14 DAY TRIAL // While it is working on its new and strong consumer processors, Intel is also developing new server hardware for the Xeon series of chips.
Intel may not be famous for its motherboards, but that does not mean it is not part of this IT segment.
In fact, the company was found to be working on this very sort of product.
Intel chose the name of S4600LH for its latest server motherboard, though the codename, Lizard Head Pass, is, one might say, a bit more catchy.
This isn't just any platform either, but one that clearly fits into the high-end category.
After all, not every server board can claim to support up to a full terabyte of random access memory (RAM).
It is thanks to sixteen DIMM slots, three per memory channel, that this high threshold can be reached.
Math-intensive server applications and any other high-performance computing machines are what Intel says would benefit from making use of the creature.
Given the support for 8-core Xeon E5-4600 series Sandy Bridge-EP processors (four at once), this is easy enough to understand.
The platform relies on an Intel C600 "Patsburg" chipset and, thus, boasts eight SCU ports and a pair of SATA 6 Gbps ports.
There is also a PCI Express 3.0 x8 I/O module, plus a pair of PCI Express 3.0 x48 risers.
The latter will hold daughterboards with up to three PCI Express x16 slots each, making up for the lack of standard expansion slots. There are 160 PCIe v3 lanes in total.
Furthermore, KVM and BMT logic are built into the server board, along with dual LAN (virtualization support included).
Video streaming sites that need a server for transcoding wouldn't go wrong by selecting this platform, nor would companies that need something to perform math fast. The appeal further rises when a pair of strong graphics cards and their parallel computing performance are thrown in.