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General Micro Systems Announces Revolutionary Concept in Rugged Server Design: "Total Rack" in Only 2UAFCEA West 2017 - General Micro Systems, Inc. (GMS (News - Alert)) today announced that the S2U "King Cobra" 2U short rack server can replace up to 15U of equivalent server rack functions. This 'total rack' server system is made possible by King Cobra's revolutionary modular and scalable architecture that is a breakthrough in electro-mechanical design. Everything about King Cobra represents a different way of thinking about rackmount server design: each sub-system is optimized for maximum performance, lowest power, highest efficiency thermal profile and modular replacement in the field. Additionally, each subsystem is scalable and upgradable to lower TCO over the installation life. Starting with the field-removable OpenVPX single-board computer (SBC) motherboard-a mainstay in deployed defense systems-dual 18 core Intel (News - Alert)® Xeon® E5-2600v4 CPUs mate with up to 1024GB (1TB) of DD4 DRAM and are supported with a completely PCI Express-based storage subsystem with up to 48TB of NVMe SSDs. The 17-inch deep short rack S2U King Cobra includes a 24 port (22x 1GigE; 2x 10GigE) Ethernet switch subsystem, a hardware or enterprise-class Cisco® intelligent router, two Power Supply Unit (PSU) options with Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), and scalable add-in modules for algorithm coprocessors, sensor interfaces, additional I/O or legacy system interfaces. S2U is a complete system, and on-board removable smart fan trays finely manage airflow and noise using side-mounted inlet/outlets. "This server is not what everyone else is doing. It's a revolutionary concept in server design," said GMS CEO and Chief Architect Ben Sharfi. "We looked at the entire rack, identified the functions most needed in a rugged system-from the server to the switch, and from backup power in our patent-pending APU to the existing system I/O-and designed a 'total rack' into a 2U, 17-inch deep box. It's a future way of thinking about a server solution to the problem." S2U King Cobra has been awarded or has pending a total of 12 patents. "If it wasn't unique," says Sharfi, "the patents wouldn't have been issued. No server company is even close to this technology, nor will be in the near future."
Patented and Designed to be Different, Efficiently The OpenVPX motherboard is designed by GMS and based upon a proven GMS compute-engine design that is well-fielded in defense applications. The Intel® Xeon® CPUs are cooled via a patented version of the company's RuggedCool™ technology; the heatsinks are also custom designed for maximum thermal transfer to the finely managed in-box airflow. Dual hot-swappable fan trays each contain six smart fans which blow air in/out of the system to the side-not the front/rear as in typical servers. The side-facing fans operate based upon real-time cooling needs using input from in-system sensors. The advantage of this system is that it minimizes fan noise to the server environment by keeping the fans at the minimum speed to cool the system.
Buses, Data and RAID The advantage of this architecture is that a hardware RAID controller isn't needed. Instead, Intel's CPUs support RSTe and RST2 software RAID, the next-generation in ultimate performance RAID controllers. The Xeon® E5 v4 CPUs are designed to directly control NVMe drives and there's no performance penalty; in fact, there is a gain by eliminating a separate hardware RAID controller. With 12 drive trays available, S2U supports up to 48TB of SSD storage with performance of well over 20X better than standard SAS/SATA drives. And the trays are dual-use, another unique feature of S2U.
Add-in Capability
1) 4x PCIe x16 card slots This array of add-in I/O options is completely unprecedented in the server industry, and more so in such a compact 2U short rack server. An example of what is possible with this flexible add-in modularity is with GPGPU co-processing. S2U supports up to 24 TFLOPS of arithmetic processing via just two Nvidia® Quadro P6000 processor GPGPU compute engine modules. All totaled, S2U King Cobra can provide up to 25 add-in modules, including the five SAM I/O available on the motherboard and COM switch board. This kind of flexibility exemplifies what makes S2U so unique: thoughtful scalability and unprecedented engineering prowess.
Power, Switch and Router Finally, S2U is designed to be more than a high-performance server with NAS and scalable I/O. There's also a 22-port intelligent managed Layer 2/3 Ethernet switch with POE+ on all ports, plus an additional four 10GigE ports (SBC plus switch). Available Cisco® routers include an Embedded Services Router (ESR), optimized for moderate performance, or Cisco's 1000V™ Series Cloud Services Router (CSR (News - Alert)) that creates a locally hosted, infrastructure-agnostic "single tenant router" capability. Routing is available on all the switch's 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit ports.
The Future Is S2U King Cobra Come See General Micro Systems and the S2U King Cobra at AFCEA West, San Diego, Booth #741 General Micro Systems Is Trusted and Deployed: On the Sea, in the Air and on Land
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