CN213069668U - Device structure for improving service capacity of 2U edge computing server - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to an edge calculation server technical field provides a promote 2U edge calculation server business capacity's device structure. One or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the first PCIe expansion board; one or more board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are formed in the mainboard and are positioned on the side of the external interface panel of the case shell; when the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots comprise two or more than two board-mounted PCIe expansion slots, the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are spaced by a specified distance, and the specified distance is used for accommodating one or more PCIe cards arranged on the first PCIe expansion board after the first PCIe expansion board is vertically inserted into the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots. The utility model discloses can realize all reaching the industry sector top on storage capacity or PCIe business capacity and join in marriage, reduce the repeated development cost that the configuration change arouses, realize high system compatibility and scalability, effectively promote the competitiveness of product.

Description

Device structure for improving service capacity of 2U edge computing server

[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device

The utility model relates to an edge calculation server technical field especially relates to a promote device structure of 2U edge calculation server business capacity.

[ background of the invention ]

With the development of 5G and the Internet of things, the requirements of users on data instantaneity, flow and the like are higher and higher, and the generation of a novel calculation model, namely edge calculation, for generating, processing and analyzing data at the edge of a network is promoted.

Since edge computing has just emerged, many applications are still in the laboratory phase, and different client application scenarios have different requirements on the performance of the server system, but have higher and higher requirements on the system capacity. Such as: banks and multimedia service providers have strong appeal for large storage; and stations and shopping malls have higher requirements for video monitoring and image data processing capabilities. However, for edge room cabinets to be much less deep than traditional data center data cabinets, the depth of edge computing servers to meet the deployment in the edge room has to be significantly reduced compared to the depth of traditional server equipment.

Moreover, the edge computing server follows the size of a panel of a GB/T19520.1 rack-mounted device in width and height, and simultaneously needs to meet the requirement of the OTII industry for leading a PCIe slot peripheral interface, the panel space is greatly compressed, and a situation that a panel side storage interface, a PCIe slot peripheral interface and a system control I/O interface are difficult to be considered is formed. The traditional method of obtaining the PCIe expansion capacity by depending on the number of PCIe slots carried by a mainboard on board is not beneficial to the layout of system control I/O and also not beneficial to the number of PCIe slots and the storage capacity. Therefore, it is very important to realize the enhancement of the expansion capability of the edge computing server on the service capacities such as storage, the number of PCIe slots, and the like by using a certain method.

In view of the above, overcoming the drawbacks of the prior art is an urgent problem in the art.

[ Utility model ] content

The embodiment of the utility model provides a technical problem that solve is traditional dependence mainboard board carries PCIe slot quantity and acquires the way of PCIe expanded capacity, is unfavorable for system control IO's overall arrangement promptly, also is not favorable to also compromising PCIe slot quantity and storage capacity.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an adopt following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, the utility model provides a promote device structure of 2U edge calculation server business capacity, including quick-witted case, mainboard, first PCIe expansion board, storage function module and function module, wherein, mainboard, storage function module and function module are all set up in the quick-witted case shell of edge calculation server, and are concrete:

one or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the first PCIe expansion board;

one or more board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are formed in the mainboard and are positioned on the side of the external interface panel of the case shell;

when the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots comprise two or more than two board-mounted PCIe expansion slots, the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are spaced by a specified distance, and the specified distance is used for accommodating one or more PCIe cards arranged on the first PCIe expansion board after the first PCIe expansion board is vertically inserted into the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots.

Preferably, the device architecture further includes a second PCIe expansion board, specifically:

one or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the second PCIe expansion board, the second PCIe expansion board is horizontally arranged in the case relative to the mainboard, and a data link is established with the mainboard through a data line interface.

Preferably, the data line interface specifically includes: any one of IDE interface, SATA interface, mSATA interface, M.2 interface, AHCI interface and NVMe interface.

Preferably, the data line interfaces correspond to the number of PCIe slots arranged on the second PCIe expansion board one to one.

