it's not exactly unusual for us to dabble in the extreme the insane the top
of the line so when i say this might be one of the
fastest servers in the entire flippin
world i mean it you guys might remember when we took a look at liquids honey badger a
pci express card capable of housing eight NVMe ssds with speeds in the 28 to
30 Gigabyte per second range well
this box dubbed the badger den sent over
by our friends at liquid has five
honey badgers in it and can supposedly maintain sequential read speeds in
excess of 100 gigabytes per second that
is bites not bits holy
and today i get to put my grubby little fingers
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what do you mean you can't even see anything yet i can see the honey badgers
look at them one two three four five so that's a
total of 40 m.2 drives
40. so to put those numbers i threw at
you in the intro in perspective you could copy your average 4k blu-ray which
is somewhere between 50 and 100 gigabytes in a second or even less it
would happen so fast there wouldn't even be a Windows transfer dialog box it's
just moved bam just like that
now Windows isn't actually a great example
of how this performance would behave in the real life because i guarantee you
there is no way we will get anywhere near that figure on Windows regardless
of what the physical hardware can do but we're still going to try our best
i have Windows installed on here right yeah yeah it's the dumbest thing ever but let's do it
it's not even a Windows server Windows 10 pro it's not like it's
different look at these fans they got their own
built-in shots these are finger cutters ladies and gentlemen
3.3 amps these are 40 watt fans
40 watts wait what is that right what is
it 12 volts 3.3 amps yeah at full speed
one two three four five six this is
250 watts of fans
oh the whole thing comes out look at that that's my look they're hot
you got to be kidding me their hot swap here
and their hot swap there like what oh oh
i simply couldn't be arsed to replace just one fan at a time in this server so
i'll just you know what screw it we'll just toss it and we'll get a whole new
bank of fans yeah there we go that'll take care of it now we got 250 watts of
cooling let's go boys holy mackerel this has just got a plain
face plate got that liquid silk screening on there this is pretty
typical having like modules in the front of these things so if we didn't have all
the pci express slots full and we could actually allocate more lanes to the
front bays we could put another couple of these in here and have a total of 24
drives in the front of this thing and unlike our last attempt to put 24 nvmes
into a 2u server we've got
dual cpus this time so hopefully we got enough pci express and
enough CPU
yeah okay all right oh it's only a little broken there
just throw the whole thing away i'll get too mad to build me a new one no i
brokey look at this
what you're looking at here ladies and gentlemen is 128
CPU cores 256 threads so these are each
64 core epic processors and
32 sticks of 32 gigs of memory running
at 3 200 megahertz that is no mean feat
when you consider that both cpus are fully populated that is
fast memory for a server but as we learned before it makes a big difference
when you're trying to do something like this so wait what do you what even is that
64 128 256
holy sh that's a terabyte of RAM i'ma install me
some call of duty on RAM why not i could
so two of our honey badgers are fully kitted out with eight by four terabytes
so that's 32 terabytes of storage on a
single card the other three just have some poop mix of whatever ssds liquid
sent over so we are going to end up leaving some performance on the table
today but we'll talk about how we plan to rectify that in the future i should
pull out a badger so if you guys aren't familiar with what a honey badger looks like you can see it what the devil
connector is this this is so cool
so that's going to be a pci express 16x
interface i guess isn't it two yeah it's two of them no one's a blank on this one
i think because there's only one slot on this uh daughter board but i think it
probably uses the same connector as the other ones new the other ones definitely
use different connectors oh my goodness this thing is so cool this is a liquid
honey badger it's got a pci express 16x
gen 4 interface on the bottom and then a
very expensive pci express switch so
that it can use those 16 lanes to address eight
forex NVMe drives that are installed uh
you can kind of see them ah yes
here here here and well
basically under this heatsink and you might be asking yourselves why would
they do it in such an expensive manner when you can get cards like this that'll
take four m.2s for a fraction of the price and the reasons for this are
twofold number one because well
twice as many drives per slot hey who's going to say no to that it allowed us to
effectively double the capacity of this server without having to add well more
servers so that's good and number two a big part of liquid's jam aside from just
sending us cool toys to play with is what they call composable infrastructure
so instead of having servers that have all the CPU GPU and storage in one place
you'll have entire boxes that are just dedicated to one thing so if this was
one of our storage boxes then these resources could be allocated dynamically
through software to this server over here or that application or that
workload all on the fly and all at full
speed as if that server was built physically using the hardware here but
it's actually somewhere else in the data center pretty cool right finally how do we
power this thing look at that that's it that's 1400 flipping watts of
power and like a gum stick
wow a gum work here to kick ass and chew
bubble gum this is awful gum so it's not even pins
anymore it's like slabs of contacts
these are 12 volt only which is interesting so that means like those 12
volt only power supplies that i showed off that are coming to desktops for improved efficiency the server world
already beat us there they always get the cool stuff in the enterprise first
