CN209895340U

CN209895340U - Modular server

Info

Publication number: CN209895340U
Application number: CN201920989177.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 程鹏; 刘海亮
Original assignee: Suzhou Wave Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Wave Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-06-27
Filing date: 2019-06-27
Publication date: 2020-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 2029-06-27

Abstract

The utility model provides a modularization server, the utility model discloses a be provided with CPU board support plate high speed connector, PCH board support plate high speed connector, peripheral equipment board support plate high speed connector, the high speed connector of RAM board support plate, BMC board support plate signal connector and CPLD board support plate signal connector on the support plate, arrange and form the server of different demands, realize the modularization server of a free collocation from this. In the whole project development, each modular board card is reused, only a specific development carrier plate is needed, the workload of the board card containing the key chip is reduced, the development cost is reduced, and the project progress is accelerated; in practical application, different modular board cards and carrier plates are matched to generate different types of servers, the requirements of different customers are met, and the universal rate of modular design is higher.

Description

Modular server

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a server machine case design technical field, especially a modular server.

Background

The internet development is rapidly advanced without the development of infrastructure, and the most important is the development of servers. The server is used as an infrastructure for the development of the Internet and provides the most basic hardware guarantee for the development of various services.

Current server hardware technology is largely divided into several mainstream provider platforms, such as: intel's X86 platform, ARM server platform, AMD server platform, etc. Servers that employ the Intel's X86 platform in today's various cloud services or enterprises dominate.

In the current Intel X86 platform server design, each server manufacturer is a motherboard and other peripheral boards that are purposefully designed to meet requirements based on the CRB (i.e., the public edition) of the platform, and the motherboard is designed differently due to the requirements of the server mechanism, heat dissipation, and the like. And the design of different mainboards will occupy a large part of time, and from schematic diagram design, PCB wiring and the like, great manpower is consumed. In order to meet the design and heat dissipation requirements of different server mechanisms and reduce the labor and cost consumed by the design, a board card with a modular design needs to be developed and used in a server. However, there is no server with similar modular board card configuration in the prior art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at providing a modular server aims at solving the problem that lacks the server of modularization integrated circuit board collocation among the prior art, realizes freely arranging modular server, reduces development cost for the project progress improves the modularization design universal ratio.

In order to achieve the above technical object, the utility model provides a modular server, modular server includes:

the carrier plate is provided with a CPU board carrier plate high-speed connector, a PCH board carrier plate high-speed connector, a peripheral equipment board carrier plate high-speed connector, a memory board carrier plate high-speed connector, a BMC board carrier plate signal connector and a CPLD board carrier plate signal connector;

the CPU board carrier plate high-speed connector is respectively interconnected with the memory board carrier plate high-speed connector, the peripheral equipment board carrier plate high-speed connector and the PCH board carrier plate high-speed connector, the peripheral equipment board carrier plate high-speed connector is interconnected with the PCH board carrier plate high-speed connector, the PCH board carrier plate high-speed connector is further interconnected with the BMC board carrier plate signal connector and the CPLD board carrier plate signal connector, and the BMC board carrier plate signal connector is interconnected with the CPLD board carrier plate signal connector.

Preferably, the CPU board high-speed signal connector and the PCH board high-speed connector are interconnected with a PECI signal, a DMI signal, a PCIE signal, and a GPIOs signal, and the CPU board high-speed signal connector and the internal memory board high-speed connector are interconnected with a DDR-related high-speed signal and a low-speed signal.

Preferably, the PCH on-board high-speed connector and the BMC on-board signal connector are interconnected with an SML signal, a PCIE signal, an LPC signal, and a USB signal; GPIOs signals are interconnected with the CPLD on-board signal connector, the PCH on-board high-speed connector and the BMC on-board signal connector; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the PCH board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with SATA signals, USB signals and PCIE signals; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the CPU board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with a PCIE signal.

Preferably, the peripheral equipment board is a hard disk backboard with multiple disk positions.

Preferably, the peripheral device board is a GPU board card.

Preferably, the carrier plate is of a custom design.

