Stefan Mileschin

With many enterprise platforms developers have various goals for their software, such as high performance, throughput, storage, or tackling the main issue of the day. It’s one thing to write software on one type of machine then deploy it to the datacenter, but it’s another to write code on a similar machine to what it will end up on. Most big server platforms will, in one form or another, have an OEM that will offer the equivalent of a ‘development tower’, enabling users to write code with the hardware at the desk. This time, GIGABYTE has developed an EPYC Tower, for both code development and small/medium enterprise deployments.

The W291-Z00, a name that rolls right off the tongue, is a single socket EPYC platform built around one of GIGABYTE’s motherboards and can fit up to 32 cores, 64 threads, 1 TB of DRAM (eight slots), and four high-powered GPUs. The idea here is that this can be built as a beast if needed, and the chassis uses air baffles to support passive GPUs or accelerators as well. There is the equivalent of nine PCIe slots in the chassis, allowing accelerators larger than dual-slot to be supported even on the lowest PCIe slot. These are powered by dual redundant 1600W 80Plus Platinum-rated power supplies.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13779...-tower-of-epyc