Supermicro Total Solutions are designed and optimized to address our customer's leading IT challenges and opportunities. Open industry standards based architectures built from Supermicro's exhaustive product portfolio enable the right choice of form-factor, RAS features, efficiency and manageability for the targeted workload. The solutions are designed to help customers reduce IT Project complexity and risk, control acquisition and operational costs and accelerate time to market.
Total Solution Lifecycle
Design: Total hardware, software and services solution
Integrate: Simplify and accelerate the design cycle, purchase and deployment (acquisition costs) with proven integrations, configurations and performance characterization
Maintain: Provide the management technology and services required to optimize the ongoing operational costs of the solution.
Grow your virtualized environment into a hyper-converged infrastructure with VMware vSphere & Virtual SAN to deliver a smart, cost efficient, resilient all-in-one solution.
Accelerate your OpenStack deployment by choosing one of our pre-validated Supermicro OpenStack solutions. You can build the solution from one of the pre-validated ToR switches, optimized compute nodes and storage nodes with high availability and scale from half a rack to multi-rack or customize to meet your specific needs.
The storage landscape is evolving from premium priced proprietary hardware and software solutions to software defined storage based on open industry standard hardware and the benefits are significant: reduced vendor lock-in, significantly lower storage costs and rapid open innovation with new technologies like all NVMe solutions.
Supermicro has partnered with Microsoft to deliver Industry's highest performance 70TB SQL Server 2016 Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) reference architecture in two socket systems, leveraging highly efficient Ultra Servers utilizing low latency and high throughput NVMe SSD's.
Supermicro's Hadoop Solutions have been created to focus on getting a powerful and balanced cluster up and running-as quickly as possible, enabling rapid and efficient innovation.
Working closely with customers, Hadoop distribution companies, and data engineering companies; Supermicro has created complete simple, upgradeable, turn-key solutions designed to take the guesswork out of designing your Hadoop infrastructure.
Get responsive, scalable and secure VDI infrastructure while simplifying operations, and reducing the costs of computing. Supermicro has developed a line of fully configured SuperServer® solutions to address the rapidly growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and featuring NVIDIA Tesla M10, M60, and P40 GPUs supporting hardware virtualization.
Supermicro RSD, a rack-scale total solution, empowers cloud service providers, telecoms, and Fortune 500 companies to build their own agile, efficient, software-defined data centers. Built on industry-standard, RESTful Redfish APIs from Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and open-source Intel® Rack Scale Design software framework, Supermicro RSD integrated rack solution can be flexibly configured using Supermicro's broad and optimized server, storage and switch hardware products. Supermicro RSD total solution accelerates large scale data center deployments by elevating provisioning and management to the rack level and maximizes resource utilization through disaggregating compute, network and storage resources distributed within a rack or across multiple racks.
Key benefits of Supermicro RSD:
- Open RESTful API based rack-level management provides interoperability and scalability in cloud-scale infrastructure without vendor lock-in
- Disaggregated hardware and dynamic composability maximize utilization of compute, network and storage resources while meeting ever changing workloads
- Future-proof investment with existing and new disaggregated hardware. Pick and choose the best hardware building blocks to configure the racks that meet your specific workloads
Supermicro RSD Software Components
Supermicro RSD includes the following software components:
- Pod Manager (PodM): A pod is a collection of physical racks. Pod Manager sits at the top of the logical software hierarchy and uses Redfish APIs to communicate with the racks that make up the pod. It manages and aggregates the hardware resources within multiple racks in the Pod by communicating with respective PSMEs and RMMs.
- Rack Management Module (RMM): RMM manages power and thermal resources within a rack by polling rack hardware and reports this information to PodM through Redfish APIs.
- Pooled System Management Engine (PSME): PSME acts as the drawer or chassis manager. PSME communicates with each BMC controller in the drawer/chassis and reports aggregated information such as telemetry and asset information through Redfish APIs to PodM.
- Pooled NVMe Controller (PNC): For the new pooled NVMe storage, the PSME equivalent is called PNC.