The effects provided in the contents of the present invention are only the effects of the embodiments, not all the effects of the present invention, and one of the above technical solutions has the following advantages or advantageous effects:

compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses an use modularization integrated circuit board and support plate, both arrange and form the server of different demands, realize the modularization server of freely arranging from this. In the whole project development, each modular board card is reused, only a specific development carrier plate is needed, the workload of the board card containing the key chip is reduced, the development cost is reduced, and the project progress is accelerated; in practical application, different modular board cards and carrier plates are matched to generate different types of servers, the requirements of different customers are met, and the universal rate of modular design is higher.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a modular server provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a modular server carrier signal connector provided in an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to clearly illustrate the technical features of the present invention, the present invention is explained in detail by the following embodiments in combination with the accompanying drawings. The following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different features of the invention. In order to simplify the disclosure of the present invention, the components and arrangements of specific examples are described below. Furthermore, the present invention may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in the various examples. This repetition is for the purpose of simplicity and clarity and does not in itself dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and/or configurations discussed. It should be noted that the components illustrated in the figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. Descriptions of well-known components and processing techniques and processes are omitted so as to not unnecessarily limit the invention.

The following describes a modular server according to an embodiment of the present invention in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the embodiment of the utility model discloses a modular server, the modular server includes:

The carrier plate is a substrate used for bearing each main module board card, is a bottom carrier plate used for high-speed interconnection, and is flexibly designed for each server form, so that the server forms and the heat dissipation requirements are respectively and independently designed, and servers in different forms can be placed with various module board cards on different carrier plates only by considering different carrier plates. As shown in fig. 1, module board cards, such as a CPU board, a memory board, a PCH board, a BMC board, a peripheral board, an I/O board, and a power module board, are individually designed boards, are modularly designed, and are repeatedly used as boards of each server. The carrier board is interconnected with the various modular boards thereon by high speed interconnection connectors or similar signal connectors.

The carrier board is distributed with high-speed signal connectors and part of low-speed signal connectors of various modular board cards, and signals interconnected among the connectors include but are not limited to the following signals:

the CPU on-board high-speed signal connector is interconnected with the PCH on-board high-speed connector, wherein PECI signals, DMI signals, PCIE signals, GPIOs signals and the like are distributed; the high-speed connector of the CPU board carrier board and the high-speed connector of the memory board carrier board are interconnected with DDR-related high-speed signals and low-speed signals; the PCH on-board high-speed connector and the BMC on-board signal connector are interconnected with an SML signal, a PCIE signal, an LPC signal, a USB signal and the like; the CPLD on-board signal connector, the PCH on-board high-speed connector and the BMC on-board signal connector are interconnected with GPIOs signals including but not limited to management signals, timing signals, monitoring signals and the like; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the PCH board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with SATA signals, USB signals and PCIE signals; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the CPU board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with a PCIE signal and the like.

Different server requirements are built through the modularized board cards, and when different server structure requirements exist, all the modularized board cards can be flexibly configured. For example, when a storage server is built, the peripheral board is replaced with a multi-disk hard disk backplane, and when a computing server is built, the current peripheral board can be replaced with an auxiliary computing device such as a GPU.

Different server demands are matched with different board cards, when the server mechanism is different, only the carrier board can be flexibly and independently designed, the board card of a key chip does not need to be changed, the work of PCB wiring and the like of high-speed equipment such as a CPU, a PCH and a DDR is reduced, the occupied time of design work is reduced, and the completion progress of a project is improved.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a through using modularization integrated circuit board and support plate, both arrange and form the server of different demands, realize a free modular server who arranges from this. In the whole project development, each modular board card is reused, only a specific development carrier plate is needed, the workload of the board card containing the key chip is reduced, the development cost is reduced, and the project progress is accelerated; in practical application, different modular board cards and carrier plates are matched to generate different types of servers, the requirements of different customers are met, and the universal rate of modular design is higher.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A modular server, characterized in that the modular server comprises:

2. The modular server of claim 1, wherein the CPU board high speed signal connector and the PCH board high speed connector are interconnected with a PECI signal, a DMI signal, a PCIE signal and a GPIOs signal, and the CPU board high speed signal connector and the memory board carrier high speed connector are interconnected with a DDR related high speed signal and a low speed signal.

3. The modular server of claim 1, wherein the PCH board onboard high speed connector and the BMC board onboard signal connector are interconnected with SML signals, PCIE signals, LPC signals, and USB signals; GPIOs signals are interconnected with the CPLD on-board signal connector, the PCH on-board high-speed connector and the BMC on-board signal connector; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the PCH board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with SATA signals, USB signals and PCIE signals; the peripheral equipment board carrier high-speed connector and the CPU board carrier high-speed connector are interconnected with a PCIE signal.

4. The modular server as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the peripheral board is a multi-disk hard disk backplane.

5. The modular server of any of claims 1-3, wherein the peripheral board is a GPU board.

6. A modular server as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the carrier is custom designed.