Supermicro, Inc. announced the
latest addition to its revolutionary ultra-high performance,
high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. Supermicro
systems in this high performance storage product family will support the
next-generation EDSFF form factor, including the E3.S and E1.S devices,
in form factors that accommodate 16- and 32 high-performance PCIe Gen5
NVMe drive bays.
The initial offering of the updated product line
will support up to one-half of a petabyte of storage space in a 1U 16
bay rackmount system, followed by a full petabyte of storage space in a
2U 32 bay rackmount system for both Intel and AMD PCIe Gen5 platforms.
"Supermicro
continues to address our users' requirements with innovative solutions
for today's and tomorrow's workloads," said Charles Liang, president and
CEO of Supermicro. "With up to a petabyte of storage in a standard
rackmount system, users can quickly access tremendous amounts of data at
their fingertips. The new storage system is compact and energy
efficient and will give our users the lowest latency and highest
bandwidth in the industry. The performance and capacity of these new
systems enable customers to gain insight using advanced AI technologies.
Using our building block architecture, we can bring the latest
technologies to market faster, giving users advanced systems as part of
our Total IT Solutions rack scale offerings."
As the evolution of
CPU, GPU, and memory technologies continue to increase the speed and
quantity of data processed by modern compute clusters, enhanced storage
performance is also necessary to feed the data to applications without
becoming a bottleneck that slows the entire system down. Supermicro's
Petascale All-Flash servers offer industry-leading storage performance
and capacity, enabling customers to reduce the number of rackmount
systems needed to fulfill their hot- and warm-tier storage requirements,
reducing TCO.
The new Intel based systems are powered by dual 4th
Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 270W TDP and contain up to 32
DIMMs of DDR5-4800MHz memory, for a total of 8TB of memory. In addition,
4th Gen AMD EPYCTM processors power the AMD based systems up to 350W TDP
and 24 DIMMs of DDR5-4800MHz memory. These systems are designed for
computationally intense applications with massive I/O requirements and
large in-memory requirements.
Two full-height half-length PCIe
Gen5 x16 slots support advanced xPUs, and smart NICs, allowing users to
streamline operations using the emerging NVMe-Over-Fabric or
GPU-accelerated storage that is now disrupting traditional IT. Two
additional Supermicro PCIe Gen5 x16 AIOM (Advanced I/O Module) slots
provide enhanced field serviceability and plug-in compatibility with a
broad spectrum of off-the-shelf OCP 3.0 networking cards. The all-new
NUMA balance symmetrical architecture reduces latency by providing the
shortest signal paths to the drives, a balance of bandwidth to the
storage, and flexible networking options. The symmetrical design also
facilitates smooth airflow over the entire system, allowing the use of
more powerful processors.