- Web UI: A browser-based graphical user interface that simplifies the management of RSD
To streamline Supermicro RSD deployments, all required management software components are packaged into a 1U management appliance with each software component running in its own container.
Supermicro RSD Hardware Requirements
Since Supermicro RSD runs on all X11-generation server and storage systems supporting Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and networking hardware, customers have the total flexibility to build optimized Supermicro RSD racks that best serve their needs.
A minimum Supermicro RSD rack includes the following hardware components:
- A 1U management appliance and all RSD related software. The ordering SKU is SYS-5019S-TN4-SRSMGT and SFT-SMCI-SRSDM for the RSD software. A second management appliance can be ordered as a standby for high-availability applications
- One Supermicro 1Gb Ethernet management switch for connecting the BMC controllers
- One Supermicro data switch, such as SSE-X3348TR (10GbE) or SSE-C3632SR (100GbE)
- Select your compute nodes from Supermicro's X11-generation server portfolio based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Popular server choices include, but are not limited to TwinPro™, BigTwin™, FatTwin™, Ultra, and MicroBlade™.
- Select your storage nodes from Supermicro's storage portfolio. Popular choices include the 32 NVMe SSDs in 1U disaggregated storage (SSG-136R-N32JBF), 2U Ultra with 24 NVMe as hot storage, 2U SSG with 24 SAS HDDs as warm storage and 60-bay or 90-bay JBODs as cold storage
Supermicro RSD 2.1 Key Features
The most exciting breakthrough in the latest Supermicro RSD total solution is the high-performance, high-density, and disaggregated NVMe storage. Based on Intel RSD spec 2.1, the arrival of this innovative technology marks the beginning of a paradigm shift to deploy truly disaggregated resource pools in today’s large scale data centers that will dramatically improve data center efficiency, increase utilization and reduce costs.
At just 1U rack space, Supermicro disaggregated NVMe storage supports 32 hot-swap 2.5" NVMe SSDs or the new Intel "Ruler" form factor and up to 1PB of NVMe storage capacity. With an innovative and elegant pull-out tray design for hot-swap and tool-less drive carriers, deploying and servicing the disaggregated NVMe storage in a Supermicro RSD deployment is extremely easy.
Other key features in Supermicro RSD 2.1 include:
- An interactive dashboard that provides the data center administrators an overview of all physical assets under RSD management
- An interactive, topological view of the physical rack and chassis in the Supermicro Pod Manager UI. Administrators can further select chassis in the rack to drill down on details at the component level such as BMC IP address, physical position in the rack, and so on
- Analytics and telemetry about system overview, utilization, CPU, memory and composed nodes. The historical data will not only help you understand how your system was used but also predict possible future system behaviors.
Try Supermicro RSD in one of our RSD Solution Centers
You can evaluate the flexibility, performance, efficiency and manageability of Supermicro's RSD systems today in the Supermicro RSD Solution Centers. Each center supports both on-site visits and remote access, allowing you to dynamically configure hardware resources for specific workloads using the RSD graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI).
To experience the Supermicro RSD Solution Centers and start experimenting with your own workloads, contact Supermicro today at: total_solutions@supermicro.com.
Supermicro and Microsoft have partnered together to deliver industry leading "fully certified solutions". These solutions are delivered on highly optimized and flexible Supermicro Server and Storage Systems. Supermicro Systems are designed to provide significant advantage to these solutions in the areas of power efficiency, performance and overall system optimization. These design principles coupled with bringing innovative technologies at an accelerated pace drives time to market value for Microsoft Solutions. In case of some of these disruptive technologies like NVMe, Supermicro is an established leader with the broadest range of products that customers can choose from.
Microsoft Certified Solutions running on Supermicro hardware consist of Windows Server, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Exchange Server, Hyper converged solutions like Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Server and Azure Stack. These solutions are optimized for Enterprise, Hybrid Cloud, Private and Public Cloud markets. We also deliver the Windows operating system software preloaded for fast growing SMB and Enterprise customers.