Preferably, the storage function module includes a hard disk cage and one or more storage disks, wherein the storage disks are disposed in the hard disk cage, specifically:

the side surface of the hard disk cage is also provided with a sliding chute, and the mainboard is provided with at least one positioning piece; when the second PCIe expansion board is fixed, one side of the second PCIe expansion board is embedded into the sliding groove of the hard disk cage, and the second PCIe expansion board is fixedly combined with the positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board through the positioning piece.

Preferably, the positioning element is a nut arranged on the main board, and a screw which is matched with the nut and passes through a positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board; or, the positioning piece is specifically an inverted buckle arranged on the main board.

Preferably, the outline of the main board is L-shaped, and a neutral area of the L-shaped outline is used for accommodating part of the storage function module and the second PCIe expansion board.

Preferably, the first PCIe expansion board and the onboard PCIe expansion slot on the mainboard adopt PCIe protocol communication; and each PCIe card on the corresponding first PCIe expansion board establishes data communication with the mainboard through the onboard PCIe expansion slot in a serial port data transmission mode.

Preferably, the first PCIe expansion board is provided with one or more conventional PCIe slots, specifically 3 horizontal slots, the onboard PCIe expansion slot is an x32PCIe connection signal, and the x32PCIe connection signal is divided into 1 x16 PCIe connection signal and 2 x8 PCIe connection signals on the first PCIe expansion board.

Preferably, the first PCIe expansion board is provided with one or more conventional PCIe slots, and specifically includes:

the PCIe slots arranged on the first PCIe expansion board are slots with preset inclination angles; the inclination angle enables the PCIe card to present the preset inclination angle after being inserted into the PCIe slot on the first PCIe expansion board.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses beneficial effect lies in:

the utility model discloses can realize all reaching the industry sector top on storage capacity or PCIe business capacity and join in marriage, reduce the complexity of server design simultaneously, reduce the repeated development cost that the configuration change arouses, realize high system compatibility and scalability, effectively promote the competitiveness of product.

[ description of the drawings ]

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

Fig. 1 is a top view of a device for increasing the service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an assembly structure of a motherboard and a first PCIe expansion board in an apparatus structure for increasing service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a front view of an interface of a device structure for increasing service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a second PCIe expansion board in the apparatus structure for increasing the service capacity of the 2U edge computing server according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an installation structure of a second PCIe expansion board in the apparatus structure for increasing the service capacity of the 2U edge computing server according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of an installation structure of a second PCIe expansion board corresponding to a hard disk cage in an apparatus structure for increasing service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an associated hard disk cage after a second PCIe expansion board is installed in the apparatus structure for increasing the service capacity of the 2U edge computing server according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a structural plan view of an apparatus for increasing the service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a top view of a device for increasing the service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a first PCIe expansion board improvement provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is an assembly effect diagram of a first PCIe expansion board improved structure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[ detailed description ] embodiments

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

In the description of the present invention, the terms "inside", "outside", "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "top", "bottom", etc. indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention but do not require that the present invention must be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Adopt the design scheme of the utility model, can realize all reaching the industry sector top on storage capacity or PCIe business capacity and join in marriage, reduce the complexity of server design simultaneously, reduce the repeated development cost that the configuration change arouses, realize high system compatibility and scalability, effectively promote the competitiveness of product.

Furthermore, the technical features mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention described below can be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.

Example 1:

embodiment 1 provides a promote device structure of 2U edge calculation server business capacity, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, including quick-witted case, mainboard, first PCIe expansion board, storage function module and functional module, wherein, mainboard, storage function module and functional module are all set up in edge calculation server's computer case shell internally, and are specific:

one or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the first PCIe expansion board; taking fig. 2 as an example, the conventional PCIe slots disposed on the first PCIe expansion board include 1 full-height PCIe slot located at the uppermost level and 2 half-height PCIe slots located below the full-height PCIe slot. In practical cases, the first PCIe expansion board including 3, 4 or even more PCIe slots may be customized according to the thickness of the corresponding chassis (i.e., the height of the corresponding first PCIe expansion board shown in fig. 2) and the service expansion requirements.

