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ASUS ESC8000 G4 Accelerator Server

Date: Feb, 2018

Karma Group NDA only!!!

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Agenda

Purley Platform Overview

ESC8000 G4 Series Overview Quick Introduction

Scalable Expansion Capability

Diverse GPU support

Optimized Thermal Design

Auto switch topology design

Best Server Management Tools New Function in ASMB 9 – iKVM

ASUS Control Center

Generation Features Flexible Storage –U.2

Advanced I/O - N+1 Flexibility

Advanced I/O - Omni-Path Architecture (OPA)

Advanced I/O - ASUS PIKEII

Smart Thermal Radar Design

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Intel®

C620 SeriesChipset

Intel UPI*DDR4 2666*6 Channels

Intel UPI*

Intel UPI*

48 lanesPCIe x3

DMI3

16 Lanes PCIe x3

LAN

SATA 6Gb/s

USB 3.0

USB 2.0

Core Core

Core Core

Shared Cache

Skylake-SPUp to 28 cores

SPILPC

SMBusAudio

• Socket-P/LGA-3647 • 14nm Skylake Microarchitecture• CPUs up to 28 Cores/ 56 treads• DDR 4 memory up to 2666 MT/s*• Memory capacity up to 1.5 TB*• Intel® Apache Pass supported*• Intel® Virtual RAID (VROC)• Intel® Omni-Path Architecture• Advanced Vector Extensions 512

Skylake-SP

• Supports Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family (Skylake-SP)

CPU Compatibility

* Supports will differ from Intel CPU SKU

INTEL® XEON® PROCESSOR SCALABLE FAMILY PROCESSOR OVERVIEW

Broadwell CPU Skylake CPU

Intel® Xeon®Processor E7 family

Intel® Xeon®Processor E5 family

Intel® Xeon®Processor Scalable

family

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ESC8000 G4 Series Overview

8 x PCI-E Gen3 x16

2 x Standard low profilePCI-E x16 (X16 Gen3 Link)

System cooling fan

8 x 2.5” Hot-SwapHDD Bays

Future Intel® Xeon® Processor Skylake-F family (CPU1/2)

PCI-E x8 (X8 Gen3 Link) for RAID card

Dual Omni-path Fabric

2+1 1600W 80 PLUS Platinum RPSU

2 x M.2 max 22110

2 x NVMe Supported

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Target Market: HPC, Scientific & Research, Render farm, Cloud Gaming

ESC8000 G4 Quick Introduction Beta Sample: 2017 Q3MP: 2017 Dec

• High Density, Hybrid Computing Power

- Supports up to 8 double-deck Server GPUs & Desktop GPUs founders edition in 4U

- Maximum GPU utilizations for demanding computing power

• Flexible SKU transform- PCI-E slots can config by CPU1 or CPU2- PCI-E lanes topology across PLX PCI-E switch can config by SW

• Optimized Thermal Design

- Crossover GPU fan Hot swap placement

• High Speed Transmission

-Support Embedded Omni-Path 100Gbps Fabric

- OCuLink for NVMe

• Scalable Expansion Capability

- 8 * PCI-E Gen3 x16 slots for FH/FL add-on cards

- 2 * PCI-E Gen3 x16 slots for LP/HL add-on cards

- 1 * PCI-E Gen3 x8 slot for Low-profile internal HBA/RAID card

ASUS ESC8000 G4

Form Factor 4U Rack-mount

Expansion Slot

- 8 * PCI-E x 16 Gen3 * PCI-E slots can config by CPU1 or CPU2* PCI-E lanes topology across PLX PCI-E switch can config by SW

- 2 * PCI-E x 16 Gen3 (LP, HL)- 1 * PCI-E x 8 Gen3 (LP, HL) * PIKE II

ProcessorIntel® Xeon® processor Skylake-F product family

Memory 24 x DDR4 2666 RDIMMs

Chipset Intel® C621 Chipset

Networking

2 * I350 LAN + 1 * Mgmt LAN2* Omni-Path Fabric (option)2* InfiniBand EDR/10G kit (option)

HDD Bay 8 * 2.5 Hot-Swap HDD/SSD Bays

PSU2+1 Redundant 1600W 80Plus Platinum Level Power Supply

Dimension 798mm * 439mm * 175.6mm

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PIKE Ⅱ

Omni-Path Fabric *2

DDR4 2666 *24

Skylake-F*2

PEB-10G

PEM-FDR

2.5 inch HDD *8

*8

Double-deck GPU

Ultra-high density solution in 4U system

2 Skylake-F CPUs(up to 205W), 8 double-deck GPUs, 2 Omni-Path,

3 low profile expansion upgrade kits, 8 HDD Bays and 24 DIMMs

Scalable Expansion Capability

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Diverse GPU support

NVIDIA Quadro VCA

Computing

* Nvidia founder edition & ASUS Turbo series mechanical only

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Optimized Thermal Design

air flow

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air flow

air flow

air flow

Dedicated Air Tunnel : Independent smart FAN for each partition of GPU , CPU and DIMM

