CN218630661U

CN218630661U - 4U server supporting 8GPU modules

Info

Publication number: CN218630661U
Application number: CN202222606987.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曾王武
Original assignee: Three Gorges Star Future Data Technology Yichang Co ltd
Current assignee: Three Gorges Star Future Data Technology Yichang Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-09-30
Filing date: 2022-09-30
Publication date: 2023-03-14
Anticipated expiration: 2032-09-30

Abstract

The application discloses a 4U server supporting 8GPU modules, which comprises a case main body; the front part of the case main body is provided with a fan heat dissipation module, the fan heat dissipation module is fixedly connected with the case main body through bolts, an ATX main board is arranged in the middle of an inner cavity of the case main body and fixedly connected with the case main body, a PCIe adapter board is arranged on the rear side of the ATX main board and fixedly connected with the case main body; the computer case is characterized in that a GPU module is installed above the PCIe adapter plate, a CRPS power module is installed at the rear part of the case body, and a rear panel PCIe expansion slot position is arranged on one side of the PCIe adapter plate. The PCIe adapter board is arranged above the mainboard, so that the space occupied by the IO interface and the power interface of the mainboard is avoided, and the width of the upper 4U case can be fully utilized, so that more PCIe slots can be arranged; the PCIe adapter board is bridged to the mainboard through Slimline and is responsible for communication of the GPU module on the mainboard CPU.

Description

Support 4U server of 8GPU modules

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of servers, in particular to a 4U server supporting 8GPU modules.

Background

A server, also called a server, is a device that provides computing services, and since the server needs to respond to and process a service request, the server generally has the capability of bearing and guaranteeing the services; the server is generally divided into a file server (enabling a user to access files in other computers), a database server, an application server, a WEB server, and the like, the server includes a processor, a hard disk, a memory, a system bus, and the like, and compared with a general computer architecture, the server has higher requirements on processing capacity, stability, reliability, security, expandability, manageability, and the like, and is a high-performance computer and a core device required by cloud computing technology to provide computing services and data services.

Modern applications have higher and higher requirements on the graphic processing capacity and the high-performance computing capacity of a server computer, a single server node is required to accommodate more GPU modules, a rack server is limited by the space limitation of 4U, and no enough slots are provided for accommodating 8 display cards under an ATX structure; the GPU modules of the existing multi-card type are densely arranged, the heat is concentrated, and the heat dissipation pressure is large; most of the current 4U rack servers adopt customized motherboards, so that the flexibility of hardware configuration is not high. Therefore, a 4U server supporting 8GPU modules is proposed to address the above problem.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the application is to provide a 4U server that supports 8GPU modules, possess the advantage of 8GPU modules, solved the big problem of current many cards type GPU module radiating pressure.

A4U server supporting 8GPU modules comprises a case main body;

the front part of the case main body is provided with a fan heat dissipation module, the fan heat dissipation module is fixedly connected with the case main body through bolts, an ATX main board is arranged in the middle of an inner cavity of the case main body and fixedly connected with the case main body, a PCIe adapter board is arranged on the rear side of the ATX main board and fixedly connected with the case main body; the computer case is characterized in that a GPU module is installed above the PCIe adapter plate, a CRPS power module is installed at the rear part of the case body, and a rear panel PCIe expansion slot position is arranged on one side of the PCIe adapter plate.

Further, the chassis main body is of a cuboid structure, the fan heat dissipation module is composed of 8 fan wind walls, and the whole wind channel of the chassis main body is composed of 8 8038 fans arranged in 4 rows at the front end.

Furthermore, 8GPU modules are installed on the case main body, the PCIe adapter plate is arranged at the rear part of the case, and the 8GPU modules are installed on the PCIe adapter plate.

Furthermore, the PCIe adapter plate is installed at the rear part of the case main body and is close to the IO baffle plate at the back part of the case main body and above the power supply module.

Furthermore, the rear end of the case main body is provided with 4 parallel horizontal CRPS power modules.

Furthermore, the rear panel PCIe expansion slot position can be provided with an auxiliary exhaust fan outside the case.

