BigTwin® 2U Twin Architecture with 2 or 4 Nodes | Supermicro (2024)

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Overview

Highlights

  • 16 DIMM slots per node, up to 4TB DDR5-6400 memory
  • Flexible storage options including PCIe 5.0 EDSFF E3.S and U.2 NVMe drives
  • Flexible networking options via AIOM from 1Gb to 400 Gb

Innovations

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    Optional direct-to-chip liquid cooling

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    Supermicro AIOM - Most Flexible, Cost-Optimized Server I/O

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    Resource Saving for Best Efficiency and TCO

Optimized for:

  • Virtualization
  • Cloud
  • Software-defined Storage
  • Hosting & Content Delivery
  • Hyperscale / Hyperconverge

Product Features

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Form Factor

2U rackmount supporting up to 2 or 4 server nodes

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Memory

16 DIMM slots per node, up to 4TB DDR5-6400

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Power

3600W/2200W Redundant Titanium Level (96%) Power Supplies

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Management

Open Industry Standard IPMI, Redfish APIs, Full Suite of Management Software Including SuperCloud Composer

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Processors

Dual Intel® Xeon® 6 processors up to 330W per node

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Drives

Up to 8 E3.S, 6 2.5” NVMe/SAS or 6 3.5” NVMe/SAS drive bays

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Input/Output

Up to 2 PCIe 5.0 slots and 1 PCIe 5.0 AIOM networking slot per node

Resources

Supermicro X14 Servers Optimized for Data Center Workloads – Incorporating Intel® Xeon® 6 Series Processors

Supermicro X14 Servers Give Users the Flexibility to Match Workloads to Systems

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Supermicro X13 Servers Show 82% Performance Gain & Powerful Virtual Machines for an Agile & Efficient Virtualized Future

Supermicro X13 Servers Demonstrate Excellent Performance for HCI

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Intel's Sapphire Rapids Finally Here! Feat. Supermicro SYS-221BT-DNTR

By Level1Techs -

Inside our BigTwin SYS-221BT-DNTR, powered by Intel 4th Gen Xeon Processors you will find thoughtful clever Engineering from Supermicro as we come to expect from Intel's new platform. See performance benchmarking results that make this server a very attractive option.

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Supermicro SuperMinute: X12 BigTwin Server

Introducing the Supermicro BigTwin® multi-node architecture supporting 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Now you can have a totally-optimized server for enterprise-class Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Software-Defined Storage, and Content Delivery that require high availability, performance, and density for a Better, Faster, and Greener solution.

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Supermicro BigTwin Intel Xeon Ice Lake Edition 2U4N Hands-on

By Will Taillac -

Today we are looking at the Supermicro SYS-220BT-HNTR, also known as one of the company’s “BigTwin” models, that Patrick recently got some hands-on time with at Supermicro headquarters.

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Construct Optimized IT Solutions With The Supermicro X12 Twin Family Of Multi-Node Servers

Select From the Twin Family of Multi-Node Servers to Exactly Match Workload Requirements with Superior Functionality and Efficiency

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Innovations in High Density Computing in HPC - Supermicro SC21 TECHTalk with IDC

Presented by Luis Garcia, Director, Blade Solutions;Supermicro Michael Ocampo, Product Manager, Supermicro; Peter Rutten, Research Director, Infrastructure Systems, IDC

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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Utilizes High-Performance Supermicro A+ Servers to Advance Scientific Research

Supermicro BigTwin® Systems Create the Most Powerful Open Science Computer in Argentina

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Nitrado Delivers Exceptional Performance to Gamers Worldwide with the Latest Supermicro and Intel® Technology

Computing Infrastructure, Reducing Costs, and Increasing Engagement

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Supermicro TECHTalk: Highly-Configurable Multi-Node Servers

Supermicro's extremely popular BigTwin® and TwinPro multi-node servers are now even better with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and PCIe Gen 4. In this TECHTalk, we will highlight the range of CPU, memory, storage, and networkining options available on these highly versatile systems.

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Mission Critical Server Solutions

Supermicro's Comprehensive Server, Storage and Networking product lines Optimized for IT, Data Center, Embedded, HPC and Cloud Computing and Supporting 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake)

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A+ BigTwin® Server Performance for OpenFOAM and WRF with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC­™ Processors

Supermicro A+ BigTwin2U 4-node systems with dual 3rd Gen AMD EPYCprocessors are an ideal solution for most demanding data center and HPC applications. The flagship BigTwin reduces the complexity of compute clusters by doubling the density over the traditional single-node system. This whitepaper demonstrates the performance and node scalability results of popular HPC applications such as OpenFOAM and Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, running on Supermicro's latest A+ BigTwin server with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™7713 processors.