One or more board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are formed in the mainboard and are positioned on the side of the external interface panel of the case shell; as shown in fig. 1, an exemplary implementation presents a schematic diagram of a motherboard structure including 2 onboard PCIe expansion slots, and since most PCIe cards include external ports, a corresponding onboard PCIe expansion slot setting manner may be designed in a manner perpendicular to an external interface surface of a chassis (i.e., a chassis surface where a bottom area shown in fig. 2 is located), so as to ensure that after the setting of a first PCIe expansion board is completed and the PCIe cards on the first PCIe expansion board are assembled, an external interface structure similar to that shown in fig. 3 can be formed.

When the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots comprise two or more than two board-mounted PCIe expansion slots, the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are spaced by a specified distance (in fig. 2, the position relation of the space between the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots is marked by a distance arrow), and the specified distance is used for accommodating one or more PCIe cards arranged on the first PCIe expansion board after the first PCIe expansion board is vertically inserted into the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots (the effect of the corresponding specified distance is indicated through the case external interface shown in fig. 3).

The utility model discloses can realize all reaching the industry sector top on storage capacity or PCIe business capacity and join in marriage, reduce the complexity of server design simultaneously, reduce the repeated development cost that the configuration change arouses, realize high system compatibility and scalability, effectively promote the competitiveness of product.

As can be easily seen from the above embodiment 1, the first PCIe expansion board is implemented by providing one or more onboard PCIe expansion slots on the motherboard, which has the advantage of a preset structure, but also has the problem of reduced flexibility. Therefore, in combination with embodiment 1 of the present invention, a preferred implementation is further provided, as shown in fig. 4, the apparatus structure further includes a second PCIe expansion board, specifically:

the second PCIe expansion board is provided with one or more conventional PCIe slots (shown in fig. 4, a schematic structural presentation of PCIe slot 1 and PCIe slot 2 is given), and the second PCIe expansion board is horizontally disposed in the chassis relative to the motherboard and establishes a data link with the motherboard through a data line interface (shown in fig. 4, a structural presentation in which data line interface 1 and data line interface 2 are disposed corresponding to PCIe slot 1 and PCIe slot 2). As shown in fig. 4, a power interface is also typically disposed on the second PCIe expansion board, where the power interface is used to connect to a power interface on the motherboard or directly connect to a power output port disposed in the chassis, so as to supply power to a corresponding PCIe slot on the second PCIe expansion board. The data line interface specifically comprises: any one of IDE interface, SATA interface, mSATA interface, M.2 interface, AHCI interface and NVMe interface. As shown in fig. 4, the data line interfaces correspond to the number of PCIe slots disposed on the second PCIe expansion board one to one. In an alternative implementation scheme, the structural design that one data line interface corresponds to a plurality of PCIe slots is not excluded.

In the embodiment of the present invention, there is a preferred implementation scheme, as shown in fig. 5, fig. 6 and fig. 7, the storage function module includes a hard disk cage and one or more storage disks, where the storage disks are disposed inside the hard disk cage, specifically:

the side surface of the hard disk cage is also provided with a sliding chute, and the mainboard is provided with at least one positioning piece; when the second PCIe expansion board is fixed, one side of the second PCIe expansion board is embedded into the sliding groove of the hard disk cage, and the second PCIe expansion board is fixedly combined with the positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board through the positioning piece.

As shown in fig. 5, 6 and 7, the positioning element is a nut disposed on the main board, and a screw coupled with the nut and passing through a positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board; or, the positioning piece is specifically an inverted buckle arranged on the main board.