According to the embodiment of the application, the PCIe adapter board is arranged above the mainboard, so that the space occupied by the IO interface and the power interface of the mainboard is avoided, and the width of the upper 4U case can be fully utilized so as to arrange more PCIe slots; the PCIe adapter board is bridged to the mainboard through Slimline and is responsible for the communication of the GPU module on the mainboard CPU; in the layout, the CRPS power supplies are horizontally arranged side by side and are arranged below the rear panel of the chassis together with the IO interface of the mainboard, and the PCIe slot positions are concentrated on the upper layer of the rear panel of the chassis; the layout of the rear panel is improved, the area of the air outlet is increased, and waste heat generated by the server can be discharged more efficiently.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of a 4U8GPU server according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a rear panel structure of a 4U8GPU server chassis according to an embodiment of the present application.

In the figure: 10. a cabinet main body; 20. a fan heat dissipation module; 30. a main board; 40. a PCIe interposer; 50. a GPU module; 60. a CRPS power module; 70. the backplane PCIe expansion slot.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without making any creative effort shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the accompanying drawings are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

In the present application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate an orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the present application and its embodiments, and are not used to limit the indicated devices, elements or components to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.

Moreover, some of the above terms may be used in other meanings besides orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "upper" may also be used in some cases to indicate a certain attaching or connecting relationship. The specific meaning of these terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as the case may be.

Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as the case may be.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1-2, a 4U server supporting 8GPU modules includes a main housing 10;

the front part of the case main body 10 is provided with a fan heat dissipation module 20, the fan heat dissipation module 20 is fixedly connected with the case main body 10 through bolts, an ATX main board 30 is arranged in the middle of an inner cavity of the case main body 10, the ATX main board 30 is fixedly connected with the case main body 10, a PCIe adapter board 40 is arranged on the rear side of the ATX main board 30, and the PCIe adapter board 40 is fixedly connected with the case main body 10; the computer case is characterized in that a GPU module 50 is installed above the PCIe patch board 40, a CRPS power supply module 60 is installed at the rear part of the case body 10, and a rear panel PCIe expansion slot position 70 is arranged on one side of the PCIe patch board 40.

The case body 10 is of a cuboid structure, the fan heat dissipation module 20 is composed of 8 fan air walls, and the whole air channel of the case body 10 is composed of 2 rows and 4 rows of 8 8038 fans at the front end; the fan heat dissipation module 20 is installed at the front end of the chassis main body 10, and the design of the position of the fan heat dissipation module replaces a hot plug hard disk module arranged in a traditional 4U rack server, so that the fan heat dissipation module 20 can obtain more heat dissipation air flows so as to deal with heat dissipation pressure brought by 8GPU modules; the case main body 10 is provided with 8GPU modules 50, the PCIe adapter board 40 is disposed at the rear of the case, and the 8GPU modules 50 are mounted on the PCIe adapter board 40; the PCIe adapter plate 40 is installed at the rear part of the case main body 10 and is close to an IO baffle plate at the back part of the case main body 10 and above the power supply module; the rear end of the case main body 10 is provided with 4 horizontal CRPS power modules 60 which are arranged in parallel; the rear panel PCIe expansion slot position 70 can be provided with an auxiliary exhaust fan outside the case, so that a better heat dissipation effect can be realized, the working temperature of heating elements in the case can be reduced, and a better working environment can be realized.

When the application is used, the mainboard 30 is firstly installed in the middle of the case main body 10, so that the installation space of the PCIe expansion card of the traditional 4U frame server can be completely concentrated at the rear part of the case main body 10, and the installation mode of the GPU module 50 under the traditional ATX layout is decoupled by switching the PCIe link of the mainboard to the PCIe switching board 40, so that the PCIe link export of the mainboard 30 can be not limited by the width of the GPU module 50 by the switching mode, the PCIe channel number provided by the mainboard 30 is fully utilized, and the flexibility of hardware configuration is improved;

