Intel’s new Cascade Lake processors and Optane DC Persistent Memory have been scorching matters within the press of late, as we’ve waited patiently for them to be introduced. That day was right now, and Intel’s companions are in full pressure asserting their newest platform improvements round these merchandise. Supermicro, certainly one of Intel’s largest OEM companions, put up a quantity price being attentive to: 100+. That’s the variety of new and up to date methods the corporate has prepared to fireside out of the door to its clients.
Supermicro is sort of a wild and thrilling OEM. The firm prides itself on being tremendous agile, and having the ability to reply to customer-specific system requests in weeks, relatively than the months it would take one of many extra conventional gamers on this area. Intel is even quoted this as one of many qualities Supermicro brings to the desk within the firm’s press launch. As a end result, Supermicro appears able to go along with Cascade Lake and Optane in nearly each kind issue and configuration you possibly can consider.
The first era Xeon Scalable processors, primarily based on Intel’s Skylake structure, fashioned Supermicro’s X11 platform. For the second era, there isn’t a change in socket, and so Cascade Lake and Optane-enabled methods additionally fall beneath the X11 title. This is fascinating – we noticed configurations of Supermicro’s Skylake methods again at Supercomputing 2017 with ‘extra DRAM slots’, which we’ve now discovered had been pre-builds for Optane methods, which SM can roll out right now with only a few modifications. Supermicro claims that its optimized X11 choices with Cascade Lake can supply clients higher efficiency (as much as 35%) and higher complete value of possession (TCO) as much as 50% in comparison with the earlier era. This is usually according to the numbers that Intel has quoted for the brand new platform as properly.
One key space that Supermicro is eager to advertise is its latest all-flash NVMe 1U storage server system utilizing Cascade Lake, with help for NF1 and Intel EDSFF kind issue SSDs, both immediately or over a material. The firm states that it already has over a dozen high-profile clients its Cascade Lake all-flash storage options for a wide range of purposes.
Supermicro can be a key accomplice in Intel’s Select Solutions program, the place particular configurations are designed and optimized by Intel and the OEM for particular markets. Combined with Supermicro’s Resource-Saving disaggregated server portfolio, which splits components of the server up into serviceable and replaceable boards, the corporate is proud to advertise the truth that its clients can improve to the most recent applied sciences without having to fully scrap and rebuild, permitting for increased efficiency and higher effectivity with out the necessity to create extra waste or for extra value.
Also on the checklist of system bulletins are the no-compromise methods. For these, Supermicro is providing the height of every part that might match right into a 1U or 2U kind issue. Depending on the dimensions, this might imply as much as 28 cores per socket, as much as 24 DIMMs of DDR4-2933 reminiscence per server, as much as 6TB of Optane DC Persistent Memory per server, as much as 24 hot-swap NVMe drives per server, as much as eight PCIe 3.zero enlargement slots, redundant 750W-1600W titanium effectivity energy provides, and as a lot Ethernet connectivity as is viable. Supermicro can be going to supply Cascade Lake methods that help as much as 20 GPUs / PCIe accelerators, so clients can use each DL Boost and the accelerators for deep studying. If that wasn’t all, how about an 8-socket system?
Supermicro is having a digital launch occasion this week, and clients are inspired to hitch. To enroll, the hyperlink is right here. We’re set to talk with Supermicro as a part of Intel’s launch occasion, and if I get any extra info I’ll add it right here.
