GIGABYTE has added three new storage servers and single socket GPUs to its AMD EPYC product range. The new GPU servers are the 2U G291-Z20 and G221-Z30 and the storage server is the 4U S451-Z30, which uses the full computing power of AMD EPYC with 32 cores, more than 2 TB storage capacity and 128 PCIe lines per socket.
GIGABYTE relies on new EPYC servers
The G291-Z20 and G221-Z30 are fully compatible with AMD’s new Radeon Instinct MI25 GPU, which features 24.6 TFLOPS in FP16 and 12.3 TFLOPS in FP32. The MI25 also has a large BAR (Base Address Register) support for multi-GPU communication.
The G291-Z20 contains up to 8 dual-slot GPGPU cards in a 2U chassis. GIGABYTE points out that the high GPU density enables the G291-Z20 to succeed in HPC applications such as real-time analysis, simulation and scientific modeling software, engineering, visualization, rendering and data mining.
The G221-Z30 supports 2 dual-slot GPGPU cards, but you can also use one of the expansion ports (1 x PCIe x16 FHFL + 1 x PCIe x 8 FHHL slots) for high-speed network cards. The G221-Z30 also combines GPU support with some fairly robust storage capabilities. This makes the server a versatile, flexible and cost-effective HPC solution for research and development applications.
The S451-Z30 has a capacity of 36 3.5-inch drives (24 in the front and 12 in the rear) for approximately 500 TB of storage space. GIGABYTE believes that the server is a perfect “add as you go system” for a software-defined storage cluster. With 2 x 2 x 2 x 2.5 hot-swappable hard disk/SSD bays on the back for operating system boot disks, the S451-Z30 can also be used as a standalone storage device by businesses and small businesses.
GIGABYTE has decided not to include a SAS expansion card in the standard version so that customers can use their own HW or SW RAID card. These are the new GIGABYTE servers that use EPYC chips.