TYAN Boosts Server Speeds with Gen-4 Intel Xeon Processors

TYAN RECENTLY INTRODUCED 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processorbased server platforms highlighting built-in accelerators to improve performance across the fastestgrowing workloads in AI, analytics, cloud, storage, and HPC.

“Greater availability of new technology like 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors continue to drive the changes in the business landscape”, said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s Server Infrastructure Business Unit. “The advances in TYAN’s new portfolio of server platforms with features such as DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and Compute Express Link 1.1 are bringing high levels of compute power within reach from smaller organisations to data centres.”

“4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are designed to accelerate performance across the fastest-growing workloads that businesses depend on today. By optimising the use of CPU core resources, built-in accelerators deliver more efficient utilisation and power efficiency advantages, helping businesses achieve their sustainability goals,” said Suzi Jewett, Intel General Manager, 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platform. Leading-edge HPC systems optimised to accelerate performance

TYAN’s HPC platforms are optimised to accelerate performance for a diverse set of workloads, including High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Analytics. The Thunder HX FT65T-B5652 is a 4U pedestal server built for smaller HPC workloads that need large computing power at the desk-side. The system features a single 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor, eight DDR5 DIMM slots, and four double-wide PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for high performance GPU card deployment. The system accommodates six 3.5-inch SATA, two NVMe U.2 hot-swap tool- less drive bays and an NVMe M.2 port for a high performance boot drive.

The Thunder HX TS75-B7132 and Thunder HX TS75A-B7132 are dual-socket 2U server platforms that support dual 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, 32 DDR5 DIMM slots and five PCIe 5.0 slots that are ideal for high-performance in-memory computing and virtualisation applications. Both platforms provide two 10GbE or GbE onboard LAN, one OCP v3.0 LAN mezzanine slot and two NVMe M.2 ports. The TS75-B7132 provides eight 3.5-inch hot-swap tool-less NVMe/SATA hybrid drive bays; the TS75A-B7132 accommodates ten 2.5-inch SATA and sixteen NVMe U.2 drive bays.

Hybrid storage to provide flexibility with performance

Both the Thunder SX TS70-B7136 and Thunder SX TS70A-B7136 are 2U dual-socket softwaredefined storage servers featuring 16 DDR5 DIMM slots, five PCIe 5.0 slots, one OCP v3.0 LAN mezzanine slot and two NVMe M.2 ports. The TS70-B7136 is designed to provide high capacity storage with twelve 3.5-inch SATA hot-swap tool-less drive bays with support up to four NVMe U.2 devices, and two rear 2.5-inch hot-swap tool-less SATA drive bays

AI-driven Live Video De-noising and Upscaling at 4K

ISIZE, a specialist in deep learning for video delivery, recently released first performance results taking full advantage of the special instructions enabled by Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX), available on the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor. The new Intel architecture means that AI-based video processing like iSIZE BitClear can be performed entirely within the CPU, eliminating the latency, energy and cost overheads of linking to a GPU or other external accelerator.

The volume of video to be processed, delivered and stored continues to grow exponentially. From archive footage and consumer-generated content to surveillance and drone images, much of this material is of limited resolution and marred by noise and distortion. Emergen Research predicts the market for security and surveillance video to grow by 18.7 percent by

2030, and drone cameras to grow at 26 percent over the same period. It has been reported that 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The quality of video from such contexts is often hampered by dirt or rain on external lenses, drone vibration, storage and upload limits and degradation in archive footage. Therefore, to get the best results requires very sophisticated processing. iSIZE BitClear uses unique deep learning techniques to dynamically restore the video to the best possible quality, without affecting the perceptual intent of the content creator. It also permits AI-based video upscaling, allowing devices of limited native resolution to contribute high-resolution streams.

Intel AMX allows the advanced BitClear processing to be handled entirely within 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Measurements with BitClear have shown that 4th Gen Intel Xeon for boot drive deployment. The TS70A-B7136 is optimised to offer high data I/O throughput from twenty 2.5-inch hot-swap tool-less drive bays, including ten SATA, eight NVMe U.2 front drive bays and two rear-access SATA bays. Performance boost designed for cloud workloads

TYAN’s Thunder CX GC68A-B7136 is a 1U dual-socket cloud server that accommodates twelve 2.5-inch drive bays supporting eight NVMe U.2 and four SATA devices. The system provides 16 DDR5 DIMM slots, two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one OCP v3.0 LAN mezzanine slot and two NVMe M.2 ports. The GC68A-B7136 is ideal for high IOPS compute applications in data centres.

The Thunder CX GC79A-B7132 is an all-flash 1U dual-socket cloud server that offers up to twelve 2.5-inch NVMe U.2 drive bays. The system supports 32 DDR5 DIMM slots, two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one OCP v3.0 LAN mezzanine slot and two NVMe M.2 ports. The GC79A-B7132 is well suited for workloads that require high amounts of CPU cores and memory, such as virtualisation and in-memory database applications.

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Scalable processors with Intel AMX deliver up to twice the performance of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This allows for BitClear to achieve real-time performance for denoising up to 1080p and denoising with upscaling for up to 2160p resolution, respectively. This was previously impossible without a specialised GPU or other accelerator hardware.

Sergio Grce, CEO and founder of iSIZE added “AIbased denoising and upscaling of video is wellknown to require heavy use of GPU hardware. This tends to incur additional TCO in comparison to CPU-only execution. We have demonstrated our BitClear solution for AI-based video denoising running in real time on the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, which provides an excellent combination of performance and practicality.”

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