CN100541387C - A kind of server system based on the Opteron processor - Google Patents
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The present invention is applicable to computer realm, a kind of server system based on the Opteron processor is provided, described server system comprises polylith processor plate and polylith IO plate, described processor plate and IO plate are inserted respectively on the pickup groove position of described server system, connect through backboard by the HT interface between described processor plate and the IO plate, connect by the cHT interface between the described processor plate.The present invention realizes a Glueless server system based on AMD Opteron processor by the mode of polylith processor plate and IO plate, user's configuration mode is more flexible, veneer is removed and is easy for installation, Equipment Management Function is abundanter, can form a big server cluster system with other server systems easily, can increase simultaneously the fault isolation degree between system module, improve the upgrade function of system modular.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to computer realm, relate in particular to a kind of seamless service device system that realizes based on blade server system, employing Opteron processor.
Background technology
The core technology of high-performance server is high-end processor chips, HP, IBM and SUN three companies all provide high-end processor chips at present, for example Hewlett-Packard Corporation has also developed the processor chips of Itanium 2 series simultaneously cooperatively with Intel Company except the 64 bit processor chips that PA-RISC series is provided, IBM Corporation provides 64 bit processor chips of Power series, and SUN company then has 64 bit processor chips of UltraSPARC series.
Along with the Itanium of Intel Company and the processor of Xeon series and the Opteron processor of AMD enter the high-end server field, a lot of new server apparatus suppliers make up the multiprocessor servers platform by the processor that adopts Intel or AMD, it and all approaches gradually on application flexibility and opening or surpasses traditional RISC server not only on performance.
At present the server system more than 4 road or 4 tunnel that makes up based on Intel processor can be provided by many companies, for example 32 tunnel the ES7000 system that provides of 32 tunnel xSeries 445 systems that provide of Hewlett-Packard Corporation 8 tunnel Proliant DL740/DL760 system, the IBM Corporation that provide and Unisys company.
Because the bridge sheet that interconnects between the Opteron processor of AMD is fewer, so then fewer based on the server system more than 4 road or 4 tunnel of AMD processor structure.The Opteron server more than 4 tunnel that is provided at present mainly is seamless (Glueless) server system, promptly adopts the direct channel between the Opteron processor to realize interconnected servers system between the processor.Owing to be subjected to the restriction of the present specification of Opteron processor, the maximum configured of this Glueless system when adopting monokaryon Opteron processor is 8 road server systems.Certainly, along with the release of Opteron processor subsequent product, the maximum configured of the Glueless system of support can be expanded to some extent.
Fig. 1 is the structure based on the H8501 system of the 8-socket Glueless of Opteron processor that Iwill company releases, and the system that other producer releases is still all similar on specification in system architecture.H8501 has mainly adopted the structure of double-deck mainboard, 5U rack on system architecture.Total system mainly comprises two mainboards (Main Board), is used to provide CPU module, internal memory and the IO module of system.Every mainboard provides four processor sockets (CPU Socket), and each processor socket externally connects 2 memory modules, and 4 DIMM (Dual-Inline-Memory-Modules, dual inline type memory module) bar is arranged in each memory modules.The total system maximum provides the memory modules of 32 DIMM bars.Interconnect through mezzanine by special HTX Pro connector between two mainboards.Power module that system is required and blower module directly provide on the 5U cabinet.
As from the foregoing, mainly there is following shortcoming in existing Glueless server system based on the Opteron server:
(1) very flexible of system configuration, total system is made up of two mainboards, so system in fact only supports two types configuration mode 4-socket system and 8-socket system.
(2) installability of system is poor, and two mainboards directly are fixed in the cabinet, is unfavorable for installing and changing.
(3) Equipment Management Function that provides of system is poor, and two mainboards in the system provide BMC (BoardManagement Controller, single board management controller) plug-in card.The BMC card externally provides IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface, IPMI) interface, by the outer device management module of IPMI interface connecting system.Therefore system will provide good equipment control, also needs additionally to increase a device management module again and realizes.
(4) inconvenient server system with other is formed a server cluster, system also needs to be connected to a special ethernet switching device by the Ethernet interface that system board provides and realizes if form the server set group time with other server system by modes such as Ethernets.
