x Slot 0 PCI Express for Optional, 1 x 10GbE SFP+ Port 3 x 3.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Optional Hardware RAID & SAS 3 Support, FDR Infiniband BOSTON QUATTRO 4U OCTO-NODE SOLUTION 4U Enclosure Featuring 8 x Independent Hotplug Nodes 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slot, 1 x Micro LP Slot 6 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Optional Hardware RAID & SAS 2 Support, FDR Infiniband 8
LABS BOSTON QUATTRO 2U QUAD-NODE 2.5 SOLUTION 2U Enclosure Featuring 4 x Independent Hotplug Nodes 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slot, 1 x Slot 0 PCI Express for Optional 1 x 10GbE SFP+ Port 6 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Optional Hardware RAID & SAS 3 Support, FDR Infiniband BOSTON VENOM 4U DUAL-NODE GPU SOLUTION 4U Enclosure Featuring 2 x GPU Optimised Independent Hotplug Nodes 6 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 FH FL Double Width Slots, 2 x PCI Express x8 Gen 3 FH HL Slots 8 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Optional SAS 2 Support 9 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
IGLOO STORAGE BOSTON IGLOO 2U 12 BAY STORAGE SOLUTION 2U Enclosure Storage Optimised 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slots, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 LP Slots 12 x 3.5 SAS / S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Hardware RAID BOSTON IGLOO 4U 36 BAY STORAGE SOLUTION 4U Enclosure Storage Optimised 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slots, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 LP Slots 36 x 3.5 SAS / S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Hardware RAID 10
LABS BOSTON IGLOO 4U 24 BAY STORAGE SOLUTION 4U Enclosure Storage Optimised 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 FH FL Slots, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 FH FL Slots 24 x 3.5 SAS / S-ATA Hotplug Drive Bays with Hardware RAID BOSTON IGLOO 4U 72 BAY STORAGE SOLUTION 4U Enclosure Storage Optimised 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slot, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 LP Slots 72 x 3.5 SAS / S-ATA Hotplug Drives with 2 Drives / Tray & Hardware RAID 11 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
VENOM SOLUTIONS 1U Enclosure GPU Optimised BOSTON VENOM 1U TRIPLE GPU SOLUTION 3 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 Double Width Slots, 1 x PCI Express x8 in x16 Gen3 LP Slot 4 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drives with Optional Hardware RAID 2U Enclosure GPU Optimised BOSTON VENOM 2U HEX GPU SOLUTION 6 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 Double Width Slots, 1 x PCI Express x8 in x16 Gen3 LP Slots 10 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drives with Optional SAS 2 Hardware RAID 12
SUPERFLEX BLADE SOLUTIONS LABS Management/Switching BOSTON SUPERFLEX 7U 10 BLADE - 20 NODE SOLUTION 7U Enclosure Featuring 20 Blades 1 x Mezzanine Slot for 10GbE/ FDR Infiniband 56Gbit/s 2 x 2.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drives with Optional Hardware RAID 2x Intel 1GbE Ethernet Ports with optional 10GbE SFP+ or FDR Infiniband 56Gbit/s Redundant Platinum Level Efficiency PSU Hot pluggable management and switching options BOSTON SUPERFLEX 6U 28 NODE SOLUTION 6U Enclosure Featuring 28 Blades - Management/Switching Up to 512GB DDR-4 2133MHz Registered ECC 2 x 2.5 S-ATA 3 Fixed Drives 2x Intel 1GbE Ethernet Ports with optional 10GbE SFP+ Hot pluggable management and switching options 13 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
VALUE SERIES SOLUTIONS BOSTON VALUE 1U SERVER 1U Rackmount 2 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 FH HL 4 x 3.5 S-ATA Hotplug Drives with Optional SAS 3 Hardware RAID Redundant Titanium Level Effficiency PSU 2U Rackmount 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 LP Slots, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 LP Slots BOSTON VALUE 2U 2.5 SERVER 16 x 2.5 S-ATA / SAS Hotplug Drives with SAS 2 Hardware RAID 14
LABS BOSTON VALUE 2U 3.5 SERVER 2U Rackmount 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen 3 Slots, 2 x FH FL, 2 x FH HL, 2 x LP 8 x 3.5 S-ATA / SAS Hotplug Drives with Optional SAS 2 Hardware RAID Redundant Platinum Level Efficiency PSU Tower / 4U Rackmount 1 x PCI Express x16 Gen 3 FH FL Slots, 6 x PCI Express x8 Gen3 FH FL Slots BOSTON VALUE 4U WORKSTATION 8 x 3.5 S-ATA / SAS Hotplug Drives with Optional SAS 2 Hardware RAID Redundant Titanium Level Effficiency PSU 15 +44 (0) 1727 876 100
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