Cisco has punched up the ability and sustainability options of its Unified Computing System household with new UCS servers based mostly on Intel’s newest era processors.
Intel launched these processors—the 4th Technology Xeon Scalable processors and the Xeon CPU Max Sequence—this week after months of delays. The brand new processors embrace a brand new micro-architecture, as much as 60 cores per chip, plus help for DDR5 reminiscence, PCI Categorical Gen 5, CXL 1.1, HBM2E reminiscence and a of special-purpose accelerators for storage, networking, analytics, AI, and CPU-core load balancing.
Intel additionally added a household of GPUs known as the Knowledge Middle GPU Max Sequence that may be tied along with one another or with new Max CPU processors to dump software or networking features from core server operations.
Based mostly on these processors, Cisco has launched two new high-end X Sequence servers: the four-socket UCS X410c M7 and the two-socket UCS X 210 M7 servers. It’s also introducing much less highly effective C Sequence rack servers, the1U UCS C220 and the 2U UCS C240.
As well as Cisco will incorporate Intel Knowledge Middle GPU Sequence processors in its UCS X-Sequence Material know-how to help compute-intensive workloads, stated Siva Sivakumar, vp of Cisco Compute Product Administration and Options.
“The concepts listed here are to let clients help architectural and software range in a method that doesn’t disrupt their present setting,” Sivakumar stated. “All the new servers and GPUs match into our UCS Material and help present mission-critical enterprise purposes and future memory-intensive purposes, bare-metal, and virtualized workloads.”
Cisco’s server setting is managed and managed by its over-arching Intersight cloud-management system, which helps virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal workloads in addition to Kubernetes container-native virtualization.
The brand new processors are each extra highly effective and extra vitality environment friendly, which interprets into fewer methods doing the identical workload and utilizing much less energy than earlier generations. In some circumstances, which means chopping the variety of methods required by three quarters whereas decreasing energy consumption 31% over present fashions, Sivakumar stated.
Cloud distributors AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure in addition to server distributors Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, and others introduced help for the brand new Intel processors.
Cisco’s new servers will start to roll out this quarter.
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