Inspur has announced its G7 server platform fully supports the recently launched 4th-Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Designed for performance, openness, intelligent management, and sustainability, the new line of servers has improved performance by up to 61% and computing performance per unit of power consumption by up to 30% compared to the previous generation of Intel-based servers.
The new server platforms are built around green technology, open-source solutions, precise engineering, and intelligent management. Moreover, Inspur indicates that it has a unique cooling design that reduces energy consumption by up to 30% and includes cloud operation and maintenance for intelligent fault diagnosis with a high accuracy rate of up to 95%.
Green Technology Improves TCO
The G7 servers have the capability to use both cold-plate and full-immersion liquid cooling, and can be configured as a rack-level liquid cooling solution. This allows for a significant decrease in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) without compromising on performance, ease of maintenance, sustainability, or energy efficiency, resulting in a substantial decrease in TCO.
The G7 server platform’s air-cooling system has some pretty unique features that work together to reduce power consumption and improve heat dissipation efficiency. One of these features is the T-shaped radiator, which allows for precise temperature control at a component level. Another is the optimized air outlet channel with temperature monitoring, which ensures that the necessary volume of air is provided according to the workload.
Not only is it unique in design, Inspur claims the G7 server platform offers a significant cost reduction: you can fit two 350W CPUs in a 1U space, resulting in up to 30%+ in energy savings compared to the previous generation. This is a notable accomplishment in terms of design and energy efficiency. Fitting 350W CPUs in a 1U space can be a difficult thing to do, as it usually requires additional cooling and power management solutions to ensure proper function.
In addition, the intelligent control system has the capability to continuously monitor the usage of resources, adapt the operation of each component within a server, provide the necessary power based on workload demands and ultimately optimize the TCO for data centers.
Environmental Impact
Inspur designed their G7 servers with a focus on being green and sustainable in both internal materials and packaging. The electronic components within this device are in compliance with the ROHS standards, free of lead, cadmium, and other toxic metals. Its packaging is made entirely of recyclable materials which decreases the usage of plastic by 30%. If this approach to environmental sustainability was adopted by all servers worldwide, it would result in saving over 94,000 tons of plastic.
Open computing
The G7 server platform features advanced integration with open-source software and open architecture, resulting in improved deployment abilities. It uses open software protocols like OpenBMC (provides system management capabilities across heterogeneous systems and allows for in-depth and flexible customization of services), Redfish (facilitates communication and modular management of servers through defined URLs), and CXL (Compute Express Link).
Additionally, using the DC-SCM (Data Center-Server Component Management) open standard module enhances security management, separates BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) and ROT (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) development from CPU iterations. This helps to accelerate security management chips and CPU updates, ensuring better cross-platform compatibility
Consistent Business Operations
The G7 server platform utilizes various levels of advanced engineering (hardware, firmware, and system design) to help ensure the reliability of business operations. Features include:
- redundancy in BIOS/BMC for secure and efficient firmware updates in data centers
- improved power supply specifications to allow simultaneous activation of the intelligent NIC and processor to address issues with power supplies in bare-metal environments.
Operation and Maintenance Ease of Use
The G7 server platform supports cloud-based operation and maintenance and has an accuracy rate of up to 95% when leveraging online intelligent diagnosis of faults. Its intelligent power consumption management function allows users to dynamically manage the power of stand-alone machines and data centers, claiming an improvement of 15% in energy consumption savings.
For hardware operation and maintenance, the new line of servers uses different colors to indicate hot-swappable components. Moreover, to improve operation and maintenance efficiency, it also has dynamic workload status indicator lights and front-mounted type-C management ports that can connect to mobile devices (i.e., phones and tablets).