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Intel Launches The Xeon D 2100, Up To 18 Core SoCs
There is no way in hell that you can have 16W fanless system, especially with hard drives and a 1.5U chassis (WD reds and similar "nas optimized" drives heat much less though).
You're better off with a cube-like mini-itx NAS-like case with a back fan, something similar to HP microservers https://www.jpaul.me/2013/06/hp-gen8...date-your-lab/ and use a fan adapter to mount an external 120mm or even 200mm fan on whatever is the mount of that thing, and the fan would be ninja-quiet while still pushing more air through. You can also add a PWM controller to throttle the thing down to reduce noise.
In my builds the main source of noise are the hard drives themselves.
Last edited by starshipeleven; 07 February 2018, 12:30 PM.
I have a question. Why are "enthusiast" consumer processors (like the 7980XE) clocked higher than high-core-count server/workstation processors?
Along with the other reasons others have mentioned, keep in mind a lot of servers tend to run many simple tasks simultaneously, whereas a lot of consumer applications demand a lot of constant and heavy attention. This is why many-core ARM servers got popular - depending on your workload, it's much cheaper and more efficient to run as many independent processes as possible, rather than run them as quickly as possible in a queue.
On a slight side note, with the way things are going, many-core CPUs are much better at multitasking, whereas GPUs are better for parallelization.
Last edited by schmidtbag; 07 February 2018, 12:52 PM.
Along with the other reasons others have mentioned, keep in mind a lot of servers tend to run many simple tasks simultaneously, whereas a lot of consumer applications demand a lot of constant and heavy attention.
webservers are one obvious example of this. Each time there is a new connection from a client it generates a thread for its request.
Silly question: What does "SoC" mean in this context? In the normal embedded world when I see a SoC (system on chip) it generally includes both volatile (i.e. RAM) and non-volatile (e.g. flash) storage as well as a bunch of peripherals needed to do something useful. What does this chip include that makes it a SoC instead of just a CPU?
I have a question. Why are "enthusiast" consumer processors (like the 7980XE) clocked higher than high-core-count server/workstation processors?
Reliability is the primary issue, a consumer machine that fails or has a short lifespan isnt nearly the problem one would have in a room full of servers. Beyond that you need to consider processor density and thermal conditions that will impact max operating speeds. Also consummer machines seldom run at 100% for very long, in fact processor manufactures count on this.
It means the chipset - what used to be north and south bridges to mem and vid - are integrated. Plus GPU it would seem. I guess that constitutes a “system” in this context.
My Rasperry Pi SoC has a separate memory chip and no flash tho.
Then every Intel on the market would be SoC (due to PCI-E, memory controller, GPU).
Or if we consider SoC as that Minix-powered MME...
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