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Super Micro Computer, Inc., a pioneer in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces the industry’s broadest portfolio of validated NGC-Ready systems optimised to accelerate AI and deep learning applications. Supermicro is highlighting many of these systems at the Supermicro GPU Live Forum in conjunction with NVIDIA GTC Digital. Supermicro NGC-Ready systems allow customers to train AI models using NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs and to perform inference using NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs. Intelligent edge platform NGC hosts GPU-optimised software containers for deep learning, machine learning, and HPC applications, pre-trained models, and SDKs that can run anywhere the Supermicro NGC-Ready systems are deployed whether in data centres, cloud, edge micro-datacentres, or in distributed remote locations as environment-resilient and secured NVIDIA-Ready for Edge servers powered by the NVIDIA EGX intelligent edge platform. “With over 26 years of experience delivering state-of-the-art computing solutions, Supermicro systems are the most power-efficient, the highest performing, and the best value,” said Charles Liang, CEO, and president of Supermicro. “With support for fast networking and storage, as well as NVIDIA GPUs, our Supermicro NGC-Ready systems are the most scalable and reliable servers to support AI. Customers can run their AI infrastructure with the highest ROI.” AI system technology Supermicro offers multi-GPU optimised thermal designs that provide the highest performance and reliability Supermicro currently leads the industry with the broadest portfolio of NGC-Ready Servers optimised for data centre and cloud deployments and is continuing to expand its portfolio. In addition, the company offers five validated NGC-Ready for Edge servers (EGX) optimised for edge inferencing applications. “NVIDIA’s container registry, NGC, enables superior performance for deep learning frameworks and pre-trained AI models with state-of-the-art accuracy,” said Ian Buck, Vice President and General Manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. “The NGC-Ready systems from Supermicro can deliver users the performance they need to train larger models and provide low latency inference to make critical, real-time business decisions.” As the pioneer in AI system technology, Supermicro offers multi-GPU optimised thermal designs that provide the highest performance and reliability for AI, deep learning, and HPC applications. With 1U, 2U, 4U, and 10U rackmount NVIDIA GPU systems as well as GPU blade modules for their 8U SuperBlade® enclosure, Supermicro offers the industry’s best and widest selection of GPU systems.

Super Micro Computer, Inc., a pioneer in enterprise computing, storage, networking, and green computing technology, announces a wide range of Supermicro servers will support the latest NVIDIA technologies. Both 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor-based servers will be available that incorporate the new NVIDIA® A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. With these new technologies, Supermicro systems will speed up HPC simulations and analytics applications. Moreover, AI applications, including training, inference, and recommendation engines, will run faster than previous generations of systems. Application-optimised servers Supermicro servers, designed with a Building Block Solutions® approach, give Supermicro a first to market advantage when incorporating new technologies. State-of-the-art accelerated computing options can be quickly integrated and tested, bringing faster and more powerful systems to demanding customers quicker than other vendors. Supermicro has a long history of bringing systems supporting the latest NVIDIA products to market" "Supermicro has a long history of bringing systems supporting the latest NVIDIA products to market faster than other server manufacturers," said Charles Liang, President, and CEO, Supermicro. "The new products from NVIDIA will give our customers the ability to solve complex HPC and AI challenges much faster than before, decreasing their TCO. We continually bring application-optimised servers with the latest technologies available, such as our GPU and SuperBlade® systems, to help accelerate customer's HPC and AI workloads." High-performance servers The new NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB GPU will enable faster execution of AI and HPC applications, as bigger models can be stored in the GPU memory. In addition, future systems will include networking between high-performance servers with current and future InfiniBand capabilities. The GPU SuperServer SYS-420GP-TNR with dual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors supports up to ten single or double width GPUs, including the new NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs. Also, the AS -4124GS-TNR server contains dual AMD EPYC 7003 processors with up to eight single or double width GPUs, with the new NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs. These new 80GB GPUs from NVIDIA will enable more extensive data sets to be held in memory, accelerating computationally-intensive HPC and AI applications. Transforming entire industries Multiple NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe devices can be installed in a range of Supermicro systems "Supercomputing has the potential to transform entire industries and help solve some of the toughest problems they face,” said Dion Harris, Lead Technical Product Marketing Manager, accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “The extreme performance