Supermicro has consistently innovated in the areas of designing Server board, Chassis, highly efficient power supply, network interconnect and storage systems. The building block approach is one of the key innovations to Server system architecture. This vertically integrated design approach accelerates the delivery of application optimized Microsoft Solutions based on customer requirements.
Data Warehouse Fast Track For Microsoft® SQL Server®
Microsoft Data Warehouse Fast Track (DWFT) for SQL Server® 2016 is designed to provide customers optimized and validated system architectures for addressing data warehouse workload challenges including exponential growth of data, demands of lower data latency and faster query response times.
Supermicro has partnered with Microsoft to deliver Industry's highest performance 70TB SQL Server 2016 DWFT reference architecture in 2 socket systems, leveraging highly efficient Ultra Servers utilizing low latency and high throughput NVMe SSD's.
Supermicro systems continue to provide many advantages to SAP customers with its new SAP certification to run SAP HANA, S/4HANA additionally to SAP NetWeaver related workloads and boost the performance of SAP mission critical in-memory database and applications on the reliable Supermicro scale-up platform.
Supermicro is offering SAP customers a wide range of certified solutions offering high performance, high density and optimized platform. The offerings include:
- Supermicro Solutions for SAP HANA®are preinstalled and preconfigured systems designed to help organizations instantly and in real time speed up the SAP transactional and analytical workload.
- Supermicro Scalable system for SAP HANA® allows customers to scale up from small system with 192 GB up to 6 TB RAM and two or four sockets with up 112 cores and address huge HANA, S/4HANA, BW/4H, and Data Mart workload.
- Increasing Supermicro systems number in a Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) offering add more value to the newly certified appliance to optimally integrate SAP HANA in your data center.
- TDI with Supermicro systems provides you with more flexibility regarding the hardware components required to run SAP HANA
- Supermicro platform for SAP Business Suitegives you high performance, high availability and scalability for mission-critical SAP NetWeaver systems.
- Serviceability: Supermicro understands the business requirements for quality and timely support. We offer excellent 24/7/365 support for our products including the option for global overnight or 4-hour on-site service at your location. Plus, new remote management software packages which make monitoring your infrastructure simple and effective.
Supermicro Solutions for SAP HANA: standardized, highly optimized, & fast implemented
Your business expects you to analyze and access large volumes of data you need in real-time. With the Supermicro Solutions for SAP HANA that stores data in columnar tables and uses memory processing speed and multicore processor technology, you can run advanced analytics alongside high-speed transactions and get accurate, up-to-date responses in real time.
Our latest 2U 4-Socket SuperServer (2049U-TR4) supporting the highest performance Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, maximum memory and all-flash SSD storage for operating the SAP HANA® platform*. SuperServer 2049U-TR4 for SAP HANA supports customers by offering a unique scale-up single node system built based on a well-defined hardware specification designed to meet the demanding performance requirements of HANA in-memory technology.
Our scale up appliance 2049U-TR4 is available in many different configurations based on customer needs and workload. It scales up from 192GB to 6 TB RAM and is supported like below:
BWoH, BW/4H, S/4H, and DM
2 sockets x 28 cores systems
192 GB to 3 TB
4 sockets x 28 cores systems
192 GB to 6 TB
SuperServer 2049U-TR4 for SAP HANA offers customers a pre-assembled, pre-installed, pre-configured, standardized and highly optimized solution for mission-critical HANA database and applications, including SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse and SAP Business Suite on corresponding Supermicro's NetWeaver certified platform. We offer SAP customers access to new, innovative technology, but also further our partnership with SAP with complementary hardware solutions.
SAP HANA tailored data center integration offers you more openness and freedom of choice to configure the layer for SAP HANA depending on your existing data center layout.
In addition to SAP HANA as standardized and highly optimized appliance like described above, our customers can use the tailored data center integration approach, which is more open and flexible, to run SAP HANA in datacenters. This option enables a reduction in hardware and operational costs through the reuse of existing hardware components and operational processes as long as they are part of "Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory".
