Engineering richer features in a revolutionary platform, Intel has made an incredible jump in processor performance in the business transformation journey. AI and deep learning performance will benefit from the built-in AI acceleration engines, while networking, storage, and analytics leverage other specialized accelerators in the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor. Adding a host of new features to target a wide range of workloads, the new family of Xeon processors will deliver even better CPU performance and performance per watt, and do so on a PCIe 5.0 platform with 2x the prior gen throughput to greatly speed up data movement to and from GPUs and storage. Other new features include High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in the Intel Xeon Max series CPUs and support for Intel Optane Persistent Memory 300 Series. For this new platform, HEXADATA has products ready to get the most out of Xeon CPU-based systems that support fast PCIe Gen5 accelerators and Gen5 NVMe drives, in addition to support for high performant DDR5 memory.
Increase ROI while improving efficiency and performance
Xeon Max CPUs for HPC and memory bound workloads
More tasks can be done simultaneously and faster with dedicated cores
Increased memory throughput and higher DDR5 capacity per DIMM
Increased IO throughput achieving 128GB/s bandwidth in PCIe x16 lanes
Disaggregated compute architecture possible via Compute Express Link
HEXADATA servers are enabled with Automatic Fan Speed Control to achieve the best cooling and power efficiency. Individual fan speeds will be automatically adjusted according to temperature sensors strategically placed in the servers.
To take advantage of the fact that a PSU will run at greater power efficiency with a higher load, HEXADATA has introduced a power management feature called Cold Redundancy for servers with N+1 power supplies. When the total system load falls lower than 40%, the system will automatically place one PSU into standby mode, resulting in a 10% improvement in efficiency.
To prevent server downtime and data loss as a result of loss of AC power, HEXADATA implements SmaRT in all our server platforms. When such an event occurs, the system will throttle while maintaining availability and reducing power load. Capacitors within the power supply can supply power for 10-20ms, which is enough time to transition to a backup power source for continued operation.
SCMP is a HEXADATA patented feature which is deployed in servers with non-fully redundant PSU design. With SCMP, in the event of faulty PSU or overheated system, the system will force the CPU into an ultra-low power mode that reduces the power load, which prevents the system from unexpected shutdown and avoids component damage or data loss.
If the ROM that stores the BMC and BIOS fails to boot, the system will reboot with the backup BMC and/or BIOS replacing the primary. Once the primary BMC is updated, the ROM of the backup BMC will automatically update the backup through synchronization. For the BIOS, it can be updated based on user's choice of firmware version.
