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Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global provider of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing, brings the industry’s broadest selection of high-performance computing (HPC) systems to SuperComputing 2020 (SC20), in Supermicro’s virtual booth, from November 17-19.  In addition to product demonstrations, Supermicro is also hosting several speaking sessions on recent HPC deployments from senior Supermicro representatives. Supermicro offers an extensive range of leading-edge HPC systems optimised for specific software, storage and power/cooling requirements to accelerate the deployment of complete field-proven HPC solutions. Authority comment  “Supermicro offers the most advanced HPC systems targeting computationally intensive applications for scientific research and discovery across a range of disciplines and Supermicro is actively innovating to provide customer solutions for these dynamic markets,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “Our extensive portfolio supports our focus on Resource-Saving Architecture™ designed to help customers reduce power consumption and TCO, plus the ability to replace critical components and reuse many of the subassemblies for multiple refresh cycles to reduce IT waste and minimise TCE (Total Cost to the Environment).” Supermicro Sessions at SC20 Advanced High-performance Computing Systems to Find Cure for COVID-19 – The Corona and Mammoth Clusters at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Deploying Liquid-cooling supercomputer cluster at Scale in a Challenging Environment – The Ruby Cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) Wednesday, November, 18, 2020, 12:45 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Advanced compute solutions Supermicro provides advanced compute solutions including the SuperBlade® systems Supermicro provides advanced compute solutions including the SuperBlade® systems with one-socket, two-socket and four-socket blade servers supporting up to 280-watt processors, NVMe, 200G HDR InfiniBand switches, 25G/10G Ethernet switches, single or double-width GPUs, redundant AC/DC power supplies and Battery Backup (BBP®), making them ideal for enterprise, cloud and HPC applications. Critical to HPC is the industry's foremost density that SuperBlade provides (10 x 4-socket or 20 x 1 or 2-socket blade servers), delivering up to 40 CPUs and 40 GPUs in 8U. GPU servers optimised for AI Supermicro offers the industry’s broadest selection of GPU servers optimised for AI, Deep Learning and HPC workloads, including a full line of systems from 1U up to 10U that support up to 40 GPUs with two single-width PCI-E GPUs in one node for SuperBlade in a single system. Supermicro offers high-density 2U and 4U servers with interconnected 4-GPU and 8-GPU boards as well as 8 PCI-E based on the four- and eight-way boards. With several GPUs, also available in PCIe form factor, customers can also expect a major performance boost across Supermicro’s extensive portfolio of multi-GPU servers including 1U Ultra and BigTwin™ and embedded systems supporting GPUs; as well as GPU blade modules up to 2 GPUs per module for our 8U SuperBlade®. Supermicro offers the industry’s widest and deepest selection of GPU systems to power supercomputing applications. Supermicro’s multi-node Twin family Supermicro’s multi-node Twin family was designed to meet the density and shared power requirements of HPC environments Supermicro’s multi-node Twin family was designed to meet the density and shared power requirements of HPC environments. Supermicro’s new BigTwin™ multi-node family delivers density, shared power and full performance for HPC. The BigTwin is a 2U four dual-processor node system with six NVMe drives per node. This system is capable of supporting up to 280W processors. Also, the H12 BigTwin family of servers is optimised to deliver a new level of integration and superior performance for modern supercomputing clusters. Liquid-cooled server solutions HPC applications are continuing to grow in complexity as they unlock new scientific insights. HPC deployments, especially data-intensive projects, can yield sophisticated environmental challenges (power and cooling). Supermicro is featuring its expanded offering of liquid-cooled server solutions to address the power and cooling challenges for computationally intensive workloads in today’s HPC data centres.

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.