3600 Dedicated Server

3600 dedicated server

Hardware specification

Power draw at 230 V observed: 165 W idle, 410 W peak (FIO stress, 2×6342, 256 GB, 12 SSDs). MTBF per publicly-released Intel reliability report: 1.4 million device-hours for the CPU silicon, 0.44 % AFR for the platform when operated at ≤ 35 °C inlet.

Cost benchmarks

Use cases

• High-frequency MySQL or PostgreSQL clusters needing > 100 k IOPS at low queue depth
• CPU-bound CI pipelines (C++, Rust) that scale to 48–64 cores and benefit from AVX-512
• Research workloads licensed per physical host (Gaussian, MATLAB)
• Game-server hosting for Source 2 titles where single-thread turbo > 3.4 GHz keeps tick-rate stable above 128 FPS

Comparison with adjacent SKUs

Model !! Cores !! Base GHz !! L3 Cache !! TDP !! PassMark 10 !! Typical Rental €/mo
Xeon E-2388G || 8 || 3.2 || 16 MB || 95 W || 23 900 || €89
Xeon Gold 6342 (3600 class) || 24 || 2.8 || 36 MB || 230 W || 46 100 || €249
Xeon Platinum 8380 || 40 || 2.3 || 60 MB || 270 W || 59 700 || €429

Performance-per-watt for the 6342 is 200 pts/W vs. 221 pts/W for the 8380, so the 3600-series sits in the efficiency sweet-spot for medium-density racks.

Security and risk disclaimer

Running bare-metal hardware exposes the tenant to:
• Firmware vulnerabilities (e.g., Intel-SA-00525, 2022 IPMI cipher-zero) that can persist across OS reinstalls
• Single-point-of-failure storage: HW-RAID batteries age; a power-loss event can corrupt write-back cache if BBU is > 3 years old
• Regulatory liability: if the server handles personal data, GDPR, HIPAA or PCI-DSS still apply—dedicated hardware does not remove the need for encryption at rest and in transit
• Capital lock-in: most providers invoice monthly but require 30-day notice; cancelling mid-term can forfeit pre-paid credits
• Electricity surcharges: several EU hosts add a “PUE-adjusted kWh” clause; a 20 % rise in utility tariffs can be passed on with 30 days’ notice

Always verify the provider’s SLA around parts replacement (target: < 4 h for business-critical) and keep off-site encrypted backups.

Energy efficiency and carbon footprint

The 3600-series CPUs are fabricated on Intel 10 nm ESF node; SPECpower_ssj2008 result for a dual 6342 node is 8 950 ssj_ops/W, 22 % higher than the prior Cascade-Lake generation. Using the EU average of 0.296 kg CO₂e kWh⁻¹, a machine under 50 % utilisation emits ≈ 1.3 t CO₂e year⁻¹—equivalent to a mid-size petrol car driven 6 500 km.

How to order

1. Short-list providers that publish PeeringDB entries for your target region—this reduces latency jitter. 2. Ask for the exact motherboard model (e.g., Supermicro X12DPU-6) and verify it supports PCIe 4.0 bifurcation if you plan to add NVMe RAID cards. 3. Negotiate bandwidth 95th-percentile billing instead of “max” usage; 3600-series nodes easily saturate 10 Gb/s during backups. 4. Request a remote KVM trial for 24 h to validate IPMI firmware age; anything older than 2022-03 should be flashed before signing.

See also

• Dedicated hosting service
• Xeon Scalable
• Colocation centre
• Server farm