(5) system lacks good modular design, and integrated hardware cell too much is unfavorable for that system carries out modular upgrading, also is unfavorable for system maintenance on a mainboard.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to solve existing poor based on the server system of Opteron processor aspects such as Equipment Management Function poor at the installability of configuration flexibility, system, that system provides, inconvenient server system with other forms a server cluster and system lacks good modular design, is unfavorable for that system carries out problems such as modular upgrading and system maintenance.
In order to realize goal of the invention, the invention provides a kind of server system based on the Opteron processor, described server system comprises polylith processor plate and polylith IO plate, described processor plate and IO plate are inserted respectively on the pickup groove position of described server system, wherein, connect through backboard by the HT interface between processor plate and the IO plate, connect by the cHT interface between the processor plate, processor plate is connected by processor socket with the Opteron processor.
Every described processor plate comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and the HT interface externally is provided; And
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface.
Described polylith IO plate comprises at least:
A plurality of IO bridge sheets; And
A plurality of IO controllers, wherein, the IO controller is connected with IO bridge sheet by conventional bus.
Every described processor plate further comprises processor plate mainboard and processor plate daughter board, wherein, is connected by connector between processor plate mainboard and the processor plate daughter board.
Described processor plate mainboard comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and are connected with the processor plate daughter board by described connector;
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface;
A plurality of IO bridge sheets wherein, link to each other by the HT interface between IO bridge sheet and the processor socket.
Described processor plate daughter board comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and are connected with the processor plate mainboard by connector;
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface.
Described polylith IO plate comprises a plurality of IO controllers at least.
Described system comprises 4 processor plates, and each processor plate comprises 2 processor sockets.
Every described processor plate comprises 1 processor plate mainboard and 1 processor plate daughter board, and each processor plate mainboard and processor plate daughter board comprise 2 processor sockets respectively.
Server system provided by the invention has the following advantages:
(1) user's configuration mode of system is more flexible, mode by polylith processor plate and IO plate realizes a 8-socket Glueless server system based on the Opteron processor in the present invention, the user can select different configuration modes to realize a 2-socket server system until the various configurations between the 8-socket server system according to the actual requirements;
(2) adopt the blade server framework to realize, veneer can realize easily that by the cooperation of Handle Bar and guide rail the scene of veneer is removed and installed;
(3) the 8-socket Glueless server system of realizing on existing blade server hardware platform provides the Equipment Management Function abundanter more than existing 8-socket Glueless server system;
(4) with blade server in other server system all unify to be placed on the blade server hardware platform, can be easily and big server cluster system of other server systems compositions;
(5) processor plate in the server system and IO plate are realized by the polylith veneer respectively, can increase the fault isolation degree between system module, also can improve the upgrade function of system modular simultaneously.
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Fig. 1 is the structural drawing of the 8-socket server system based on the Opteron processor of the prior art;
Fig. 2 is based on the structural drawing of the 8-socket server system of Opteron processor among the embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 3 is the composition structural drawing of processor plate among the embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 4 is the composition structural drawing of IO plate among the embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 5 is based on the structural drawing of the 8-socket server system of Opteron processor among the another one embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 6 is the composition structural drawing of processor main board among the another one embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 7 is the composition structural drawing of processor daughter board among the another one embodiment provided by the invention;
Fig. 8 is the composition structural drawing of IO plate among the another one embodiment provided by the invention.
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In order to make purpose of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage clearer,, the present invention is further elaborated below in conjunction with drawings and Examples.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explanation the present invention, and be not used in qualification the present invention.
The present invention has realized server system based on the Glueless of AMDOpteron processor at Blade Server (blade server) above the hardware platform.Blade server is to be a kind of high available highdensity low-cost server platform of special applications industry and high density computer environment design specially, in fact each blade is exactly a block system mainboard, can move independently operating system, be similar to an independently server.All mainboards can couple together provides the network environment of a high speed, can shared resource, realize the centralized management of system simultaneously.
Fig. 2 shows the formation framework of the 8-socket system that realizes provided by the invention on Blade Server hardware platform.
System comprises 4 CPU modules (CPU module) plate and two IO modules (IO Module) plate.Processor plate and IO plate other hardware single board with blade server on board dimension and structure is the same, and by the cooperation of Handle Bar and guide rail, processor plate and IO plate just can be inserted on the pickup groove position of blade server easily.Other hardware single board compatibility of the external interface of processor plate and IO plate and blade server, simultaneously because the connector of backboard on these groove positions and is connected other hardware single board of the existing blade server of signal compatibility, do not have to influence so on existing blade server, strengthen the system specification that the server system that the present invention realized of providing support supports original blade server.
