Following the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in the United States, Baidu held a "Wen Xin Yi Yan" press conference, triggering a new round of artificial intelligence craze. The rise of this craze has further stimulated the high growth of computing power demand and promoted the development of data centers towards high technology, high computing power, high energy efficiency, and high security. As one of the basic hardware facilities of the data center, the server's high scalability and easy management can accelerate the construction and development of the data center.
The stable, easy-to-operate and maintain OCP3.0 network card has not only become an important hardware configuration of the server, but also an important standard for rapid delivery of the entire cabinet. The OCP3.0 network card with its own NCSI function has become the new favorite in the industry.
Take LRES3007PF-OCP as an example. This is an OCP3.0 four-optical port 10G SFP+ Ethernet network adapter with NCSI function independently developed by LR-LINK based on the Intel XL710 main control solution. When the OCP3.0 network card is inserted into the server motherboard, the server's BMC chip can use the shared network port on the network card chip for out-of-band management through NCSI, releasing CPU resources and effectively improving CPU utilization.
It is worth noting that NCSI is an out-of-band management bus protocol based on the physical bus RMII. Defining an NCSI protocol based on the RMII bus can reduce physical pins. Using an OCP3.0 network card with NCSI function, NCSI technology can be used to enable the management system and the host system to share the host physical network port. Management operations and business processing can be performed simultaneously through one network port, simplifying networking, optimizing resource utilization, and further Promote the construction of green and efficient new data centers and accelerate the realization of the "double carbon" goal.
LR-LINK COP3.0 network cards all comply with the industry OCP3.0 design specification (SFF) and are compatible with Huawei Super Fusion, AMD, Lenovo, Dell, HP and other brand servers.
Data shows that my country's server market will reach US$27.34 billion in 2022 and will increase to US$30.8 billion in 2023. Servers accelerate iterative upgrades, and performance such as CPU computing power, operational reliability, data throughput capabilities, and management and maintenance continue to improve. LR-LINK gradually lists NCSI function as a standard function of OCP3.0 series network cards, which can meet the current and long-term requirements of the server market for network traffic and data offloading, processing and virtualization, big data computing, cloud computing, etc. demand to help data centers achieve the "four highs" development.