Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 Technical Guide

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System overview

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 is 4-socket, 2U rack server designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O, and network options. The systems feature the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family, up to 48 DIMMs, PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies for rNDC. The PowerEdge R840 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data analytics, data warehouses, ecommerce, databases, CPU virtualization, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Topics:

• Introduction
• New technologies

Introduction

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 is 4 socket, 2U rack server designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O, and network options. The system features the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family, up to 48 DIMMs, PCI Express 3.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies for rNDC. The PowerEdge R840 is a general purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data analytics, data warehouses, ecommerce, databases, CPU virtualization, and high-performance computing.

The R840 features:

• 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor product family-with up to 28 cores and two threads per core
• Up to 24 channels with 6 channels per CPU and up to 48 DIMMs with 2 DIMMs per channel
• Scale capacity and performance with up to 26 2.5 inch HDDs and SSDs
• Accelerate applications with up to 2 double-width GPUs or up to 2 full-height FPGAs
• Speed data transfers with a fully integrated ultra-path interconnect across all four sockets

New technologies

The following are the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge R840:

Table 1. New technologies

Table Caption: This table outlines the key new technologies employed in a system, including the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, Intel C620 series chipset, 2933 MT/s DDR4 memory, and Intel Optane DC persistent memory, providing details on their specifications and capabilities.

Table 1. New technologies (continued)

Table Caption: This table lists new technological features for a Dell EMC system, providing details on memory specifications, embedded systems management, storage options (PCIe SSDs and software RAID), an LCD control panel, and wireless management capabilities.

System features

The R840 system is a 2U