In combination with the embodiment of the present invention, a preferred motherboard structure design is shown, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the outline of the motherboard is L-shaped, and the neutral area of the L-shaped outline is used for accommodating the portion of the storage function module and the second PCIe expansion board.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, for the same chassis and the same motherboard structure, dynamic matching of the corresponding second PCIe expansion board in the same motherboard structure can be realized by dynamically adjusting the specification of the storage function module, so that the combination form proposed by the present novel embodiment is richer, and different applicable scenario requirements are met. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the connecting part of the 10 disk hard disk cage and the case body is completely reused for mounting the 6 disk hard disk cage; the PCIe expansion board panel installation depends on the reserved positioning piece at the bottom of the case and the adjacent parts at two sides to be fixed; the PCI expansion board 2 is installed by reserving a mounting stud between the main board and the 10-disk hard disk cage and a 6-disk hard disk cage side wall limiting structure. Therefore, the mounting positions of all the replaced parts are completely compatible to adapt to different configuration requirements, and the case body is not changed. Use the utility model discloses technical scheme's server data storage functional area is multiplexing with PCIe slot position extended functionality region, based on same mainboard platform, maintains quick-witted case major structure unchangeable, and the structure is multiplexing completely more than 95%, realizes that 2U edge calculation server can satisfy the business capacity maximize under the different business demands. Benefit from the utility model discloses business capacity promotes method's application in 2U edge calculation server model that the embodiment provided both can expand PCIe business interface to 8, also can expand storage service interface to supporting 10 2.5inch hard disks. For 2U type products in the field of edge computing, no matter 8 PCIe slots or 10 2.5inch hard disk interfaces are realized, the top configuration in the industry belongs to, and the flexibility of service expansion of the edge computing 2U server is further improved after the same chassis is subjected to multi-configuration bearing.

In the embodiment of the present invention, PCIe protocol communication is adopted between the first PCIe expansion board and the board-mounted PCIe expansion slot on the motherboard; and each PCIe card on the corresponding first PCIe expansion board establishes data communication with the mainboard through the onboard PCIe expansion slot in a serial port data transmission mode.

In addition, another data communication establishing mode can be adopted, one or more conventional PCIe slots, specifically 3 horizontal slots, are arranged on the first PCIe expansion board, the onboard PCIe expansion slot is an x32PCIe connection signal, and the x32PCIe connection signal is divided into 1 x16 PCIe connection signal and 2 x8 PCIe connection signals on the first PCIe expansion board.

In order to further increase the number of the first PCIe expansion boards that can be accommodated in the chassis, an improved scheme concept is also provided, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, where one or more conventional PCIe slots are disposed on the first PCIe expansion board, and the improved scheme specifically includes:

the PCIe slots arranged on the first PCIe expansion board are slots with preset inclination angles; the inclination angle enables the PCIe card to present the preset inclination angle after being inserted into the PCIe slot on the first PCIe expansion board. This has the advantage that the integration density of the PCIe cards on the first PCIe expansion board can be further increased, and the length of the specified distance shown in fig. 2 can be reduced, so as to increase the total number of PCIe expansion slots capable of accommodating the carrier board in the same motherboard.

Example 2:

as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, for the utility model provides a promote device structure example of 2U edge calculation server business capacity, the device structure contains quick-witted case, installs mainboard and PCIe slot expansion board 1, PCIe slot expansion board 2, 10 bays &6 bays hard disk storage area in quick-witted incasement. The mainboard only reserves 2 x32PCIe connectors and a plurality of other power supply or data communication connectors except for a CPU and a DIMM core computing device, and the outline of the mainboard (the lower right corner of the mainboard) is deliberately avoided from a hard disk storage area in consideration of the expansion requirement of the storage service capacity, which is the premise of the storage service expansion and the elastic change of the PCIe slot number.

The PCIe slot expansion board 1 directly obtains PCIe data signals and supplies power from the motherboard, expands 1 PCIe connector on the motherboard from 1 vertical slot to 3 horizontal slots physically, and divides the PCIe connection signal from x32 on the signal into 1 x16 and 2 x8 PCIe connection signals. Meanwhile, in the aspect of space utilization, due to the change of the PCIe slot direction, the physical layered layout of PCIe I/O and mainboard onboard I/O can be realized, and the devices such as mainboard onboard keys, I/O, lamp holes and the like are all arranged regularly, on the same layer and uniformly. Two PCIe slot expansion boards 1 can be used in the edge computing server product at the same time, and the service capacity of 2 x16 and 4 x8 PCIe slots is realized after expansion.