GPU Partition

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air flow

air flow

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CPU & DIMM Partition

Dedicated Air Tunnel : Independent smart FAN for each partition of GPU , CPU and DIMM

Optimized Thermal Design

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Optimized Thermal Design

Dedicated Air Tunnel : Independent smart FAN for each partition of GPU , CPU and DIMM

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Scenario 1:1 processor control the max. 8 GPUs compute and 1 100Gbps Data transmission in the same loop

X16 Gen3

Auto switch by software tool

ASUS Exclusive Auto Switch Topology Design

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Scenario 2:1 processor control 2 independent PEX with the max. 8 GPUs compute and 2 100Gbps Data transmission

X16 Gen3

X16 Gen3

Auto switch by software tool

ASUS Exclusive Auto Switch Topology Design

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ASUS Exclusive Auto Switch Topology Design

Application 1

Application 2

X16 Gen3

X16 Gen3

X16 Gen3

(Switch with PCIE9 to 2nd PEX)

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Best Server Management Tools

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Red Fish 1.0 HTML 5 Management Security

New IPMI standard equally useable by

APP, GUI, and scripts

Using HTML5 replace JAVA and ActiveX, increasing security

Better and More instruction set make management easily

Using HTTPS to increase Web browser

security

New generation ASMB9-iKVMMake your job easily

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ASMB9-iKVM

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Server Management

H/W Sensor Monitoring S/W Monitoring BIOS Update VM Monitoring Power On/Off Control Power Consumption &

Policy Scalable Clients Structure BMC Integration Remote Control Email Notification Cross-Platform Server S/W Dispatch Metadata Editor Task Scheduler

Security

Disable Registry Editor USB Device Blocking System Watch Dog AD Authentication

User Friendly

Intuitive Dashboard Fast Server Deployment Optimized Mobile Device

Display Live Update Quick Search

ASUS Control Center (2/2)

All that MIS Needs

* Supported features may vary depending on the system models.

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Generation Features

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Port-to-port OCuLink-design provides flexibility for Data Center Attached U.2 SSD quantities depends on customer’s demand Cost & space optimized

Flexible Storage –U.2 (1/2)

Backplane

Support U.2 S S D * 2

OCuLink

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Port-to-port offers faster speed & cost-effective than PCIe Switch IC Maximum Bandwidth--x4 Bandwidth offers faster transit speed High C/P-No need expander on backplane

Flexible Storage – U.2 (2/2)

>3XFASTER

32 Gb/s Port-to-port design

> 10.667 Gb/s PCIe Switch IC solution

Port-to-port design Full bandwidth Flexible scalability for SSD Cost-effective, <US $500

PCIe SwitchShared bandwidthNo FlexibleCostly, >US $1000

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ESC8000 G4

NVMeNumber

Model Name

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ASUS PIKEII Card – 2G Cache Dual cache on card

Read speed faster than 1G cache

HBA Card

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PIKE II 3008-8i

PIKE II 3108-8i/2G

2 xCache

2G SDRAM PIKE II Card – 2G

PIKE II Card – 1G1G SDRAM

RAID Card

Advanced I/O - ASUS PIKEII

PIKE II 3108-8i

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Fast Deploy – Visible Port 80 Visible Port 80 LED

Message LEDLocation LED

HDD LED Front Power Switch with LED

Read status WITHOUT connecting monitors or pulling nodes out

Q-Code/Port 80 LED

B0 = DIMM detection

B7 = Memory training

BF = Memory training finish

19 = SB(Southbridge) initialization

79 = CSM(Compatible Support Mode) initialization

94 = Set PCIE devices order

95 = PCIE devices request resource

96 = Allocate resource to PCIE devices

B2 = Legacy option ROM execution

B4 = USB hotplug

AB = BIOS Setup

00 = Boot to bootable devices

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ASUS Control Center (1/2)

Best IT Management Software

Single Portal, Simplified IT Management The centralized IT management software that provides comprehensive control of

ASUS server, workstation, commercial desktop, notebook, AiO, thin client, and digital signage.

Monitor Hardware and Software, Physical and Virtual Monitors hardware sensors (temperature, fan, voltage) and utilizations (CPU,

memory, HDD, networking) with notification setting Software dispatch and applications monitoring Remote desktop and power control VMware ESXi support (additional license)

Saving Great Resources for Valuable Tasks Task Scheduler handles routine jobs such as power on/off control, software

dispatch, USB control, and scripts.

Enhance Information Security USB storage blocking, watch dog function Account management with AD integration (additional license)

Modern IT, Friendliest User Interface Intuitive dashboard for monitoring IT environment anytime, anywhere (HTML5 UI

for smart devices to access) Fast deployment just in minutes Metadata editor provides flexible asset tags Uninterrupted Live Update

ASUS Control Center

Provide high visibility and best IT management experiences across ASUS enterprise and commercial products

Optimized Mobile Display

ASUS Control Center can provide you with:

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