14 DAY TRIAL // Over the years Tyan has accustomed us with their high-performance custom designed servers and the company looks ready to push the envelope once more as it just announced the FM65-B5511 Micro Server, which packs no less than 18 compute nodes in a 4U rack mount enclosure.
This so-called micro server was built especially for applications such as dedicated webhosting or other tasks that require single-processor nodes with high density and a low power consumption, a market segment that Intel expects to account for about 10% of its total shipments over the next 4 to 5 years.
Each of the 18 nodes will be powered by Intel's next-generation Xeon processors (one per node), that are based on the Sandy Bridge architecture.
These are expected to pack two or four processing cores and, as Intel has revealed yesterday, their TDP will start at 15W.
In addition to the Xeon CPU, each of the nodes can support up to 32 GB of un-buffered ECC DDR3 memory, two 2.5-inch SSD or HDD drives and come with two 1Gigabit network ports as well as with IPMI 2.0 support for out-of-band and remote management.
Power is provided by redundant (2+1) hot-swap PSUs and Tyan's micro server also packs a 1Gigabit or 10Gigabit switch module.
“The FM65-B5511 is the first of cost-sensitive, higher density servers that support the next-generation Intel Xeon processor,” said Albert Mu, vice president of Tyan Business Unit of MiTAC International Corporation. .
“In 2011, Tyan will provide a new family of high-density “Yellow River” servers that are based on the Micro Module Server Specification.”
According to Tyan, the FM65-B5511 Micro Server will be available through the company's worldwide distributor network in late Q2 2011 while pricing will be established upon request.