SIE LADON EDGE SERVERS: THE NEW PARADIGM

The HPC industry evolves with the paradigm of EDGE or perimeter or edge servers, also called border servers. "Edge Computing" is a concept of distributed computing that brings computing and data storage closer to the location where it is needed to improve response times and reduce the need for bandwidth, especially in environments where connectivity It is only possible through direct WIFI connection, because cloud connection networks are not available or are of very low quality.

These are servers with special characteristics:

1º They usually have a single processor and a GPU, so their consumption is lower (from 300 W depending on configurations)

2º They are very short servers (less than 46 cm deep and standard 19”, which can be integrated into communication racks or intermediate Data Centers, where data from IoT devices are collected, closer than large servers. Cloud

3º They allow a lower investment (from €2.500 without GPU and €3.500 with GPU), complete configurations

4º They are designed to work in harsher conditions, since they support up to 35º C and both the sources and the fans are redundant and hot-swappable

5º All the disks that they equip are SSD and both these and the communication cards are accessible from the front

SIE Ladon Edge servers offer compact design, high efficiency and flexibility

The environments for which they are intended are:

5G environment

Integration in the development of autonomous cars

Challenge projects such as the one developed by SIE as group leader together with people from the UPV and Nutricontrol, for data collection from IoT devices in greenhouses

Digital signal collection

Live UHD video streaming

We have a range of SIE Ladon Edge products, based on Gigabyte platforms, including:

Platform E251-U70 2U:

Based on an Intel Cascadelake Refresh processor, up to 1 TB of RAM, 6 SATA SSD drives and a dual-slot GPU (available for the entire NVIDIA Ampere professional range)

Platform E162-220 1U:

Based on a new generation Intel ICELake processor, up to 2TB of RAM, 2 x PCI-E 4.0 U.2 nvme SSDs and a dual-slot GPU

Platform H242-Z11 2U:

Double Twin with 4 servers based on AMD Milan up to 240 W and 64 cores, with 1 nvme SSD disk per server and 1 TB of RAM for each of them.

Platform E252-P30 2U:

Very similar to the first in terms of chassis, but with an ARM Ampere® Altra® processor with up to 80 cores, up to 4 TB of RAM (with the new 256 GB modules) and being able to incorporate up to 6 PCI-E 4.0 x16 cards and low profile x8