Tyan's approach to the server space is traditionally different than Supermicro's. It used to sell its motherboards on their own. Recently, though, the company started seeing demand for enclosures designed specifically for its motherboards, and it now has a chassis line-up, too. Tyan sent along its S7053 motherboard and KGN70M1 2U chassis in a barebones package called the GN70-K7053.
The front of the Tyan KGN70M1 chassis presents few surprises. There are eight 3.5" hot-swap drive bays that feel solidly-built. The top-right bay is used to house an optical drive, and you'll find a standard assortment of USB ports and LED indicator lights.
It's pretty apparent, given the copious ventilation up front, that Tyan is looking to keep lots of air moving through its case. And if you're wondering, the eight-bay configuration is also fairly common, since most storage controllers feature port counts in multiples of four. And once you go over eight, you're typically looking at an add-in SAS expander on a RAID card or HBA.
Tyan's drive assembly warrants attention, too. The company provides an insert in its 3.5" tray that lets you install a 2.5" disk or SSD in the hot-swap bays.
Tyan employs a fairly standard 2U layout with the ability to not only support ATX and EATX form factors, but also EEB- and CEB-based motherboards as well.
The middle of the chassis accommodates two rows of four hot-swap fans. The dual-row design gives Tyan the flexibility to deliver redundant cooling in the event a fan fails during operation. As you can see, each fan has a small carrier that enables simple hot-pluggable installation. A failed fan causes the chassis to trigger an alarm, and a small LED indicator goes red when a fan fails or is removed. Since each fan uses just over 16 W at full speed, Tyan equipped our sample with a single row of fans.
To the right of the mid-plane fans, Tyan uses a special distribution board. Power from the redundant PSUs is routed through the board's PCB and off to fans, drives, and the motherboard itself.
As mentioned, the KGN70M1 includes dual redundant power supplies in a side-by-side configuration. The two power supplies are 770 W 80 PLUS Gold-rated units that can be pulled out by releasing the orange lever and pulling on the black handle. Tyan does employ ducting, and it uses the space above the power supplies for chassis exhaust.
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I agree. Just reduce it a little bit but don't make it too hard to see
Usually? The E5s absolutely crush AMD's best offerings. AMD's top of the line server chips are about equal in performance to Intel's last generation of chips, which are now more than two years old. It's even more lopsided than Sandy Bridge vs. Bulldozer.
As an AMD fan, I wish we could. But while Magny-Cours was competitive with the last gen Xeons, AMD doesn't really have anything that stacks up against the E5. In pretty much every workload, E5 dominates the 62xx or the 61xx series by 30-50%. The E5 is even price competitive at this point.
We'll just have to see how Piledriver does.
Having said that I would suggest you include expected PPD for the given TPF since that is what folders look at when deciding on hardware. Or you could just devote 48 hours from each machine to generate actual results for F@H and donate those points to your F@H team (yes Tom's has a team [40051] and visibility is our biggest problem).
The issue is that other tech sites promote their teams. We do not have a promotive site. Even while mentioning F@H, some people do not agree with it or will never want to participate. It is a mentality. However, it is a choice!
F@H on such a monster? Do the math and you'll see that just after one year of 24/7 operation you would rack up over 3 billion points, putting you in the top 10 for teams and no.1 spot for single user.
That's assuming, of course, that you've forked out $20k for your monthly power bill to run that fully-stocked 42U rack and paid $240k to your utility company for the entire year. Then there's the cost of the hardware itself - around $26k for each 2U server, or around a cool $600,000.
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all powerful server are expensive now.
I believe market for cheap but powerful server are big, and no one is working on this area.
I know the profit is not big, but by big quantity it mean big money too
The point is that memory is directly connected to 1 CPU only. Adding a 2nd CPU doubles aggregate bandwidth, but could actually hurt performance, if the software isn't written to carefully to localize data and manage affinity between threads & CPUs.
great work.
That is something that we are looking at. This was more of a look at what is out there for barebones kits. I totally agree that these types of comparisons would be great.
That is already done (but as more of a work around) build a standard PC.
Many high end gaming motherboards work well in a server environment, and can easily handle a high traffic website.
Most web hosting does not need a super powerful server (which is why virtualization is so popular). If you are running a relatively small business and are not doing anything that is hugely CPU bound (eg, rendering) then you can save a bit of money with a decent desktop PC.