The California-based server manufacturer Supermicro has unveiled earlier this year 100 new servers and motherboards which are based on the “Sandy Bridge” Xeon E5-2600 new processor from Intel, and also on the 1600. Also, Supermicro has issued a new server format, “FatTwin”, with lower power consumption and cooling costs. The announcements were synchronized with Intel’s official release of the “Sandy Bridge” Xeon E5 processors.
The new product line of Supermicro Server includes innovative rack mount servers, “Twin” servers with 2 dual-socket servers in one 1U chassis, and models with 4 or 6 GPUs for high performance computing. The new “MicroCloud” server completes the line. The releases feature up to 8 processor sockets. As all the items were perfectly reading for shipping starting with day 1, customers could thus make their orders very fast.
The “FatTwin” servers launched in April builds on the existing “Twin” series and were designed for running in data centers using ambient air and not air conditioning. Also, they are certified to run in environments where temperatures can go as high as 47 degrees Celsius or 117 degrees Fahrenheit. This represented the first commitment of the kind, as Supermicro president and CEO affirmed.
8 uniprocessor nodes are featured in the 3U chassis of the new “MicroCloud” servers. These support processors that consume up to 105W of power. Other servers of this density support only 10W Atom processors and others up to 60W. The secret of Supermicro is the airflow optimization expertise. Each node of the “MicroCloud” server supports 2 hot-swap hard drives of 3.5 inches and a PCIe slot.
Many of the new server models feature a new power supply which is fully digital and runs at 95% efficiency with any workload, with a drop in efficiency only at 10% load. The prices for these new power supplies are just with 3 to 5% higher than the traditional ones. Supermicro supports its new server models also by having updated the networking blades. The company has previously unveiled its top-of-rack switches and the 10Gb Ethernet blade, followed by the model that features Fibre Channel over Ethernet or FCoE.
Additionally, Supermicro has introduced a new rack service for its partners, this one being similar to the service that is currently offered to the company’s largest direct clients. Besides, customers no longer have to spend time buying and installing the various cables and accessories. The company can pre-install the server, the networking and the storage in the rack, as it was announced. This option for customers is new to the channel. Solution providers may also be helped by adding the applications along with the operating systems. Customers will then be able to log in remotely so they can test the systems before these are shipped to them.
These have been the most important novelties from Supermicro in the March-April announcements of 2012. Supermicro advances superior product design and bases its production on rough quality control to create reliable servers that work in critical conditions. The company is also well known for its motherboards and chassis lines.
Author’s bio: Alexandria Gaskarth is a regular writer and she writes on various topics. She has done an in-depth research on the new models of Supermicro Server while writing this post.