Supermicro's HANA solution complements existing solutions from Supermicro for SAP NetWeaver Solutions and customers to best support the transition to SAP HANA and S/4HANA.
Supermicro® SAP Certified Solutions and Technology Partnership
Supermicro a global leader in compute, storage and networking technologies, including green computing, has certified its complete portfolio of server and storage solutions to support the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform running on Linux. Supermicro is collaborating with SAP to bring its rich portfolio of open cloud-scale computing solutions to enterprise customers looking to transition from traditional high-cost proprietary systems to open, cost-optimized, software-defined architectures. To support this collaboration, Supermicro has recently joined the SAP global technology partner program.
Supermicro is offering SAP customers a wide range of certified solutions including high performance, rack-mount 1U or 2U Ultra SuperServers, 4 or 8-socket Multi-Processor (MP) systems, high performance, density optimized SuperBlade® and no-compromise 5th generation Twin architecture BigTwin™ computing solutions. Designed for enterprises that require the highest operational efficiency and maximum performance, all these Supermicro SuperServer solutions are ready for SAP applications based on NetWeaver technology platform such as SAP ECC, SAP BW and SAP CRM, either as application or database server in a two- or three-tier SAP configuration.
As more and more SAP customers are planning partial or complete transition from their current SAP infrastructure to SAP HANA or S/4HANA, Supermicro has certified its flagship Ultra SuperServer 2049U-TR4 for SAP HANA to help accelerate the migration and mitigate risks. Ultra SuperServer certification for SAP HANA is another step forward for customers who are at the beginning or in the midst of the SAP infrastructure upgrade journey. SAP customers are migrating away from proprietary UNIX systems toward industry standard x86 server architecture in order to build agile, open cloud infrastructure and to reduce total cost of ownership. They can begin their journey today with Supermicro certified solutions for NetWeaver and SAP HANA.
Supermicro offers comprehensive solutions for the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. Supermicro provides mission-critical 24X7 technical support in conjunction with SAP. To accelerate deployment and reduce complexity, Supermicro offers rack integration, proof-of-concept testing, consulting services on solution architecture design.
For comprehensive information on Supermicro SuperBlade product lines, please go to the SuperBlade products page.
Cloud Solution
Digital Transformation and Cloud Computing
Digital transformation is not just a buzz word anymore; it is a critical business strategy for enterprises. Innovation in business demands a strong merger between ever evolving technology and your enterprise’s digital transformation strategy.
75%
of CIOs and their enterprises will fail to meet all their digital objectives through 2019, dragged down by conflicting digital transformation imperatives, ineffective technology innovation, cloud infrastructure transition, and underfunded end-of-life core systems.1
90%
of IT decision-makers claim legacy systems are preventing them from harnessing the digital technologies they need to grow and become more efficient.2
72%
of CIOs’ budgets are spent on existing IT concerns, while only 28% goes to new projects and innovation.3
Cloud computing is foundational to an effective digital transformation, but many do not know where to start or are too afraid to upgrade their legacy servers and storage systems. Many companies spend time on legacy issues instead of investing in new technologies to evolve their business, but why? It’s because they haven’t found the right cloud computing partner… until now.
Supermicro helps customers build cloud infrastructure that lasts. In 2017, Fortune magazine named Supermicro as the #1 fastest growing IT company in the world and #18 fastest growing company overall. In Q1 '18 IDC named Supermicro the 3rd largest server company worldwide with a year-over-year volume growth of 32.9%.4
Supermicro has quickly become a global leader in cloud system technology, with green computing platforms developed for a range of markets. With Supermicro, you can be confident that you are working with a technology-leading, innovative, and knowledgeable partner who makes your business’ digital transformation simple.
Supermicro® Total Solution for Canonical with Kubernetes Containers
Supermicro and Canonical have partnered to deliver solutions that feature Kubernetes containers.
This solution is built and validated with Supermicro SuperServers, SuperStorage systems, and Supermicro Ethernet switches that are optimized for performance and designed to provide the highest levels of reliability, quality and scalability.
