Elbrus 4.4

Elbrus 4.4 is a series of the servers working at a basis of the Elbrus-4C processors developed by "INEUM named after I. Brook" in cooperation with MCST. According to developers, "Elbrus 4.4" is the first server created in Russia on the basis of the processor of the Russian development.

2017

Testing of Smart IDReader on 5 computer systems Elbrus

The Smart Engines company in December, 2017 held comparative testing of Smart IDReader on 5 computer systems with processors Elbrus. During tests possibilities of complexes for solving of tasks of computer vision were compared.

5 different devices on the basis of processors Elbrus, including Elbrus server 4.4 participated in testing. Read more here.

Softswitch ECSS-10 is ported on the microprocessor Elbrus platform

On July 24, 2017 the Eltex company announced start of a HSS of ECSS-10 Softswitch on the 64-bit microprocessor Elbrus platform.

With the assistance of JSC MCST Eltex completed porting of a HSS of Softswitch ECSS-10. It is intended for the organizations of communication systems of the operator and corporate level, on the basis of technology of packet switching, on 64-bit microprocessor architecture Elbrus^[1].

Upon termination of works testing of the solution using the Elbrus-4.4 servers on processors Elbrus-4C is held (1891VM8Ya). Tests confirmed design characteristics of a complex for the selected complete set:

• system performance — from 25 calls per second;
• subscriber capacity — from 25 thousand;
• support of video calls;
• transcoding of media flows;
• scaling option;
• possibility of reservation in the active-active mode;
• possibility of creation of systems with support of geographical reservation.

2015

The first sales

In November, 2015 at the Fourth National Supercomputer Forum (NSKF-2015) the representative of MCST Konstantin Trushkin told TAdviser about start of sales of the first servers based on the Elbrus processor. According to him, since production launch in March about 20 servers were implemented so far. As much again the company expects to sell until the end of 2015. In more detail according to the link.

Beginning of production

On March 24, 2015 the developer of computer systems "INEUM named after I. Brook" announced the beginning of production of servers of own development "Elbrus 4.4"^[2].

Works on the server were carried out in cooperation with MCST Ltd, developers of Elbrus processors.

Characteristics

The architecture "Elbrus 4.4" is based on use of four (or, optionally, two) the quad-core Elbrus-4C processors executed in topology of 65 nanometers.

The Elbrus 4.4 server is executed in the 19-inch body by 1RU height with supply capacity in body 2RU and 3RU. It provides performance to 200 Gflops in dive and supports up to 384 GB of RAM.

The hardware and software system "Elbrus 4.4" is comparable on the power and cost with a HP server of Proliant DL360 HPM Gen9.

The four-processor server can be completed with one or two controllers of peripheral devices (KPI) on MT chipset Elbrus for expansion of opportunities of input-output of data. Use of the body of small height allows to achieve placement density at the level of blade servers.

Equipment:

• The RAM with the adjusting code (ECC) - 48 GB of DDR3-1600;
• Silicon Motion SM718 video subsystem;
• disk subsystems from 3 to 8 disks SATA 2.0 and a possibility of the software RAID organization, memory of CompactFlash (for system operation of a binary traslyation of Intel x86 codes);
• input/output ports - 2xPCI-Express x8, 2 x PCI, 8 x SATA 2.0, 2 x Gigabit Ethernet, 8 x USB 2.0, RS-232 – 1 channel external, 1 internal.

"Elbrus 4.4" can be used for assembly a blade clusters. The Interconnect network of class 10G with topology the 2D torus with a capacity up to 64 servers is developed for consolidation of servers in a cluster in PJSC INEUM.

At the time of the beginning of production servers can work at Elbrus only running Elbrus OS based on Linux kernel. Konstantin Trushkin from MCST told TAdviser that as of fall of 2015 his company conducts works with several producers Linux distribution kits which expressed readiness to move the distribution kits to the Elbrus platform.

Producers of component parts for the server

Assembly of motherboards of the Elbrus servers is executed by Federal State Unitary Enterprise PO Oktyabr where for March 24, 2015 in production there is an Elbrus 4.4 series in number of several tens units.

Information that at the time of the beginning of production the Elbrus-4C processors with topology of 65 nanometers which are used in servers are issued on Taiwan at^[3]appears in open sources^[4]. The processor model previous Elbrus-4C - Elbrus-2CM with topology of 90 nanometers - is issued at the Mikron plant. Micron says^[5]that their company is going to start serial production of chips with topology of 65 nanometers in the first half of 2016.

In MCST the name of factory is not disclosed, and about servers say that the agreement on their assembly is reached with different producers.

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