Supermicro Launches Three NVIDIA-Based Super Clusters

<p><strong>SAN JOSE &&num;8212&semi;  Supermicro&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;strong>&comma; a systems provider for AI&comma; Cloud&comma; Storage&comma; and 5G&sol;Edge&comma; is announcing its latest portfolio to accelerate the deployment of generative AI&period; The Supermicro SuperCluster solutions provide foundational building blocks for the present and the future of large language model &lpar;LLM&rpar; infrastructure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The three powerful Supermicro SuperCluster solutions are now available for generative AI workloads&period; The 4U liquid-cooled systems or 8U air-cooled systems are purpose-built and designed for powerful LLM training performance&comma; as well as large batch size and high-volume LLM inference&period; A third SuperCluster&comma; with 1U air-cooled Supermicro NVIDIA MGXTM systems&comma; is optimized for cloud-scale inference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In the era of AI&comma; the unit of compute is now measured by clusters&comma; not just the number of servers&comma; and with our expanded global manufacturing capacity of 5&comma;000 racks&sol;month&comma; we can deliver complete generative AI clusters to our customers faster than ever before&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Charles Liang&comma; president and CEO of Supermicro&period; &&num;8220&semi;A 64-node cluster enables 512 NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs with 72TB of HBM3e through a couple of our scalable cluster building blocks with 400Gb&sol;s NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking&period; Supermicro&&num;8217&semi;s SuperCluster solutions combined with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software are ideal for enterprise and cloud infrastructures to train today&&num;8217&semi;s LLMs with up to trillions of parameters&period; The interconnected GPUs&comma; CPUs&comma; memory&comma; storage&comma; and networking&comma; when deployed across multiple nodes in racks&comma; construct the foundation of today&&num;8217&semi;s AI&period; Supermicro&&num;8217&semi;s SuperCluster solutions provide foundational building blocks for rapidly evolving generative AI and LLMs&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;NVIDIA’s latest GPU&comma; CPU&comma; networking and software technologies enable systems makers to accelerate a range of next-generation AI workloads for global markets&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Kaustubh Sanghani&comma; vice president of GPU Product Management at NVIDIA&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By leveraging the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform with Blackwell architecture-based products&comma; Supermicro is providing customers with the cutting-edge server systems they need that can easily be deployed in data centers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;supermicro&period;com&sol;en&sol;products&sol;system&sol;gpu&sol;4u&sol;sys-421ge-tnhr2-lcc">Supermicro 4U NVIDIA HGX H100&sol;H200 8-GPU<&sol;a> systems double the density of the 8U air-cooled system by using liquid-cooling&comma; reducing energy consumption and lowering data center TCO&period; These systems are designed to support the next-generation NVIDIA Blackwell architecture-based GPUs&period; The Supermicro cooling distribution unit &lpar;CDU&rpar; and manifold &lpar;CDM&rpar; are the main arteries for distributing cooled liquid to Supermicro&&num;8217&semi;s custom direct-to-chip &lpar;D2C&rpar; cold plates&comma; keeping GPUs and CPUs at optimal temperature&comma; resulting in maximum performance&period; This cooling technology enables up to a 40&percnt; reduction in electricity costs for the entire data center and saves data center real estate space&period; Learn more about Supermicro Liquid Cooling technology&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;supermicro&period;com&sol;en&sol;solutions&sol;liquid-cooling">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;supermicro&period;com&sol;en&sol;solutions&sol;liquid-cooling<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The NVIDIA HGX H100&sol;H200 8-GPU equipped systems are ideal for training Generative Al&period; The high-speed interconnected GPUs through NVIDIA® NVLink®&comma; high GPU memory bandwidth&comma; and capacity are key for running LLM models&comma; cost effectively&period; The Supermicro SuperCluster creates a massive pool of GPU resources acting as a single AI supercomputer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whether fitting an enormous foundation model trained on a dataset with trillions of tokens from scratch or building a cloud-scale LLM inference infrastructure&comma; the spine and leaf network topology with non-blocking 400Gb&sol;s fabrics allows it to scale from 32 nodes to thousands of nodes seamlessly&period; With fully integrated liquid cooling&comma; Supermicro&&num;8217&semi;s proven testing processes thoroughly validate the operational effectiveness and efficiency before shipping&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Supermicro&&num;8217&semi;s NVIDIA MGX system designs featuring the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips will create a blueprint for future AI clusters that address a crucial bottleneck in Generative Al&colon; the GPU memory bandwidth and capacity to run large language &lpar;LLM&rpar; models with high inference batch sizes to lower operational costs&period; The 256-node cluster enables a cloud-scale high-volume inference powerhouse&comma; easily deployable and scalable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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