Computer Systems

Mass storage and flexibility in 2U and additional OS Kernal Disk

RS520-E8-RS12-E V2 is equipped with 12 SAS/SATA 3.5-inch disk drive bays. The hot-swappable design provides non-stop high availability, making short work of maintenance. RS520-E8-RS12-E V2 also offers great freedom when it comes to the choice of operating system drive type and placement, with M.2 slot available, and two hot-swappable 2.5-inch SSD bays.

Powered by AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors

The AMD EPYC™ 7002 processor features the world's first 7nm datacenter-design and a PCI Express® 4.0-capable x86 server processor with up to 2x the performance and 4x the floating point capability versus the previous 7001 generation. With support for up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 8-channels DDR4 3200, 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and 225W of thermal design power (TDP), this processor is also designed with encryption features in memory and virtualization for security assurance.

Accelerate your workloads

To effectively manage the storage demands of growing amounts of data, RS500A-E10-RS12U supports for up to twelve 2.5-inch hot-swap SATA, SAS and NVMe drives in a 1U chassis for flexible expansion for storage. One M.2 slot accommodates 22110-size SSDs with support for additional OS storage and PCIe Gen3 x4 bandwidth - 5.3X faster than 6 Gb/s SATA III - for faster boot speeds.

Redundant Platinum PSU support

650W 80 Plus Platinum power supplies with 92%+ efficiency directly reduce operating costs and capital expenses.

Rich I/O expansion with PCIe 4.0

PCIe 4.0 offers a 16 GT/s that doubles the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 and delivers lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility. RS500A-E10-RS12U features one PCIe x16 lane and one PCIe 4.0 x8 lane to allow optional HBA/RAID, NIC and InfiniBand (IB) cards for a diverse array of storage and networking applications.

Ultrafast Connectivity for HPC Applications

RS500A-E10-RS12U features two embedded Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports up to 100G or higher interconnect speeds with the addition of a PCIe 4.0 (Gen 4 x16 link) for its OCP 2.0 mezzanine card for HPC applications that require high-bandwidth, low-latency network support to connect multiple nodes and clusters. ASUS offers an authorized validation OCP mezzanine card for these models.

Thermal Radar 2.0 for energy efficiency

Featuring two innovative intelligent detection technologies and multi-fan zone design, ASUS Thermal Radar 2.0 places different sensors on the CPU, GPU, DIMM, HDD and in other areas to collect localized heating information to designate dedicated fan flow automatically to reduce consumption of overall fan capacity. Additionally, the multi-fan zone design enables multiple fan curves for different zones to reduce operating time and cost required for manual adjustments and effectively enhances system reliability and thermal efficiency.

Performance Boost technology

ASUS servers feature exclusive Performance Boost technology to achieve optimal server performance and agility by tuning servers to match workloads, allowing you to gain greater control of your server environment. This technology improves workload throughput by maximizing processor frequency and boost power. It's ideal for time-sensitive applications such as financial services or data center operations. In the BIOS you can choose from pre-configured server profiles optimized for specific workloads, maximizing overall performance and reducing server-configuration time.

AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors

The latest AMD EPYC™ 7003 series processors are the new standard for modern data centers. AMD was first with X86 multi-chip-module server CPUs and continues to innovate with the 3rd Gen EPYC processors, including up to 32MB of L3 cache per core and synchronized fabric and memory-clock speeds designed for improved performance.

PCIe 4.0 Ready

PCI Express® (PCIe®) 4.0 delivers 16 GT/s bandwidth, which is double the speed of PCIe 3.0, offering lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility. ASUS RS700A-E11 servers are PCIe 4.0 ready to support a diverse array of graphics, storage and networking - enabling flexible scalability for demanding or increasing workloads.

GPU and FPGA Support

ASUS RS700A-E11 servers feature a powerful GPU architecture that supports one dual-slot GPU such as NVIDIA A100 in one 1U system to enable easy scale-up in order to meet the demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), and to securely run workloads in virtualized environments.

ASUS AMD EPYC 7003-based series are Xilinx Alveo-qualified servers to provide optimized acceleration for workloads across cloud and on-premises data centers, and for hybrid cloud environments in financial computing, machine learning, computational storage, and data search and analytics.

CPU-balanced Architecture

The new AMD EPYC 7003 processors excel at providing full features and functionality for both dual-socket and single-socket platforms, but our new servers ASUS is introducing an CPU-balanced architecture to enable secure and optimal CPU-performance efficiency.

This architecture extends the full bandwidth to either dual- or single-CPU configurations, enabling more computing capability and much-improved overall power efficiency for compute-intensive workloads. This architecture allows customers to take full advantage of bandwidth capabilities of the dual-CPU architecture with a single CPU, while offering the flexibility to upgrade later with the addition of a second CPU.

