Supermicro Customers Can Access 2U HGX A100 4-GPU or 4U HGX
A100 8-GPU Systems Through Channel Partners – EMEA: Boston and Broadberry; North/Latin America: Colfax, Exxact, Microway, Thinkmate, and AMAX
– Enabling Fast-track Testing of Industry-Leading Platforms
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro
Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise
computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing
technology, released details on a new GPU test-drive program.
Called STEP (Supermicro Test drive Engagement
with Partners), the program allows customers to remote test
drive either Supermicro's 2U HGX A100 4-GPU or 4U HGX A100
8-GPU system with NVIDIA 3rd Generation NVLink
technology.
"Supermicro's collaboration with NVIDIA in the GPU test drive
program delivers through channel partners a unique opportunity to
test workloads on remote Supermicro servers leveraging NVIDIA's HGX
A100 platforms," said Don Clegg,
senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, Supermicro. "This program
will showcase the power of these servers to support unique
applications and accelerate time-to-market solutions."
Customers can access the program through the Supermicro STEP
landing page with links to participating partners where customers
can begin the process of registration. Afterward, customers can
link directly to remote Supermicro NVIDIA HGX A100 platforms to
test and qualify their advanced workloads.
"The NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform is purpose-built for
the highest performance on simulation, data analytics and AI
applications," said Paresh Kharya,
senior director of Product Management and Marketing at NVIDIA.
"Supermicro's decision to build their STEP program on the
foundation of NVIDIA's HGX technology will give customers access to
the leading platform that can tackle the most complex problems and
transform the global research community."
Supermicro's advanced high-density 2U and 4U servers feature
NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU and 8-GPU baseboards. Supermicro's Advanced
I/O Module (AIOM) form factor further enhances networking
communication with high flexibility. The AIOM can be coupled with
the latest high-speed, low latency PCI-E 4.0 storage and networking
devices that support NVIDIA GPUDirect ®RDMA and GPUDirect Storage
with NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) on NVIDIA Mellanox® InfiniBand
that feeds the scalable multi-GPU system with a continuous stream
of data flow without bottlenecks.
Participating Partners
EMEA:
Boston
"Boston is pleased to offer our
European partners and customers the opportunity to test one of
Supermicro's highest-performance and first-to-market servers based
on NVIDIA A100™ GPUs," said Manoj
Nayee, Managing Director, Boston. "The Supermicro AS -2124GQ-NART system
is an ideal building block for AI cluster requirements offered in
the compact 2U form factor that provides an impressively dense
configuration supporting four NVIDIA A100 GPUs. The team at
Boston Labs and the Boston Training Academy looks forward to
supporting customers for testing, training, and implementation of
this next generation of accelerated computing."
Broadberry
"Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an area of strategic
importance and a key driver of economic development for
Europe, according to the European
Commission," said Colin Broadberry,
president of Broadberry Data Systems. "That's why the Broadberry
team is so excited to collaborate with Supermicro to offer clients
remote access to NVIDIA A100 graphics processing units (GPU)-based
servers, the Broadberry CyberServe A+ Server 2124GQ-NART and
CyberServe EPYC EP2-4124GO-NART GPU Server."
North/Latin America:
Colfax
"Colfax International is excited to collaborate with Supermicro
and NVIDIA in launching this new test drive program that enables
users across the industry to have access to the Supermicro AS
-2124GQ-NART, the latest and most powerful 2U GPU server
platform highlighting NVIDIA's new HGX A100 4-GPU," said
Gautam Shah, CEO. "This solution is
able to deliver new speed to previous challenges, accelerating HPC
and AI workloads, which ultimately allows for faster time to
solution. With Colfax's expertise
in the HPC and AI space, we'll be able to help users select the
best GPU solution for their organization."
Exxact
"Exxact Corporation is excited to be collaborating with
Supermicro to provide remote access to a
powerful system TensorEX TS4-195183185 containing 8x
A100 40GB SXM4 GPUs with 600GB/s GPU to GPU bandwidth capabilities,
which will provide excellent opportunity to prove its capabilities
in accelerating code across a wide variety of applications and
codes," said Andrew Nelson, VP of
Technology.
Microway
"Microway's expert team recommends the most flexible,
performant, and cost-effective solutions for turn-key deployments.
Our ability to rapidly deliver these latest HPC and AI systems is
thanks to our close collaboration with Supermicro," said Eliot
Eshelman, VP Strategic Accounts at Microway. "We're proud to be
offering the first HGX A100 8-GPU solution to market, Supermicro AS
-4124GO-NART, as our Navion 4U GPU with NVLink Server—and encourage
potential customers to try it before they buy [microway.com] with
our new remote testing resources."
Thinkmate
"Many people are familiar with the power of NVIDIA® A100
graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerating artificial
intelligence (AI) workloads, but some have never seen how well they
can work with AMD-based central processing units (CPUs)," said
Brian Corn, vice president of
products for Thinkmate. "Thanks to our collaboration with
Supermicro, Thinkmate is able to give customers the opportunity to
try out Supermicro's powerful new AMD and NVIDIA-based servers –
the Thinkmate GPX QN4-22E2-4NV and GPX QN6-42E2-8NV – and
experience the power of this combination for themselves."
AMAX
AMAX is delighted to collaborate with Supermicro and NVIDIA to
enable customers to test drive an NVIDIA A100-based server
DGS-428AS, and to help them accelerate their most demanding
analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), inference, and
training workloads," said Dr. Rene
Meyer, VP of Technology at AMAX. "AMAX's AceleMax GPU
solutions, powered by the latest NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs,
deliver unprecedented performance and massive scalability on all
accelerated workloads for HPC, data analytics, training and
inference."
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