Each processor plate externally provides four HT (Hyper Transport, super transmission) interface, and each IO plate externally provides two HT interfaces.Processor plate and IO plate are realized interconnection by the HT interface that veneer externally provides through backboard respectively.HT is a kind of novel high-speed interconnect interface that company such as AMD proposes, and is a kind of high-performance, high-speed, high bandwidth and point-to-point connecting interface, makes the stand-by period that is connected between chip and the chip reach bottom line.
Fig. 3 shows the structure of processor plate, and CPU module plate mainly comprises two processor sockets (CPUSocket), memory modules, single board management controller module, clock and power module.Two processor sockets (CPU Socket) are used for placing the Opteron processor of AMD, link to each other by cHT between the processor socket.CHT is a HT interface of supporting cache (high-speed cache) consistency protocol, is mainly used in the HT interface that interconnects between processor and the processor, and each processor socket externally provides HT and cHT interface.
Memory modules is by a plurality of DIMM (Dual-Inline-Memory-Modules, the dual inline type memory module) bar is formed, every group of DIMM bar is connected to the memory interface of each Opteron processor by DDR (Double Data Rate, the Double Data Rate) interface of 128bits.
Single board management controller module (BMC, Board Management Controller) running state information that is used for collecting veneer, the status information, temperature and the information of voltage that comprise the veneer main modular, IPMI by standard is connected to the equipment control centralized control plate (not shown) of the redundancy backup in the blade server system through backboard, by serial ports on the equipment control centralized control plate or network interface equipment running status information is outputed to the outer software System of Equipment Management (not shown) of machine frame again.The single board management controller module is connected with two processor sockets by JTAG (Joint Test Action Group, combined testing action group are a kind of international standard test protocols) interface, passes through I
2C (I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit, internal integrated circuit) bus is connected with memory modules.Power module passes through I
2C is connected with the single board management controller module, and clock module provides the clock signal of system.
The IO plate mainly provides system external IO interface, and Fig. 4 shows the functional block diagram of IO plate, comprises IO controller, IO bridge sheet, memory device, low-speed device, single board management controller module, power supply and clock module.
The IO controller provides the opertaing device of the external different IO interface of system, and these IO interfaces comprise network interface and memory interface.Network interface comprises GE (Gigabit Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet), 10GE interface or other Ethernet interface.Memory interface comprises FC (Fiber Channel, optical-fibre channel), SATA (Serial ATA, serial ATA), SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, small computer system interface), iSCSI or other storage device interface.
Be connected by traditional I bus (Legacy Bus) between IO bridge sheet and the IO controller, realize the conversion between HT bus and the conventional bus, hard-disk interface (Harddisk Interface) and LPC (Low Pin Count perhaps directly externally are provided, low pin number) bus interface, comprise computer by serial, parallel port, USB (Universal Serial Bus, USB (universal serial bus)) interface or other low-speed device interfaces.
The single board management controller module is used for collecting the running state information of veneer, the status information, temperature and the information of voltage that comprise the veneer main modular, the single board management controller module is connected with IO bridge sheet by SMBus (SystemManagement Bus, System Management Bus).Hard disk is connected with IO bridge sheet by hard-disk interface, and low-speed device is connected with IO bridge sheet by the lpc bus interface.
As another one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in Figure 5, system mainly comprises two processor plates and two blocks of IO plates.Processor plate provides the processor socket and the memory modules of system.The IO plate provides system required external interface.Two processor plates externally provide the HT bus interface, interconnect by backboard.Processor plate and IO plate are placed on the backboard.Every processor plate all links to each other with a corresponding with it IO plate.
In the present embodiment, owing to be subjected to the restriction of blade server system structure, the heat-sinking capability of each single-board slot of blade server and size are all limited, and processor plate will comprise 4 CPU simultaneously, so processor plate structurally just comprises a mainboard and a daughter board.Daughter board only comprises two processor sockets and corresponding memory modules.The remainder of processor plate just all is placed on the mainboard.The power supply and the clock of daughter board are provided by mainboard.
