Build 210 – Power Hammer: Laser Scanning Workstation

Power Hammer is a laser scanning workstation, designed around a 36-core Xeon w9-3​4​75X processor and an RTX A6000 48GB video card.

Description

Power Hammer is a laser scanning workstation, designed around a 36-core Xeon w9-3​4​75X processor and an RTX A6000 48GB video card.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 36-core Xeon w9-3​4​75X processor and an RTX A6000 48GB video card.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new workstation to handle their growing professional workload that would last a long time.

This build was designed for drone mapping, CAD, and LIDAR processing. This build was designed specifically for Trimble Enterprise.

This build was influenced by our Xeon Extreme AEC Workstation.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): Intel Xeon w9-3​4​75X

CPU Cooler: Enermax Liqtech II TR4/Xeon 360

Motherboard: Supermicr​o​ X13SWA-​TF

Memory: Kingston ​​8​x64GB D​D​R5​-480​​0 ​ECC

Storage (NVME): Kingston KC3000 2TB

Storage (NVME): 2x Kingston KC3000 4TB

Video Card (GPU): Nvidia RTX A6000 48GB

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Straight Power 11 1200W

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 Black

Fans: 9x Phanteks PH-F120T30

OS: Windows 11 Workstation

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Design Rationale

  • The Xeon w9-3​4​75X gave the customer a great amount of single-core performance for lightly-threaded loads, and multicore performance for heavily-threaded tasks.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, liquid cooling with a 360mm liquid cooler is recommended.
  • For maximum expansion, we recommended a W790 motherboard with 16 DIMM slots and 10G networking.
  • For excellent long-term scan processing capability, we recommended 8x64GB DDR5-4800 ECC. This allows the user to load very large scans into RAM, and go up to 4TB RAM.
  • We halved the storage setup in our Xeon Extreme AEC Workstation to accommodate the budget.
  • We downgraded the GPU from an RTX 6000 ADA in our Xeon Extreme AEC Workstation to the RTX A6000. This still gives the user 48GB VRAM.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 1200W power supply was recommended.
  • We used our bigger full-tower case to fit the build.
  • We used our highest-end fans to ensure proper airflow and static pressure.

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