The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is pure upstream Kubernetes tested across the widest range of clouds — from public clouds to private data centers, from bare metal to virtualized infrastructure. Canonical also provides a rich ecosystem of tools, libraries, services, modern metrics, and monitoring tools to make CDK easy to consume so you can innovate faster.
Build your Kubernetes container solution with Supermicro and Canonical.
Highlights
- Validated reference architectures
- Certified components
- Scale out – One rack to many racks
- Greenest Servers for the Cloud – Save hundreds of dollars per server
- Lowest Cost - Best Performance / Watt / $ / ft2
- Start as a pro by leveraging expertize support and services
Enterprise support for Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes is provided by Canonical in partnership with Supermicro whereby customers gain access to a global pool of knowledge & expertise. The partnership offers a Discovery and Design Service - together, we design your infrastructure to the required size and specifications.
Supermicro Total Solutions for Canonical with Kubernetes Containers
DataCenter Design, Validation and Bootstrapping Services (SVC-OCKAI-01) Supermicro Rack Integration Service* Supermicro Onsite Support
15 1 12
* Racking & Cabling (with 3rd party switches); Racking & Cabling Engineering Drawing; Supermicro will not be responsible for 3rd party switch configuration.
Networking Options (with 10, 25, or 40GB Data Switches)
Standard configurations include two types of Ethernet switches - one for consolidation of management/IPMI traffic and another for use in networking data traffic. The management switch is common to all three system options. The data switch options range from a 10Gbps switch at the "Value" option, to a 25Gbps switch for the “Balanced” option, and a 40Gbps switch in the "Performance" option.
10 GbE Data Network with Cumulus OS3
25 GbE Data Network with SMIS OS
40 GbE Data Network with Cumulus OS3
Qty
Management Switch
SSE-G3648B
SSE-G3648B
SSE-G3648B
2
Data Switch
SSE-X3648S
SSE-F3548S
SSE-C3632S
2
Infrastructure Node NICs
AOC-STGF-I2S-O
AOC-S25G-M2S
AOC-S40GI2Q
6 (2 Per Node x3)
Cloud Node NICs
AOC-STGF-I2S-O
AOC-S25G-M2S
AOC-S40GI2Q
12 (2 Per Node x6)
Software Licenses (for networking)
Management Switch Software perpetual license with 3 yr service/support
SFT-CLSPL1G-3Y1
SFT-SMCPL1G2
SFT-CLSPL1G-3Y1
2
Data Switch Software perpetual license with 3 yr service/support
SFT-CLSPL10G-3Y1
Included with switch2
SFT-CLSPL100G-3Y1
2
1 - The 10 GbE Data switch and 40 GbE Data switch options require a Cumulus OS for all switches in the solution. The Cumulus OS licenses for both the data and management switches are obtained through Supermicro using the provided SKUs.
2 - The 25 GbE Data switch option requires the Supermicro (SMIS) OS for all switches in the solution. The SMIS OS for the management switch is obtained using the provided SKU. The SMIS OS for the data switch is included with the switch.
3 - Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale: www.cumulusnetworks.com/products/cumulus-linux/
Additional Services that can be purchased
Additional Services
Supermicro Onsite Integration Service** Ubuntu Advantage Server - Essential / Standard / Advanced Server (Min. Purchase 5) Ubuntu Advantage Professional Service (Per Week) Ubuntu Bootstack Program (Daily) Ubuntu BootStack Professional Services (Per Week) Ubuntu Advantage Travel & Expenses (Per Week) Ubuntu BootStack CEPH / Swift Storage Add-on (Per GB per Month actual stored data)
** Please consult with Supermicro Solution Team for this service. Any parts purchased individually without full testing and certification may not be fit for this solution. Please also note not every service above is mandatory. Supermicro solution team is willing to help you build the right solutions anytime.