of the NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA NDR InfiniBand supported by Supermicro servers provides researchers with the unparalleled acceleration required to pursue the toughest industrial HPC challenges in the world.” Multiple NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe devices can be installed in a range of Supermicro systems, allowing for flexible AI computing. By implementing NVIDIA’s Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, organisations can guarantee a high quality of service for single applications and as a service for multiple users concurrently. In addition, with the larger memory available, data will not have to be moved between CPU memory and GPU memory, allowing for higher GPU utilisation. Hyperscale cloud infrastructures Leveraging NVIDIA NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand technology with In-Networking Computing, networking tasks are offloaded, enabling a dramatic leap in performance is enabled, which is required for HPC, AI, and hyperscale cloud infrastructures. The new networking performance will allow applications designed to run on multiple systems, such as the Supermicro SuperBlade and BigTwin® servers, to produce results faster, enabling new insights into complex problems. Integrated systems combining cards, cables, and switches on a complex HPC application will soon be able to share data and communicate twice as fast as before. Customers worldwide use Supermicro systems powered by NVIDIA GPUs to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems. For example, SZTAKI, the Institute for Computer Science and Control, uses NVIDIA HGX™ A100-powered servers to perform AI research in medical processing, machine learning, and language processing.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Supermicro), a globally renowned company in enterprise computing, storage, networking, and green computing technology, will deploy the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip in a wide range of servers optimised for AI, HPC, data analytics, digital twins, and compute-intensive applications. As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies transcend multiple industries, Supermicro servers will use the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip to enable a broader range of developers and IT administrators to take advantage of this new technology. Supermicro servers to use NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip Supermicro servers will be optimised for energy efficiency, reducing operating costs, which will become the norm for all data centres. In addition, with a memory bandwidth of up to 1 TB/second, applications will not be limited by communication speeds. Initially, a limited number of servers will be available, starting with a 2U 2 Node portfolio and then, followed by product line expansion. Supermicro is developing new server platforms incorporating the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip" “Supermicro is developing new server platforms incorporating the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip,” said Charles Liang, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Supermicro, adding “Leveraging our innovative Building Block Solutions, we plan to offer a wide range of servers optimised for specific workloads.” Most advanced energy-efficient servers Charles Liang continues, “Based on our green computing DNA, Supermicro offers the most advanced energy-efficient servers available, to meet demanding data centre requirements. Our first-to-market new systems can quickly address the rapidly expanding AI, HPC, and data analytics markets.” “NVIDIA has been working with Supermicro to quickly bring innovative products to market,” said Paresh Kharya, the Senior Director of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA, adding “The release of Supermicro's servers with NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips will optimise a wide variety of workloads to meet the needs of modern data centres.” Total IT solutions Supermicro’s Total IT solutions are designed to deliver customers a one-stop experience for their IT needs. Supermicro tests and integrates combinations of hardware and software that ensure server or rack-level designs meet the current and future needs of IT professionals. Specifically, the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip interfaces with the latest PCIe Gen5 protocol As part of this ongoing practice, Supermicro will incorporate the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip in solutions that are optimised for HPC, AI, and data analytics workloads. Specifically, the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip interfaces with the latest PCIe Gen5 protocol, enabling optimum 400Gb/s connectivity with the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform or NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet, including NVIDIA ConnectX-7 smart network interface cards and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, enabling secure and accelerated HPC and AI workloads. Supermicro – NVIDIA partnership Supermicro has collaborated with NVIDIA for many years, delivering the most advanced graphics, HPC, and AI accelerators to a wide range of users. With the new NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, the entire NVIDIA software stack, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, will run seamlessly on upcoming Supermicro servers. Supermicro will also continue to support NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, helping to accelerate 3D design collaboration and simulation of industrial virtual worlds and digital twins.