Absolute Hosting sent us one of its Supermicro Hyper A+ servers to test for ourselves – so we set it up to see what it has to offer.<\/p>\n
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<\/h3>\nImpressive processing power<\/h3>\n
The Supermicro Hyper A+ AS-2125HS-TNR is a high-performance, highly configurable system that, when fitted with AMD\u2019s EPYC Bergamo 9754 CPUs, is the ultimate solution for cloud-native workloads.<\/p>\n
It features dual 4th-gen AMD EPYC Bergamo 9754 CPUs that each offer 128 cores, 256 threads, and boost speeds up to 3.1GHz.<\/p>\n
The Bergamo 9754 CPUs offer significant performance improvements over the previous generation of 96-core Genoa CPUs, including the highest core count for any x86 CPU to date.<\/p>\n
With 128 cores and significantly better performance per watt, AMD\u2019s Bergamo 9754 CPUs are not only faster but also the most energy-efficient server CPUs on the market.<\/p>\n
The result is a big performance improvement when running cloud-native applications.<\/p>\n
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<\/h3>\nHow big a performance improvement, you ask?<\/h3>\n
AMD compared its Bergamo 9754 CPUs to its competitors and found that, with an NGINX target of infrastructure delivering 375 million requests per second, customers would require:<\/p>\n
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- Up to 55% fewer servers<\/li>\n
- Up to 39% less power usage<\/li>\n
- Up to 19% lower total cost of ownership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
RAM and storage<\/h3>\n
In the Supermicro Hyper A+ server, AMD\u2019s Bergamo 9754 CPUs can then be paired with up to 6TB DDR5 4,800MHz RAM across 24 DIMM slots.<\/p>\n
Absolute Hosting fitted our server with a massive 1.5TB DDR5 RAM (24x 64GB chips) and 42TB SSD storage \u2013 making it the most powerful piece of computing hardware we have ever handled.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nEqually impressive was the layout of the storage drive, which comprised two 1TB and ten 4TB PCIe 4.0 Samsung SSDs, filling 12 of the server\u2019s 24 2.5-inch hot-swappable hybrid NVMe\/SATA\/SAS drive bays.<\/p>\n
The Supermicro Hyper A+ AMD EPYC Bergamo also offers two M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD slots that can accommodate 2280 and 22110 M.2 drives for booting.<\/p>\n
Powering the entire system is dual Titanium-level redundant 1,600W power supplies, cooled by four 80mm heavy-duty fans with two AirShrouds.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nSuperior performance<\/h3>\n
The result of this powerful hardware is a server that can handle more than three-times the throughput performance, across a variety of cloud workloads, than any other product on the market.<\/p>\n
This superior performance is the reason Absolute Hosting exclusively uses Supermicro<\/strong><\/a> servers with AMD<\/strong><\/a> Bergamo CPUs, ensuring its clients receive exceptional performance, redundancy, and maximum uptime.<\/p>\n
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