The structure of processor plate mainboard mainly comprises two processor sockets (CPU socket), memory modules, IO bridge sheet, single board management controller module, clock and power module as shown in Figure 6.Processor socket is mainly used to place the Opteron processor.Memory modules mainly comprises two groups of memory modules of being made up of a plurality of DIMM bars.Every group of DIMM bar is connected to the memory interface of each Opteron processor by the ddr interface of 128bits.IO bridge sheet realizes that mainly the HT bus is to the translation function as traditional I buses such as PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect, peripheral component interconnect), PCI-E or PCI-X.Local IO equipment such as BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, Basic Input or Output System (BIOS)) etc. are connected on the IO bridge sheet.Another one IO bridge sheet provides the PCI-E interface to be connected to the IO plate.The single board management controller module is used for collecting the running state information of veneer, comprises status information, temperature and the information of voltage of veneer main modular.And the IPMI interface by standard is connected to the equipment control centralized control plate of the redundancy backup in the blade server system through backboard.By serial ports on the equipment control centralized control plate or network interface equipment running status information is outputed to the outer device management software of machine frame again.Each processor socket provides a cHT interface, is connected on the daughter board by connector, communicates with other processor on the daughter board.
Fig. 7 shows the structure of processor plate daughter board, mainly comprises two processor sockets and corresponding memory modules.Two processor sockets on the daughter board connect other two processor sockets of mainboard by connector.Power supply and clock that processor socket on the daughter board and memory modules need obtain from mainboard by the connector on the daughter board.
Fig. 8 shows the structure of IO plate.The IO plate mainly provides system external IO interface, comprises various IO controllers, local IO equipment, single board management controller module, power supply and clock module.The IO controller is the opertaing device that the external different I interface of system (IO Interface) mainly is provided, these IO interfaces comprise network interface and memory interface, network interface comprises GE, 10GE interface or other Ethernet interface, and memory interface comprises FC, SATA, SCSI, iSCSI or other storage device interface.The IO interface is according to the difference of the IO controller that veneer adopted and difference.
Local IO equipment comprises hard disk or other low speed IO equipment such as FLASH etc., is connected to the IO controller by hard-disk interface (Harddisk Interface), lpc bus interface respectively.The single board management controller module is connected with the IO controller by SMBus, is used for collecting the running state information of veneer, comprises status information, temperature and the information of voltage of veneer main modular.
The above only is preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to restriction the present invention, all any modifications of being done within the spirit and principles in the present invention, is equal to and replaces and improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.
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1, a kind of server system based on the Opteron processor, it is characterized in that, described server system comprises polylith processor plate and polylith IO plate, described processor plate and IO plate are inserted respectively on the pickup groove position of described server system, wherein, connect through backboard by the HT interface between processor plate and the IO plate, connect by the cHT interface between the processor plate, processor plate is connected by processor socket with the Opteron processor.
2, server system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, every described processor plate comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and the HT interface externally is provided; And
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface.
3, server system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described polylith IO plate comprises at least:
A plurality of IO bridge sheets; And
A plurality of IO controllers, wherein, the IO controller is connected with IO bridge sheet by conventional bus.
4, server system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, every described processor plate further comprises processor plate mainboard and processor plate daughter board, wherein, is connected by connector between processor plate mainboard and the processor plate daughter board.
5, server system as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, described processor plate mainboard comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and are connected with the processor plate daughter board by described connector;
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface;
A plurality of IO bridge sheets wherein, link to each other by the HT interface between IO bridge sheet and the processor socket.
6, server system as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, described processor plate daughter board comprises at least:
A plurality of processor sockets wherein, connect by the cHT interface between the processor socket, and are connected with the processor plate mainboard by connector;
A plurality of memory modules, wherein, memory modules is connected with processor socket by memory interface.
7, server system as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, described polylith IO plate comprises a plurality of IO controllers at least.
As claim 1,2 or 3 described server systems, it is characterized in that 8, described system comprises 4 processor plates, each processor plate comprises 2 processor sockets.
As claim 4,5,6 or 7 described server systems, it is characterized in that 9, every described processor plate comprises 1 processor plate mainboard and 1 processor plate daughter board, each processor plate mainboard and processor plate daughter board comprise 2 processor sockets respectively.
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