Over the past two months I have been publishing a number of fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P " [1]Granite Rapids " flagship processor performance under Linux. All of those new Xeon 6900 series benchmarks on Phoronix have been from the Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 2U rack server that has proven to be a very robust and reliable server platform.

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After my Xeon 6900 series "AvenueCity" reference server failed, Giga Computing came to the rescue and provided the Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 barebones server platform to continue on in providing new Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids benchmarks on Phoronix. This 2U dual processor rack server has been seeing constant benchmarking the past two months now and has been working out exceptionally well and reliable.

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The R284-A92-AAL1 also boasts a great deal of expansion capabilities. Beyond supporting two Xeon 6900 series processors with 12 channels of DDR5-RDIMM / MRDIMM memory, this Giga Computing GNR server platform supports twenty-four 2.5-inch Gen5 NVMe / SATA / SAS-4 hot-swap bays, two additional 2.5-inch hot-swap bays on the rear, two M.2 slots for PCIe Gen5 x4, two FHHL dual-slot PCIe Gen5 x16 slots, and two FHHL single slot PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Plus with an OCP NIC 3.0 PCIe Gen5 x16 slot, there is a wealth of connectivity options on this Giga Computing server whether you are after a general purpose high core count server platform, HPC server, or for harnessing multiple GPUs/accelerators in assembling an AI server paired with Granite Rapids CPUs featuring AVX-512 and AMX.

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The Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 relies on air cooling for the two Intel LGA-7529 processors. With this server there are four 80mm intake fans.

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The motherboard in use for this rack server is the Gigabyte MA94-FS0.

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Rear I/O on this Giga Computing server include dual Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Management LAN for the BMC, mini-DP output connected to the ASpeed AST2600 BMC, and two USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports. Front panel I/O includes two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports in Type-A form.

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For the twenty-four hot-swap 2.5-inch storage bays in the front, eight of them are connected to the first CPU while the remaining sixteen are to the secondary CPU socket -- in the event you were considering a single CPU initially to then potentially upgrade with a secondary CPU later.

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Shipping with the Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL1 are 1+1 2700W 80 PLUS Titanium redundant power supplies for providing plenty of power if running the top-end Xeon 6980P processors, maxed out with MRDIMMs, and using multiple PCIe accelerator cards.

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[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Granite+Rapids

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_1_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_2_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_4_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_3_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_5_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_6_lrg

[8] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_7_lrg

[9] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=giga-computing-r284&image=giga_computing_r284_8_lrg