Some of the superior issues about AMD EPYC Bergamo is the core rely. We now have as much as 128 Zen 4c cores / 256 threads in a single socket. Which means the Supermicro AS-2015HS-TNR that we’re reviewing in the present day can consolidate between two and 4 dual-socket 2020-era Intel Xeon servers right into a single-socket 2U server. In our overview, we’re going to have a look at the server that makes this doable.
Supermicro AS-2015HS-TNR Exterior {Hardware} Overview
On the entrance of the server, we get twelve 3.5″ bays with orange tabs.
These orange tabs imply that now we have an choice for both including 3.5″ onerous drives or 2.5″ SSDs. We’ll shortly be aware that solely the three.5″ drives are tool-less for set up.
Here’s a have a look at a Micron NVMe SSD within the bigger 3.5″ drive tray.
One thing that’s completely different with this technology in comparison with earlier generations is the backplane. Trying on the storage backplane we will see not solely the drive connectors however a PCB the place a lot of it has been eliminated for airflow functions. In the event you look between the fan blades, you possibly can really see all over to the rear of the chassis pretty simply. New servers concentrate on airflow, and this can be a good instance.
Shifting to the rear, we get a Supermicro extremely configuration. The brand new servers have two energy provides. There are two USB ports and a VGA port for native administration. Then there’s an out-of-band administration NIC for IPMI/Redfish entry. Except for that, the remainder is devoted to airflow and growth.
Right here is among the two 1.2kW 80Plus Titanium energy provides within the system.
Exhibiting the airflow a bit extra within the server, here’s a look down the ability provide slots. We will clearly see the midplane followers and PSU followers are supposed to maintain airflow over the comparatively lower-power DDR5 DIMM slots.
Since there isn’t a onboard networking, now we have the Supermicro AOC-S100G-b2C community card. It is a Broadcom BCM57508-based 100GbE community adapter. Supermicro has different 100GbE adapters together with the Intel-based AOC-S100GC-i2C 100GbE in addition to different choices.
Each the riser above the ability provides and the one in the course of the chassis are very related. They’re additionally cabled risers so that they not slot into the motherboard.
The ultimate four-slot riser has the identical high two slots, however then the underside a part of the riser is slotted into the motherboard on a separate riser PCB. Our instance has a PCIe Gen5 x16 double-width slot out there for GPUs, FPGAs, or different accelerators, however there are different choices.
Subsequent, allow us to get contained in the system to see how that appears.