• System: SYS-6029U-TR4T • 36 (2 * 18) Cores • 512 (16 * 32) GB RAM • 8TB (2x 4TB), SATA HDD • Intel DC P4610 1.6TB NVMe PCIe 3.1 (Cache) • 2 RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports; 1 RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port * Make sure to add data disks and "NICs for data" separately
SYS-6029U-DCCN-01 (Cluster Role: Cloud Node)
• System: SYS-6029U-TR4T • 32 (2 * 16) Cores • 384 (12 * 32) GB RAM • 12 TB (2x 6TB) SATA HDD • Intel DC P4610 1.6TB NVMe PCIe 3.1 (Cache) • 2 RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports; 1 RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port * Make sure to add data disks and "NICs for data" separately
Supermicro Software Defined Storage Solutions
The storage landscape is evolving from premium priced proprietary hardware and software solutions to open industry standard hardware and the benefits are significant: reduced vendor lock-in, significantly open innovation with new technologies like all NVMe solutions. Supermicro's extensive storage platform of choice for leading storage vendors and major hyperscale datacenters.
Supermicro delivers significant benefits to Software Defined Storage Solutions:
Maximum Efficiency - High capacity 1U-4U form factors. Leading the industry with up 95% efficient Platinum level power supplies
Maximum Performance and expandability - All NVMe support with hybrid expander and delivering up to 20 GB/s throughput
Mission Critical Reliability - Capable of fully redundant and fault-tolerant operation with supplies, fans and redundant serverboards with remote management
Proven Compatibility - Lab validated hardware configurations optimized for high duty cycles workloads
There is a tremendous amount of information driven by the ever changing applications, from structured, unstructured, to semi-structure data. Conventional IT infrastructure is not built to handle the variety, velocity and volume of the data produced by social media networks, mobile applications, machine sensors and scientific researches, etc. For Enterprises, utilizing big data analytics is no longer a question of when, it is a question of how. Hadoop, designed for the cost effective storage and processing of large volumes of data, is born for this purpose. It can linearly scale up to thousands of servers and petabytes of storage.
How to take advantage of Hadoop technology and gain competitive edge is on the mind of almost every corporate CIO. For enterprises, how to deploy the Hadoop infrastructure efficiently means winning or losing in the big battle of market share. Enterprises deploying Hadoop solutions often spend large amount of resource searching for the best architecture and the most capable solution provider. This is where Supermicro comes in to help.
The Solution
Introducing Supermicro Hadoop clusters, a series of optimized big data solutions that provide high performance, high reliability and high scalability. Supermicro Hadoop solutions are fully integrated, fully optimized and completely tested turnkey clusters with flexible support packages available to meet customer specific requirements.
Supermicro Hadoop clusters feature industry proven high density compute and storage servers populated with best of breed components selected through extensive engineering design, validation and testing. Certified configurations take the guess work out of designing and deploying a truly scalable Big Data compute and storage infrastructure that meets the most demanding enterprise IT and data center environments.
Supermicro Advantage
- Designed from ground up with optimal server and cluster configurations that meet a variety of workloads
- Proven solutions based on extensive lab testing and large scale production deployments
- Achieve the best price/performance and the best price/capacity with industry leading server and storage platforms
- End to end turnkey Hadoop clusters with completely integrated HW, SW and Global Support
- Advanced architecture based on the latest technologies such as SkyLake CPUs, SAS3, NvMe, Optane Drives
- Enhanced networking performance and redundancy with dual 10GbE / 25GbE / 40GbE / 100GbE options
- Automated full cluster testing guarantees build quality and delivery schedule
Fully Integrated Hadoop Cluster
Key Features and benefits
Purpose built cluster configurations optimized for capacity, compute or IO performance
High availability Name Node design with no single point of failure
Large memory options designed specifically for Spark and other in memory, low latency computations
Hyper-Scale server platforms designed for extremely large deployments
High density compute, storage and memory design to achieve the best efficiency and lowest TCO
Flexible network switch options with 1 or 2x 10G / 25G / 100G switches per rack.