On the basis, the PCIe slot expansion board 2 is used to further increase the PCIe slot traffic capacity. The PCIe slot expansion card 2 is completely independent from the motherboard in terms of installation space and physical structure, and power supply and signal transmission between the motherboard and the expansion board are connected to the motherboard end and the expansion board end through cables, respectively. The data storage function area and the PCIe slot position expansion function area in the server are multiplexed, and the change of functional modules including a case main body, a mainboard, power supply, heat dissipation and the like in a server system is not involved. The storage capacity of the same platform server type can be guaranteed, flexible expansion of PCIe slot number can be achieved, structure exchange can be achieved to a minimum degree, and different product requirements of customers are met.

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 (10)

1. The utility model provides a promote device structure of 2U edge calculation server business capacity, its characterized in that includes quick-witted case, mainboard, first PCIe expansion board, storage function module and function module, wherein, mainboard, storage function module and function module are all set up in edge calculation server's computer case shell, and are specific:

one or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the first PCIe expansion board;

one or more board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are formed in the mainboard and are positioned on the side of the external interface panel of the case shell;

when the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots comprise two or more than two board-mounted PCIe expansion slots, the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots are spaced by a specified distance, and the specified distance is used for accommodating one or more PCIe cards arranged on the first PCIe expansion board after the first PCIe expansion board is vertically inserted into the board-mounted PCIe expansion slots.

2. The apparatus architecture for increasing 2U edge compute server traffic capacity of claim 1, in which the apparatus architecture further comprises a second PCIe expansion board, specifically:

one or more conventional PCIe slots are arranged on the second PCIe expansion board, the second PCIe expansion board is horizontally arranged in the case relative to the mainboard, and a data link is established with the mainboard through a data line interface.

3. The apparatus structure for increasing service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to claim 2, wherein the data line interface is specifically: any one of IDE interface, SATA interface, mSATA interface, M.2 interface, AHCI interface and NVMe interface.

4. The apparatus structure for increasing traffic capacity of a 2U edge computing server of claim 3, wherein the data line interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with the number of PCIe slots disposed on the second PCIe expansion board.

5. The apparatus structure for increasing service capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to claim 2, wherein the storage function module comprises a hard disk cage and one or more storage disks, wherein the storage disks are disposed in the hard disk cage, specifically:

the side surface of the hard disk cage is also provided with a sliding chute, and the mainboard is provided with at least one positioning piece; when the second PCIe expansion board is fixed, one side of the second PCIe expansion board is embedded into the sliding groove of the hard disk cage, and the second PCIe expansion board is fixedly combined with the positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board through the positioning piece.

6. The architecture of claim 5, wherein the positioning element is a nut disposed on the motherboard and a screw that is coupled to the nut through a positioning hole in the second PCIe expansion board; or, the positioning piece is specifically an inverted buckle arranged on the main board.

7. The apparatus structure for increasing 2U edge computing server traffic capacity of claim 5, wherein the outline of the motherboard is L-shaped, and wherein a free area of the L-shaped outline is used for accommodating part of the storage function module and the second PCIe expansion board.

8. The apparatus architecture for increasing traffic capacity of a 2U edge computing server of any of claims 1-7, wherein the first PCIe expansion board communicates with an onboard PCIe expansion slot on the motherboard using a PCIe protocol; and each PCIe card on the corresponding first PCIe expansion board establishes data communication with the mainboard through the onboard PCIe expansion slot in a serial port data transmission mode.

9. The apparatus structure for increasing traffic capacity of a 2U edge computing server of any one of claims 1-7, wherein the first PCIe expansion board has one or more conventional PCIe slots, specifically 3 horizontal slots, the onboard PCIe expansion slot is x32PCIe connection signals, and the x32PCIe connection signals are divided into 1 x16 PCIe connection signal and 2 x8 PCIe connection signals on the first PCIe expansion board.

10. The apparatus structure for increasing traffic capacity of a 2U edge computing server according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the first PCIe expansion board has one or more conventional PCIe slots disposed thereon, and specifically includes:

the PCIe slots arranged on the first PCIe expansion board are slots with preset inclination angles; the inclination angle enables the PCIe card to present the preset inclination angle after being inserted into the PCIe slot on the first PCIe expansion board.

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