No. 195 Newsletter
HPC / GPGPU Motherboards
Dear Friends,
This month we are taking a look at three best-in-class motherboards for HPC/GPGPU applications – The Tomcat HX S8030, Tempest HX S7100, and Tempest HX S7105. They are designed for use in industry standard chassis and are widely adopted in worldwide HPC/GPGPU projects.
This month we are taking a look at three best-in-class motherboards for HPC/GPGPU applications – The Tomcat HX S8030, Tempest HX S7100, and Tempest HX S7105. They are designed for use in industry standard chassis and are widely adopted in worldwide HPC/GPGPU projects.
| Tomcat HX S8030 | Tempest HX S7100 | Tempest HX S7105 | |
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| Supported CPU | (1) AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series | (2) 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Series | (2) 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Series |
| Form Factor | ATX (12" x 9.8") | SSI EEB (12.2" x 13.04") | Proprietary (14.2" x 13.2") |
| Memory | (8) DDR4-3200 RDIMM/LRDIMM | (6+6) DDR4-2933 RDIMM/LRDIMM | (6+6) DDR4-2933 RDIMM/LRDIMM |
| PCIe Slots | (5) PCIe Gen.4 x16 | (4) PCIe Gen.3 x16 + (3) PCIe Gen.3 x8 | (6) PCIe Gen.3 x16 |
| Networking | (2) 10GbE + (2) GbE + (1) IPMI GbE | (2) GbE (1 shared w/ IPMI) | (2) 10GbE + (1) IPMI GbE |
| Storage | (14) SATA + (2) NVMe M.2 | (14) SATA + (2) NVMe M.2 | (10) SATA + (2) NVMe M.2 |
Tomcat HX S8030
Single-Socket AMD EPYC™ board for deskside server/workstation deployment in ATX form factor
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[Press Review]:
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Tempest HX S7100
Dual-Socket Intel® Xeon® Scalable board for server/workstation deployment in SSI EEB form factor
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Tempest HX S7105
Dual-Socket Intel® Xeon® Scalable board for HPC applications with max. 5 double-wide GPU cards deployment
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