Cost effective 14U rack design, ideal for Proof of Concept testing environment
Standard 42U rack design and flexible PDU options that meet any data center environment
Up to Titanium Level (96%+) Efficiency - Redundant Power Supplies with PMBus
Built in with IPMI and SMC OOB(out of band management) suite for automated cluster management
Fully integrated, fully configured and completely tested with Hadoop distributions of your choice
Proof of Concept testing cluster available for risk free purchasing experience
Optimized Data nodes 2U SSG, 2U BigTwin or 4U FatTwin with Skylake 41xx / 51xx / 61xx / 81xx processors, dual 10G / 25G / 40G per node, 2.5" and 3.5" HDD options
Standard 42U rack with metered PDUs, rack customization options available
Integration service includes full cluster Burn-in and testing, BIOS and FW update, networking configuration, Pre-install Hadoop distribution of choice, and full cluster
• HW fault alerts - E-mail or SNMP • Redundant access for management • Support for open standards (SMASH 2.0, LDAP, WSMAN) • VLAN support • KVM and Virtual Media and SOL (no additional license needed) • Easy maintenance (Command line flash tools for firmware update)
Supermicro Integration and Proof of Concept Laboratory Services- See details
Supermicro High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions
Technological advances in the recent era such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning have led to a growing demand for computational power. At Supermicro, we understand that our customers need solutions that are capable of keeping up with today's compute demands, and that are proven to give them a greater competitive advantage. To take on these challenges, Supermicro offers customized solution designs that meet and exceed even the most daunting challenges in HPC design and deployment.
From practical and efficient clusters to supercomputers, our extensive lineup of high performance servers and storage products allow us to create unique configurations to tackle any elastic workload. Supermicro's First-to-Market strategy guarantees that our customers always benefit from the latest and greatest technologies.
Supermicro is actively innovating in building HPC solutions. From design to implementation, we optimize every aspect of each solution. Our advantages include a wide range of building blocks, from motherboard design, to system configuration, to fully integrated rack and liquid cooling systems. Using these tremendous array of versatile building blocks, we focus on providing solutions tailored to the customers’ need. At Supermicro, we take pride in building HPC solutions from the ground up.
Supermicro can tailor HPC solutions to meet any variety of workloads: compute intensive, high throughput, or high capacity storage applications used in different industries. Supermicro HPC systems can be bundled with a variety of open source platform and commercial applications, making it a truly turnkey solution.
- First-To Market Advantage. Supermicro is always the first to release the newest server platform with new technology. First-to-Market strategy guarantees that our customers always benefit from the latest and greatest technologies.
- High Density. Supermicro's unique line-up of high performance servers enables us to build powerful HPC systems that can reach extremely high density with minimal facility foot print.
- Scalability. Extremely scalable cluster design with hyper-scale server, highly scalable switching fabric, high capacity power and cooling.
- Energy Efficient. Platinum rated power supplies, and liquid cooling options facilitate cost savings in energy and favor advantages in PUE.
- Cost Effective. Supermicro has configurable solutions to a great granularity that can adapt to any budget. This results in an incredibly appealing TCO.
1. HPC - High Performance Computing FatTwin with Omni-Path.
This HPC RA utilizes Supermicro's high density FatTwin server along with Supermicro's Omni-Path switch in a Fat Tree topology. This design can achieve Petaflops of computational power, and along with large memory bank, it can undertake the most demanding HPC tasks. The premium FatTwin system offers high density compute performance, storage capacity and power efficiency.
Compute Power:
System: SYS-F619P2-RT (4U 8Nodes)
CPU: Dual Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, up to 56 Cores/ Node (3584 cores/ 42U Rack)
Memory: Up to 1.5TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM, 1.5TB ECC RDIMM, DDR4 up to 2666MHz
Ultimate Scalability: 64 Compute Nodes per 42U-Rack, 48 1U standalone switches can support up to 1,536 compute nodes!
Networking:
Switch: Intel 100G 48-port Omni-Path TOR switch with management card. High switching capacity of 9.6 Tb/s total fabric bandwidth
L 2/3 Switch: 1/10 Gb Ethernet Superswitch, 48 x 1 Gbps and 4 x SPF+ 10 Gbps Ethernet ports
Cost Efficiency: The FatTwin architecture makes each HPC cluster extremeley cost efficient!
