Strictly speaking, x86 servers are close to traditional minicomputers and even surpass minicomputers in terms of RAS characteristics in key business areas. According to the Comparative Report on Unplanned Downtime of Various Server Platforms in the Past 12 Months published by ITIC (Information Technology Information Consulting Company) in 20/4, x86 servers can reach the level of Power servers, surpassing the reliability of other minicomputer platforms such as An Teng and SPARC.
With the increasingly high performance requirements for key business applications in today's enterprises, the corresponding RAS standards are constantly upgrading. If the server that can 100% realize the RAS characteristic of the processor itself is the RAS characteristic of 1.0, then Kunlun 9032 launched by Huawei in March this year is a 32-way minicomputer product based on x86 open architecture. It is worth noting that it is regarded as having RAS 2.0 standard.
RAS 2.0 features possessed by Huawei Kunlun: stability, reliability, extreme performance and open ecology.
Huawei Kunlun open architecture minicomputer
Kunlun open architecture minicomputers include Kunlun 9008, Kunlun 90 16 and Kunlun 9032, which correspond to the configuration specifications of 8-way, 16 and 32-way respectively, among which 9008/90 16 has the ability to vertically expand to 32-way. From the reliability point of view, Huawei's innovative RAS 2.0 technology can provide an active fault analysis engine PFAE, which is the first to support online replacement of core components such as CPU and memory, effectively ensuring business continuity.
Specifically, in order to achieve 100% Intel? The operation affirms the RAS characteristics, and Huawei uses the underlying chips (including on-board management chip BMC, storage control chip, etc.). ) to the operating system (Huawei Euler? OS) all consider reliability design. (Its self-developed BMC and BIOS can find and handle faults before the operating system by virtue of firmware priority mode. Through this technology, 60% failures that may cause the operating system to shut down can be shielded; On the storage control chip, Huawei adopted a self-developed balanced read-write wear algorithm, which can effectively avoid the premature end of storage device life and data loss caused by high-frequency unbalanced read-write of storage particles, and realize the data reliability of five 9s. ) Is there an official source for this passage? Please confirm.
In terms of extreme performance, the innovative NC interconnection chip realizes the high-speed interconnection of 32 CPUs, and provides physical and logical partition functions to meet the flexible needs of business. At the same time, in terms of open ecology, Huawei and the world's top partners have built an open and perfect industrial chain, providing end-to-end solutions, effectively improving the economic benefits of key businesses and increasing the return on IT investment.
In addition, Huawei's innovative RAS2.0 provides the highest level of reliability; Firmware-level fault response and diagnosis mechanism can collect and analyze fault information comprehensively and automatically, and realize active early warning, isolation and replacement of fault components; And take the lead in supporting online maintenance of CPU and memory; In addition, the self-developed BMC management chip can make Kunlun's unexpected downtime not exceed three minutes throughout the year.
Open architecture will be the main substitute of traditional RISC+Unix architecture.
Facing the open environment, the traditional RISC+Unix architecture is changing, and x86 server will undoubtedly become the most important substitute product. For Huawei Kunlun, it is mainly suitable for traditional database applications, memory computing, HPC fat nodes and large-scale virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Compared with the traditional closed-architecture minicomputer, TCO savings can reach more than 30%.
To put it simply, Huawei Kunlun organically integrates the open x86 ecology with the high reliability, high performance and high scalability required by the critical business environment, and adopts Huawei's innovative CPU high-speed interconnection and RAS2.0 reliability enhancement technology to provide the highest level RAS characteristics of an open computing platform, as well as stand-alone computing resources of up to 576 cores and 768 DDR4DIMMs, with a vertical expansion coefficient as high as 1.97, which truly meets the standard characteristics of RAS2.0.
What we expect more is that when most critical business servers are still in the stage of RAS 1.0, RAS 2.0 will surely become a sharp weapon for x86 architecture critical business servers to compete with traditional minicomputers in the market. I believe that in the near future, we will see more manufacturers' minicomputers based on x86 architecture. In this regard, Huawei is undoubtedly leading.