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Twin Product Family – Leading Multi-node Architectures

The Supermicro Twin Family represents a revolution in Green Computing designed to support customers' critical applications and also reduce Data Center TCO to help preserve the environment.

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Supermicro Storage Summit: Enabling Technologies for HCI

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) allows for the deployment of flexible virtual cloud solutions for enterprises of any size. This session will include presentations of Supermicro's optimized servers and Intel® Optane™ SSD technology that power advanced HCI implementations. Intel and Supermicro will also discuss how HCI software architectures and rack-level solutions leverage the capabilities of their hardware.

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5G Core Terabit Traffic Demo

This video segment dives into how Supermicro’s 5G Core Reference Architecture topped the charts for Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) User Plane Throughput per 1RU. In partnership with Intel, Supermicro was able to optimize CPU utilization and set record breaking 5G performance, while improving efficiency and predictability with lower latency and jitter.

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Solution: Red Hat® OpenShift®

The Supermicro and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform solution offers integrated hardware, software and support packages built with Kubernetes which provide agile deployment and management ofcontainers in an on-premises, private, and hybrid cloud environment.

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Solution: Red Hat® OpenStack®

Supermicro and Red Hat OpenStack Platform solutions combine the power of Red Hat OpenStack Platform technology and industry leading compute, storage, and networking systems manufactured by Supermicro to deliver a foundation for building private, hybrid, or public IaaS cloud environments. It offers a highly scalable, fault-tolerant, production-ready, turnkey platform for running cloud-enabled workloads.

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CAPEX Savings and Performance Advantages of BigTwin's Memory Optimization

Performance testing results have shown 52% improvements on BigTwin in a 16 DIMM configuration over other comparable systems, which could have significant impact on real-world applications.

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Models

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Generation

  • X14(7)
  • X13(10)
  • X12(10)
  • H12(2)
  • X11(9)

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CPU Sockets per Node

  • 2 CPU Sockets(46)

Form Factors

  • 2U(46)

Multi-node Systems

  • 4 Nodes(34)
  • 2 Nodes(12)

Applications

  • High-Density Storage RAID Array(3)
  • Virtualized Big Data Analytics(3)
  • Scientific Virtualization(19)
  • Scale-Out Object Storage(5)
  • Scale-Out File Storage(3)

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GPUs per Node

  • 1 GPU(6)

DIMM Slots per Node

  • 24 DIMM Slots(14)
  • 16 DIMM Slots(32)

Storage Interfaces

  • NVMe (Native)(42)
  • SAS (Native)(24)
  • SAS3(1)
  • SATA (Native)(24)

Drive Bays per Node

  • 12 Drive Bays(6)
  • 8 Drive Bays(1)
  • 6 Drive Bays(32)
  • 3 Drive Bays(7)

Drive Form Factors

  • 2.5"(32)
  • 3.5"(13)
  • E3.S 1T(1)

Redundant Power Supply

  • No(41)
  • No(5)

Special Features

  • Global SKU(2)

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SYS-222BT-DNRX142U2 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs12 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-222BT-DNR
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SYS-222BT-HERX142U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs8 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-222BT-HER
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SYS-222BT-HNRX142U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-222BT-HNR
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SYS-222BT-HNC8RX142U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-222BT-HNC8R
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SYS-222BT-HNC9RX142U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-222BT-HNC9R
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SYS-622BT-DNC8RX142U2 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-622BT-DNC8R
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SYS-622BT-HNC8RX142U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs3 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-622BT-HNC8R
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SYS-221BT-HNRX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-HNR
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SYS-221BT-DNTRX132U2 Nodes2 CPUs1 GPU16 DIMMs12 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-DNTR
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SYS-221BT-HNTRX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-HNTR
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SYS-621BT-DNTRX132U2 Nodes2 CPUs1 GPU16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-621BT-DNTR
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SYS-621BT-HNTRX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs3 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-621BT-HNTR
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SYS-221BT-DNC8RX132U2 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs12 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-DNC8R
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SYS-221BT-HNC8RX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-HNC8R
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SYS-221BT-HNC9RX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-221BT-HNC9R
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SYS-621BT-DNC8RX132U2 Nodes2 CPUs1 GPU16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-621BT-DNC8R
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SYS-621BT-HNC8RX132U4 Nodes2 CPUs16 DIMMs3 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-621BT-HNC8R
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SYS-220BT-HNTRX122U4 Nodes2 CPUs2 GPUs16 DIMMs6 DrivesAIOMRedundantSYS-220BT-HNTR
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