Modular design

ASUS RS700A-E11 servers offer a flexible, modular design to enable easy scale-up of configurations to meet increasing data-center workloads.

Scalable Storage Solution

ASUS RS700A-E11 servers feature scalable storage solutions to support maximum performance for data center flexibility, and enable industry-standard SAS/SATA/NVMe interfacing through Broadcom Tri-Mode RAID adapters for increased connectivity and security. Up to 12 all-flash NVMe drives on front panel enable extensive storage and high-throughput performance.

AMD EPYC™ 9004 single-processor 1U server that supports up to 24 DIMM, 16 NVMe, three PCIe® 5.0 slots, two M.2, OCP 3.0, two single-slot GPUs, and ASUS ASMB11-iKVM

KEY FEATURES

• Powerful performance:Powered by AMD EPYC 9004 processors with 96 Zen 4 cores, 12-channel, up to 4800 MHz DDR5 and support for a maximum TDP of up to 400 watts
• Scale-up storage and expansion design: Up to 12 all-flash NVMe drives on the front panel, 4 NVMe in middle bay, and 3 PCIe 5.0 slots for higher bandwidth and system upgrade
• Flexible networking module design:On-board LAN module, and OCP 3.0 module with PCIe 5.0 slot in rear panel for faster connectivity
• Advanced air cooling solution: Features enhanced volume air cooling (EVAC) heatsink for processors with higher TDP
• Enhanced IT-infrastructure management:ASUS ASMB11-iKVM remote control with ASPEED AST2600, ASUS Control Center IT management software and hardware-level Root-of-Trust solution
• Read for AI and HPC workloads:Up to two single-slot GPUs.

PCIe 5.0 Ready | Faster storage, graphics and networking capabilities

PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) 5.0 delivers 32GT/s bandwidth, which is twice the speed of PCIe 4.0, and offers lower power consumption, better land scalability and backwards compatibility. ASUS servers are PCIe 5.0 ready with scalability design to satisfy the increasing workloads for modern data center.

AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors

The 9004 Series EPYC CPUs amplifies the AMD history of x86 architecture innovations and record-breaking performance with next generation 5nm technology as well as introducing support for high performant DDR5 DIMMs and fast PCIe^® Gen 5 I/O. EPYC 9004 CPUs support 12 memory channels with 2 DIMMs/channel capability, delivering the resources needed for memory hungry AI, ML, HPC, and large in-memory computations.

World Records Leadership

ASUS holds the most amount of records in dual-socket (2P) and single-socket (1P) on SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark and dominate the computing performance. These top performance results provide a useful insight into compute-intensive workloads on different computer systems, enabling our customers to reduce complexity, tackle challenging workloads and accelerate system validations.

ASUS servers feature Performance Boost technology to achieve the best server performance and agility by tuning servers to match the requirements of workloads, letting you gain greater control of your server environment. This technology improves workload throughput by maximizing processor frequency and boost power, ideal for timesensitive applications such as financial services or data center operations.

Core Optimizer

Maximizes the processor frequency in multi-core operations, avoiding frequency shifting for reduced latency.

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AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors

The latest AMD EPYC™ 7003 series processors are the new standard for modern data centers. AMD was first with X86 multi-chip-module server CPUs and continues to innovate with the 3rd Gen EPYC processors, including up to 32MB of L3 cache per core and synchronized fabric and memory-clock speeds designed for improved performance.

PCIe 4.0 Ready

PCI Express® (PCIe®) 4.0 delivers 16 GT/s bandwidth, which is double the speed of PCIe 3.0, offering lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility. ASUS RS700A-E11 servers are PCIe 4.0 ready to support a diverse array of graphics, storage and networking - enabling flexible scalability for demanding or increasing workloads.

GPU and FPGA Support

ASUS RS700A-E11 servers feature a powerful GPU architecture that supports one dual-slot GPU such as NVIDIA A100 in one 1U system to enable easy scale-up in order to meet the demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), and to securely run workloads in virtualized environments.

ASUS AMD EPYC 7003-based series are Xilinx Alveo-qualified servers to provide optimized acceleration for workloads across cloud and on-premises data centers, and for hybrid cloud environments in financial computing, machine learning, computational storage, and data search and analytics.

CPU-balanced Architecture

The new AMD EPYC 7003 processors excel at providing full features and functionality for both dual-socket and single-socket platforms, but our new servers ASUS is introducing an CPU-balanced architecture to enable secure and optimal CPU-performance efficiency.