then, a PCIe adapter plate 40 is installed at the rear part of the chassis main body 10, PCIe links of the PCIe adapter plate pass through 16 Slim line cables, and each Slim line cable has PCIe x8 bandwidth and is respectively connected with a PCIe slot of the mainboard; each interface 75W required by 10 PCIe interfaces on the PCIe patch panel 40 is powered by a power supply 6Pin interface on the PCIe patch panel 40 to connect with a power supply module; the GPU module 50 is mounted above the PCIe interposer 40, plugged into a PCIe slot on the PCIe interposer 40;

the CRPS redundant power supply module 60 is horizontally arranged at the rear part of the case main body 10 in a tiled mode, and the ATX layout of the traditional 4U rack-mounted server is innovatively rearranged below the PCIe adapter plate 40, so that the layout of the PCIe expansion slot position 70 of the rear panel led out by the PCIe adapter plate 40 forms a regular strip-shaped rectangular area, more auxiliary exhaust fans outside the case main body 10 can be installed at the regular rectangular area, and the heat dissipation requirement of the case main body can be met under the condition of adopting the GPU module 50 with higher heat generation.

The application has the advantages that:

1. according to the PCIe patch board, the PCIe patch board is arranged above the mainboard, so that the space occupied by an IO interface and a power interface of the mainboard is avoided, and the width of the upper 4U case can be fully utilized so as to arrange more PCIe slots; the PCIe adapter board is bridged to the mainboard through Slimline and is responsible for communication of the GPU module on a mainboard CPU; in the layout, the CRPS power supplies are horizontally arranged side by side and are arranged below the rear panel of the case together with the IO interface of the mainboard, and the PCIe slots are concentrated on the upper layer of the rear panel of the case; the layout of the rear panel is improved, the area of the air outlet is increased, and waste heat generated by the server can be discharged more efficiently;

2. due to the change of the layout of the rear panel of the case, the main air outlet is extended into a regular strip rectangle, so that more auxiliary air exhaust fans can be conveniently accommodated, and the service heat dissipation efficiency is enhanced; the wind wall arranged in the case can adopt a small-caliber wind pressure fan, so that the coverage rate of the air channel in the case to the heating element is higher, the air flow and the wind pressure in the radiator of the GPU module are not attenuated too much, and the heat dissipation efficiency of the heating element under high-density layout is guaranteed.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A4U server supporting 8GPU modules, comprising: comprises a case body (10);

a fan heat dissipation module (20) is arranged at the front part of the case main body (10), the fan heat dissipation module (20) is fixedly connected with the case main body (10) through bolts, an ATX main board (30) is arranged in the middle of an inner cavity of the case main body (10), the ATX main board (30) is fixedly connected with the case main body (10), a PCIe adapter board (40) is arranged on the rear side of the ATX main board (30), and the PCIe adapter board (40) is fixedly connected with the case main body (10); the chassis is characterized in that a GPU module (50) is installed above the PCIe patch board (40), a CRPS power module (60) is installed at the rear part of the chassis main body (10), and a rear panel PCIe expansion slot position (70) is arranged on one side of the PCIe patch board (40).

2. A 4U server supporting 8GPU modules according to claim 1, wherein:

the case body (10) is of a cuboid structure, the fan heat dissipation module (20) is composed of 8 fan air walls, and the whole air channel of the case body (10) is composed of 8 8038 fans which are arranged in 4 rows at the front end of the case body (10).

3. The 4U server supporting 8GPU modules as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

8GPU modules (50) are installed on the case main body (10), the PCIe patch board (40) is arranged at the rear part of the case, and the 8GPU modules (50) are installed on the PCIe patch board (40).

4. The 4U server supporting 8GPU modules as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the PCIe adapter plate (40) is arranged at the rear part of the case main body (10) and is close to an IO baffle at the back part of the case main body (10) and above the power supply module.

5. A 4U server supporting 8GPU modules according to claim 1, wherein:

the rear end of the case main body (10) is provided with 4 parallel-arranged horizontal CRPS power modules (60).

6. The 4U server supporting 8GPU modules as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the rear panel PCIe expansion slot position (70) can be provided with an auxiliary exhaust fan outside the case.