My new favorite over-the-top motherboard: Supermicro with 96 DIMM slots

[dba]

You can never have too many PCIe slots, or too much RAM, I say. Supermicro seems to agree, and proffers their latest quad-Xeon monster motherboard in response: the X10QBi:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/4048/SYS-4048B-TRFT.cfm

This beast, which of course requires a custom Supermicro chassis, features quad Xeon E7 CPUs that'll cost you the same as a small car and - here's the impressive part - 96 DIMM slots and 11 PCIe 3 slots. All of a sudden my quad Xeon E5 database machine starts looking pale by comparison...

 

[Patrick]

You can never have too many PCIe slots, or too much RAM, I say. Supermicro seems to agree, and proffers their latest quad-Xeon monster motherboard in response: the X10QBi:

Supermicro | Products | SuperServer | 4U | 4048B-TRFT

This beast, which of course requires a custom Supermicro chassis, features quad Xeon E7 CPUs that'll cost you the same as a small car and - here's the impressive part - 96 DIMM slots and 11 PCIe 3 slots. All of a sudden my quad Xeon E5 database machine starts looking pale by comparison...

Quad Xeon E5 will have more PCIe lanes than Quad E7. "Rumor" has it Intel needed to lock on the E7 design over 18 months ago and the need for PCIe lanes was not as great back then. Quad E5 will be 160 lanes while Quad E7 will be 128.

BTW for those wondering here is the system:

and the motherboard:

 

[AERuffy]

for $50k you too can have this beast with

4x E7-8893 CPU's
1TB Crucial Ram

Build 4U Rack Server Supermicro® SuperServer 4048B-TRFT Quad Xeon® E7 SATA Series 4U Rack Server

 

[Clownius]

Only 1TB RAM? Heck you may as well start with 3TB if your that crazy and 48SSD's

 

[Diavuno]

the barebone is more then some make in a year. but its oozing awesome!

too bad computers dont pull ladies or I'd be THE MAN!

I just had a meeting with my team, including the hardware leased to clients with are closer to a TB of memory then none!

Ironically I could put all our internal stuff on a new atom with 16-32 GB ram, and that includes my excess silly VM's!

 

[PersonalJ]

the barebone is more then some make in a year. but its oozing awesome!

too bad computers dont pull ladies or I'd be THE MAN!

I just had a meeting with my team, including the hardware leased to clients with are closer to a TB of memory then none!

Ironically I could put all our internal stuff on a new atom with 16-32 GB ram, and that includes my excess silly VM's!

If you make enough money with computers you can pull lots of ladies

 

[Diavuno]

If you make enough money with computers you can pull lots of ladies

A womans touch is easy to get with a flashy car.

finding one with more going on between her ears.... money cannot buy that

 

[HWGeek]

A womans touch is easy to get with a flashy car.

finding one with more going on between her ears.... money cannot buy that

Doesn't hurt either

 

[gigatexal]

for $50k you too can have this beast with

4x E7-8893 CPU's
1TB Crucial Ram

Build 4U Rack Server Supermicro® SuperServer 4048B-TRFT Quad Xeon® E7 SATA Series 4U Rack Server

I'd rather have a BMW M2 and drool over these online instead.

 

[Diavuno]

Forget the beemer, that's a down payment on a house!

 

[gigatexal]

Eh already got a house though another rental might help me afford the M2.

Still a sick board though.

 

[HWGeek]

I'd rather have a BMW M2 and drool over these online instead.

There's a million things you could do with this board and only one you could do with an M2!

 

[gigatexal]

There's a million things you could do with this board and only one you could do with an M2!

Oh I know, I know. You could launch a startup with that system and a colo. Win all sorts of F@H acoolades, donate it, or rent time on it... Or, or, you could grin like a silly idiot all day long driving the M2. I'd pick the M2.

 

[William]

Even tho this picture has made it around the web, not sure how.
Hopefully this will show back up here soon.

 

[gigatexal]

Dimms on dimms on dimms man that's a lot of memory. Imagine if it was all xpoint stuff

 

[William]

Yes this can hold a lot of DIMM's that's for sure.

 

[Boddy]

... Or, or, you could grin like a silly idiot ....

are you referring to your profile pic?

just kidding.

I think I'd rather spend the $50K developing a software platform for collaborator project to make the world a better place.

I think it would give me more kudos than a hot lady or BMW.

BTW I think I'd prefer a Telsa motorcar

 

[dba]

for $50k you too can have this beast with

4x E7-8893 CPU's
1TB Crucial Ram

Build 4U Rack Server Supermicro® SuperServer 4048B-TRFT Quad Xeon® E7 SATA Series 4U Rack Server

Somebody is going to pay $50K for these. That doesn't mean that you have to! eBay + ES CPUs + patience = big savings.

 

[Patriot]

Somebody is going to pay $50K for these. That doesn't mean that you have to! eBay + ES CPUs + patience = big savings.

Right?
If you are paying 50k you are doing it drastically wrong.
You could have a DL580gen8 decked out for that.

 

[Boddy]

Somebody is going to pay $50K for these. That doesn't mean that you have to! eBay + ES CPUs + patience = big savings.

Technology will get cheaper and new hardware will be developed to shift the paradigm.

Take PCI-e SSDs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors, maybe future motherboards will be a vast array of PCI-e or alternative slots.