Conga - B - a series Servers

Conga - B - a series - a line of servers on the module COM Express Type 7.

2018: Increase in support of RAM up to 96 GB in conga-B7AC

On December 11, 2018 the congatec company announced what servers on the modules conga-B7AC support up to 96 GB of memory of DDR4 SO-DIMM on 3 sockets. It twice exceeds the amount of memory supported earlier and sets an important reference boundary for projects on the basis of COM Express of type 7 as memory is one of the most important levers of performance for technologies of the built-in boundary servers.

As noted in congatec, this jump of performance became possible thanks to the fact that the processor family of Intel Atom C3000 supports 32 GB of SO-DIMM. For December, 2018 servers on modules with capacity of high-speed memory 2400 megatransactions per second are already available and can be ordered with as support of ECC and without it.

"Further development of technology the server - on - the module is important extremely for the built-in peripheral computer systems. However ensuring maximum capacity and capacity of the server at extremely compact form factor only 125 x 95 mm in size for them requires the OZU permanent expansion". Martin Danzer, the director of product management in congatec company

The large volume of memory is necessary for server applications as the fastest method of a read and write of values from databases is their full load in memory. The more databases, the amount of memory is necessary more. There is a set of applications of databases in the field of the built-in peripheral computer systems, such as network devices for delivery content in applications video surveillances, the gateways IoT or servers OPC UA in the field of automation needing proposed solutions. Big RAM is also the good intermediate buffer for instant analytics Big Data as it allows to save only the smaller already previously processed results on volume. Servers on which it is placed much virtual machines also receive benefit from the doubled amount of memory. Thanks to 96 GB of the RAM for 12 virtual machines well on 8 GB of the RAM in each section, and this best value for standard installations OS Linux or Windows, is considered in congatec.

Servers on the modules conga-B7AC with RAM to 96 GB for December, 2018 are already commercially available to delivery and include support of personal integration for OEM manufacturing, they can be ordered in the following configurations:

2017: Release of conga-B7AC

On September 12, 2017 the congatec company announced release of the server on the module COM Express Type 7 on the Intel processor Atom C3000 - conga-B7AC.

Module of the conga-B7AC server, (2017)

Power consumption of the module is 11 W. Sixteen-nuclear server modules provide in real time network performance using four channels 10 GbE. A set of the offered functions of the server on the module conga-B7AC is intended for implementation of solutions of the modular industrial microservers steady against conditions of the environment of use of telecommunication and network equipment:

• low-level cells of network,
• factory gateways
• information storage systems.

They can be developed in the temperature range from -40 °C to +85 °C. The server based on the PICMG specification on the module COM Express 3.0 conga-B7AC is suitable for passively cooled built-in user constructions executed on the basis of the available standardized construction blocks.

The distributed built-in boundary devices maintaining capacity in 10 GbE can be used as small cells for LTE networks of the next generation, nodal devices for the cyber-virtual ("smart") plants or local data processing centers for sensor networks. For the successful solution of these tasks they need to process large volumes of information within protocols of TCP/IP and to have sufficient capacity for a possibility of preserving of data in real time. Such boundary data processing centers, thanks to the mnogoyadernost, open huge opportunities for users, but at the same time they have smaller data processing rate in terms of one core as they, as a rule, process packets, smaller by the sizes. It is that scope where the servers on the module executed based on the Intel processors Atom C3000 are addition to a portfolio of servers on the modules of the company executed based on Intel Xeon processors D. Our modules COM Express 3.0 conga-B7AC allow to expand considerably network transmission capacity and to increase possibilities of data storage in remote areas, and with smaller costs and lower energy consumption. Martin Danzer, the product management manager in congatec company

Servers on the module COM Express Type 7 are applications with the put redundancy. It does them ready to technologies of communication and virtualization in real time. Additional opportunities for the distributed built-in boundary servers are reached due to use of their cloud services of API. Managers of data processing centers can control remotely a system status, energy consumption and to obtain necessary information on operating conditions of the equipment. With support up to 20 PCI Express (PCIe) lines, the new servers the modules COM Express Type 7 executed based on the Intel processors Atom C3000 also provide the minimum delay for data storage devices, allow to create communication lines with quick access for different types of sensor networks, remote devices and industrial Ethernet networks.

Set of functional features

• CCPs are supported
  • Intel Xeon D1577 (16 x 1.3 / 2.1 GHz, 24MB cache, 45 W)
  • Intel Xeon D1548 (8 x 2.0 / 2.6 GHz, 12MB cache, 45 W)
  • Intel Xeon D1527 (4 x 2.2 / 2.7 GHz, 6MB cache, 35 W)
  • Intel Pentium D1509 (2 x 1.5 GHz, 3MB cache, 19 W)
  • Intel Pentium D1508 (2 x 2.2 / 2.6 GHz, 3MB cache, 25 W )
  • Intel Xeon D1559 (12 x 1.5 / 2.1 GHz, 18MB cache, 45 W)
  • Intel Xeon D1539 (8 x 1.6 / 2.2 GHz, 12MB cache, 35 W)
  • Intel Xeon D1529 (4 x 1.3 GHz, 6MB cache, 20 W)
  • Intel Pentium D1519 (4 x 1.5 / 2.1 GHz, 6MB cache, 25 W)

• DRAM - up to 3 SO-DIMM sockets for modules of memory of DDR4 with a capacity of 16 GByte everyone (48 GByte) with support of 2400 MT/s|ECC and non-ECC supported
• Chipset
  • Integrated in SoC

• Ethernet
  • 1x Intel I210AT /IT Gigabit Ethernet Controller|2x 10GbE with KR interface support - the 10GbE PHY must be implemented on the carrier board
  • I/O Interfaces
  • 24 x PCI Express GEN 3.0 lanes
  • 8 x PCI Express 2.0

• * 4 x USB 2.0
  • 2 x SATA III
  • LPC bus
  • SPI
  • I²C bus
  • 2 x UART

• congatec Board Controller
  • Multi Stage Watchdog|non-volatile User Data Storage|Manufacturing and Board Information|Board Statistics|LVDS backlight control I²C bus (fast mode, 400 kHz, multi-master)|Power Loss Control

• embedded BIOS Features
• OEM Logo
• OEM CMOS Defaults
• Flash Update
• AMI Aptio UEFI
• Security
  • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) optional. Hash and RSA algorithms, key lengths up to 2,048 bits, real random number generator

• Power Management
  • ACPI 5 .0 compliant, Smart Battery Management

• Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise

• * Microsoft Windows 8.1
• * Microsoft Windows 7
• * Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• * Fedora 22
• * Ubuntu 14.10
• * CentOS 6.6 & 7.1
• * FreeBSD 10.3 & 11
• * VMware
• * Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012

• * Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• * RHEL 6.6 & 7.1
• * SuSE 11 SP4 & 12 SP1
  • Yocto v.2.0 Kernel 4.1
  • Wind River VxWorks 7

• * ESXi
  • RTS Hypervisor