i'm waiting for my composable gaming rigs in my house so it's all on a rack
and i can just be like okay boy you don't need you know all the powerful GPU
i'll take that i'm playing among us right now you can have more GPU later
for your minecrafts or whatever all right let's put this thing back
together and fire it up are you ready click the button yeah i'm ready to click the button look it's even got lights on
the power supply as well okay three two one
i want to hear 250 watts of cooling fans
i did actually set the fans to the lowest noise level okay
oh hello here's that's not bad these are the high
performance fans too this is an upgrade oh yeah all right
oh there we go
it's not so bad that's the quietest oh that's not bad at
all where's the lid
oh that's not too bad yeah it's not terrible well we'll have
to cinebench it right oh 100
see you later oh my gosh
15 16
18 seconds ladies and gentlemen
like what what's the score 49 944
now you guys might look at that and go well gee that's uh doesn't seem that
great because a 32 core threadripper can do over half of that and that's only 32
instead of 128 cores but you got to understand guys this is
64 cores on a single CPU so you're going
to have some limitations in terms of the clock speeds you can run them at so
on that note why don't we see what this thing can do there's a couple options we could either
do storage spaces yeah cause right now
all the disks are individual oh my goodness
there's there's 40 what 42 there's 42 discs in
here to see how this goes we're going to create a gigantic striped volume across
16 4 terabyte drives Windows doesn't even manage to get past the first hurdle
which is combine the disk
hey there we go so this is just 16 four
terabyte drives yeah yeah 59 terabytes
all right crystal disk mark here we go let's pull up our task manager let's see
how hard we're gonna hit this CPU settings
so do uh threads do 32 threads 32qs 32 threads
that's it well two per drop i have so many threads though i'm giving it 32
threads for everything uh
sure yo this isn't even all the drives but
all right holy sh all right Windows
touche you touched me you touched what
that's what it means oh okay all right it's touched it's a fencing
thing oh we can see iops too oh oh that's pretty gross that's abysmal
yeah so lots of gigabytes per second but
our iops are actually terrible which means that there's
there's definitely you know bottlenecks
i think it's time for us to go to Linux you ready you're ready i'll see you in
10 minutes from this thing right yeah it takes a while to reboot
now we've got ubuntu server fired up and this is the part where things get a
little less visually interesting but i promise they're interesting
okay here's something visual let's just fire up age top hey look at that we got
we got too many CPU cores to fit on the
screen hey
all right Jake uh this is this is your time to your time to shine i'm just
gonna i'm gonna get a lysol wipe here so we pre-made a few scripts with liquid we
have sequential read sequential right 4k random 4k read are you ready for me to
do it yeah i'm waiting i want to see big numbers big numbers that's all i like i
just like big numbers even if they don't mean anything no i want big numbers that
mean that my dick is really big you know okay well i can't help you with that so
that's the write speed all right so 57
dang one blu-ray per second this is how my blue rays go that's a lot
of blue rays bro now now now when i have five blu-rays here we go
here we go here we go 91 gibby bites
98 gimme bites what
is crazy town you guys of course
while these numbers are very impressive they are not necessarily indicative of
real world performance if we were to set up some sort of software raid
configuration on these drives that's because these tests are set up to run
the i o for each NVMe drive on the CPU
that that NVMe drive is physically
actually connected to in the real world
very few applications are pneuma aware meaning that they don't really pay
attention to which cores or cpus the
processing is occurring on so in those cases it's very possible that the CPU
selected to run a given i o operation for a specific NVMe device may not be
the one that is directly connected to that NVMe drive so if that happens the
transfer has to go across the infinity fabric that connects the two cpus which
can significantly impact performance now we could remedy this by virtualizing new
new one x server into two vms and only
passing through the drives that correspond to a CPU but then that would
leave us with two shares for our poor editors to keep track of and a lot of
added complexity especially given that in this configuration we are still
expecting numbers somewhere in the range of 20 to 30 gigabytes per second which
is way more than our 100 gigabit per second
networking did i even mention that we have a new 100 gigabit per second
network switch coming we're going to hook all that up we're going to have all the editors running 25 gig make sure
you're subscribed so you don't miss that so anyway it's already way more than we
could possibly take advantage of
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CPU usage uh here i'm going to try running a sequential read test and see
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you can see all the running processes actually we had an issue recently with
old wanik where the CPU was pinned at 100 because of some application gone
haywire and that's exactly the kind of thing that pulseway is specifically
designed to help prevent so it'll tell you proactively when something is
sucking up all your CPU cycles so if you guys enjoyed this video maybe
check out the previous video on the deployment of pneumonic which this
ultimately is probably going to replace so i christened this one new new onik
and mnemonic is just dead because those Intel drives it turns out are just
shoddy garbage and they won't rma them for us so
yeah no i don't i'm not going to call it wanik3 this is
new new wanik
look at that new new wanting all right see you later new pneumonic
should we game on it in a future video do you guys want us to put a graphics
card in here yeah no yeah