Solve storage challenges Gigabyte 8ICMT server board to help out Zhengzhou Ding Yi

With the rapid growth of enterprise storage bottlenecks popularity of the network, data storage, and integrated storage and IP networks have taken advantage of iSCSI technologies out and mature. IP SAN as a management simple and cost-effective network storage architecture, have been accepted by more and more in various fields and industries. But the question is, has been, IP SAN applications confined to high-performance computer systems application environment to industry and the value is not sufficient to meet the needs of users and the market. In response to this trend, the National High Performance Computer Engineering Technology Research Center will be the first application in the high-end server environment IP SAN technology applications ported to the PC environment, and for the field of education developed a public computer application environment management system -PC SAN.edu and other storage products to fill the domestic network storage technology and product gaps. Not only by domestic peer recognition, but also by foreign counterparts praise, some storage technology has reached the leading domestic and international advanced level. Effectively promoted the progress of China's storage industry, and give users a unique value. Among them, the PC SAN National High Performance Computer Engineering Technology Research Center solutions as a key component of server motherboards - Gigabyte 8ICMT, using a combination of Intel E7221 + ICH6R north and south bridge, supporting single LGA775 socket Pentium 4 processor, maximum 4GB Dual Channel DDRII specification capacity memory, integrated Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82541) and PCI-Express interface to bring a powerful I / O throughput and support capabilities, to achieve on-demand, centralized storage, rapid deployment, dynamic mapping , IP addresses and other data storage applications automatically assigned value. Business needs of national high performance computer engineering technology research center based in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology, is one of the only countries in the field of computers set up five engineering and technology research center. As one of the storage industry's domestic authoritative research institutes, it is also in the storage industry one of the earliest research institutions IP network storage system based engineering center not only has a series of networked storage systems IP-based, and according to different areas, different The practical application of industry and demand for tailored industry solutions, to create "high-quality storage." Demand trends for the development and IP SAN, the engineering center will be the first application in the high-end server environment IP SAN technology into the PC application environments. PC SAN is a network-based storage of new computing environment management system, using the global standard communication protocol TCP / IP, will be on the storage management server by a high-speed Internet connection in the network storage resources on all stored in the server a plurality of virtual network drive mapping to the client machine. It uses virtual memory technology, centralized data storage, network drives on demand, with snapshots and rapid deployment of technology, simple and fast network hard drive distribution and software installation; dynamic mapping through the client and different network disk, so that the client able to change the role of demand, dynamic scheduling and better is a combination of computing and storage resources to meet changing needs. Wherein, PC SAN.edu as PC SAN products in one, is designed for the application of the education industry and tailored to networked storage products. It is the basic functionality of a PC SAN, IP SAN technology and through the use of snapshot technology, first applied to the high-end server IP SAN storage technology into an ordinary computer environments, and add a unique reservation system, System Restore and automatically assign IP addresses and other functions, to effectively address the field of education in public computer environment issues at present. Applicable to all types of public school computer environment, such as multimedia classrooms, electronic classrooms, public computer room. At the same time, with the down-end IP SAN technology, the solution to the server application environment also posed a challenge, for example, the performance of the motherboard, CPU, memory and hard drive, and so on. Solution PC SAN is a network-based storage of new computing environment management system. It uses virtual memory technology, centralized data storage and network drives on demand; with snapshots and rapid deployment of technology, simple and fast network hard drive distribution and software installation; dynamic mapping through the client with a different network disk, so the client You can demand change roles, be better dynamic scheduling, on-demand combination of computing and storage resources to meet changing application requirements. This solution, including storage management server, a network storage device, iATA cards, system installation CD, etc., in which the typical server is configured to Pentium 4 3.0GHz PC servers, 1G memory: can support clients running 1-30 including Windows, Linux, including all major operating systems. As the cornerstone of building the building server, server board is a top priority. According to the demand characteristics of the National High Performance Computer Engineering Technology Research Center PC SAN solutions, GIGABYTE provides a cost-effective server motherboard - Gigabyte 8ICMT, successful in helping Engineering Center, the high-end IP SAN technology into the PC application environment, filled Blank domestic network storage technology and products. Gigabyte 8ICMT using a dedicated server chipset Intel E7221 + South Bridge combination ICH6R support single LGA775 socket Pentium 4 processor, up to 4GB of dual-channel DDRII specification capacity memory and PCI-Express interface. Since the motherboard Southbridge adopted ICH6R, therefore not only supports four Serial ATA interfaces group but also supports two modes of SATA RAID 0, 1 function. In scalability, the Gigabyte 8ICMT provides three PCI, 1 PCI-Express x8,1 根 root PCI-Express x1 and two pairs of DIMM memory slots, the other board through the onboard chip provides Gigabit Ethernet and Audio output support functions. In the actual test, hardware environment 8ICMT Gigabyte motherboard, P4 3.0CPU, 1G DDR2 memory, 80G IDE system disk, 250G SATA * 4 Raid 10 data disks; the operating system is FC4 32 bit (full install), has carried out dd, iozone, rigorous testing disktest three test tools have made a good test results, which can satisfy the performance requirements of PC SAN solutions. Zhengzhou Ding Yi Information Technology Co., Ltd. Contact: Mao Xiaogang Tel: 0371-63551708 Address: Zhengzhou City Cultural Road 68 information technology market Branch Building 1406-1409 Website: http: //www.1658.tv Web site: http: / /www.rzserver.cn