Super Micro Computer, Inc. supports two new Intel-based accelerators for
demanding cloud gaming, media delivery, AI and ML workloads, enabling
customers to deploy the latest acceleration technology from Intel and
Intel Habana.
"Supermicro
continues to work closely with Intel and Habana Labs to deliver a range
of server solutions supporting Arctic Sound-M and Gaudi2 that address
the demanding needs of organizations that require highly efficient media
delivery and AI training," said Charles Liang,
president and CEO. "We continue to collaborate with leading technology
suppliers to deliver application-optimized total system solutions for
complex workloads while also increasing system performance."
Supermicro
can quickly bring to market new technologies by using a Building Block
Solutions® approach to designing new systems. This methodology allows
new GPUs and acceleration technology to be easily placed into existing
designs or, when necessary, quickly adapt an existing design when needed
for higher-performing components.
"Supermicro
helps deliver advanced AI and media processing with systems that
leverage our latest Gaudi2 and Arctic Sound-M accelerators," stated Sandra Rivera,
executive vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and AI
Group at Intel. "Supermicro's Gaudi AI Training Server will accelerate
deep learning training in some of the fastest growing workloads in the
datacenter."
Arctic Sound-M
Supermicro
systems with the Arctic Sound-M GPUs will address the demanding
requirements in cloud gaming, media transcoding and streaming, virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI), simulation and visualization, machine
learning, and content creation. With the industry's first hardware AV-1
encoder and open source media software stack, the Intel Arctic Sound-M
dramatically improves performance compared with software-only video
transcoding and delivery solutions and contains acceleration functions
for VDI environments.
The
Intel Arctic Sound-M GPUs will initially be available in the 2U 2 Node
single processor Intel system with 3 GPUs per node, the 4U 10xGPU
system, and the CloudDC server, with additional systems to be announced
later this year. The new Supermicro AI Training Servers include dual
Intel 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and eight Habana Gaudi2 accelerators for high-performance AI training environments.
Habana Labs Gaudi2
The Habana Labs Gaudi2 excels
at a range of workloads that include: vision applications such as image
classification, object detection, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
models, and recommendation systems. The new AI Training server will be
the first commercial implementation with the new Habana Gaudi2 (HL-225)
in an 8U chassis. This server will accelerate AI training to new
performance levels combined with dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
processors and up to 8TB DRAM. With 24 hot-swappable drive bays
supporting ample local high-performance storage, significant amounts of
IO are contained within the server. In addition, the Gaudi2 accelerator
is available with air cooling (HL-225). With the Habana Gaudi2, scaling
is easy and straightforward. With ROCE, each Habana Gaudi2 accelerator
can communicate with the other Gaudi2 accelerators at 700 GB/sec and
communicate to other Gaudi2 accelerators that reside in different
servers at 2.4 TB/sec. In addition, each server contains 6 x QSFP-DD
ports to allow easy scale-out to handle larger models and data sets.
* Gaudi2 compared to Gaudi, ResNet50 Training (TensorFlow, Images/Sec), based on Habana Labs data
Intel Vision 2022, Supermicro will be showcasing the following solutions in booth #105:
- VSBLTY Facial Recognition and Retail Analysis
- Taqtile Manifest VR/AR
- Supermicro multi-node systems (powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon)
- Supermicro X12 Gaudi AI Training Server