Cooling:
RDHx (rear Door Heat Exchangers) chiiler doors for highly efficient cooling, up to 75kW cooling capacity oer rack
2. Reference Architecture - TwinPro plus Dragonfly/InfiniBand
This design utilizes the speed and efficiency of the TwinPro along with Mellanox Infiniband networking in a dragonfly topology. The dragonfly topology minimizes network diameter and maximizes bandwidth allowing for a speedy and robust MPI system to be built on top.
Compute Power:
System: SYS-2028TP-HTR (2U 4Nodes, total 64 Nodes/ 42U Rack)
CPU: Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4/v3 family, Up to 44 cores/node (2,816 cores per 42U Rack)
Memory: Up to 2TB† ECC 3DS LRDIMM, 512GB ECC RDIMM, and 64 GB DDR4 LRDIMM-2666.
Extremely High Bandwidth: The Dragonfly architecture along with InfiniBand switches ensure low latency and the maximum effective fabric bandwidth by eliminating congestion hot spots!
As HPC and AI intertwine more and more, the future of computation with high precision is getting brighter. Fascinating and completely new discoveries in some of the most complex HPC domains are enabled by AI's deep learning capabilities! To keep up with the increasing demand of computational power for applications that combine HPC with AI, Supermicro offers versatile cluster solutions with high scalability and configurability.
Compute Power:
System: SYS-4029GP-TVRT (Supermicro Super Server, 4U 8 GPU)
GPU: 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 SXM2(16GB) MAX: Up to 32GB
NVLINK: High-speed interconnect 300GB/s per GPU
Memory: DDR4-2666 32GB, total 384GB
CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
Solution SKU:
SRS-14UGPU-AIV1-01: 14U Rack, 2 x 4U GPU server with 16 V100
SRS-24UGPU-AIV1-01: 24U Rack, 4 x 4U GPU server with 32 V100
L 2/3 Switch: SSE-G3648BR (1/10 Gb Ethernet Superswitch). 48 x 1 Gbps and 4 x SPF+ 10 Gbps Ethernet ports
AI Benchmarks:
Supermicro HPC team has accomplished remarkable results in benchmarking AI performance. The performance of Supermicro AI appliances have been evaluated using various and widely used Deep Learning algorithms such as VGG, Inception V3, ResNet 50 etc. Most of the times, our appliances have outperformed the popular and current choices of AI clusters that are available in the market. For example, the following TensorFlow benchmark (using ResNet 50) shows successful processing of almost 18000 images per second.
TensorFlow Benchmark
Our HPC team has also compared the performance of Supermicro AI appliances with other leading market leaders of AI hardware provider, and the results were significantly impressive and better. For example, the following Caffe2 benchmark (using ResNet 50) shows that Supermicro AI cluster solution can process significantly more images per second compared to Facebook:
Caffe2 Benchmark
Turnkey HPC appliance for ANSYS:
The Ansys software suite provides a standardized platform for engineers to design and run simulations in an efficient manner. Supermicro has teamed up with Ansys to provide hardware tailored specifically to the Ansys application in order to get the optimum performance from Ansys products. With Supermicro's Ansys Solution, the turn-around time between designing, running, and seeing the results of a simulation are dramatically reduced, which will allow engineering teams to expedite the development process.
The Supermicro Ansys Solution is designed to efficiently utilize the Ansys software suite and comes in a few different packages, from small and cost effective to a large cluster with ample horsepower. The Supermicro Ansys Solution contains high performance components which have been carefully selected to minimize bottlenecking in even the most strenuous simulations to ensure that the end user will get full utilization of each hardware component no matter what the circumstance. Hardware features include:
- Top end CPUs for maximum computation power
- Large memory allows for increasingly large datasets
- SSD/NVMe drives for quick and efficient storage
- High end networking for seamless synchronization at a cluster level
- GPUs for complex mathematical computation
- Fully integrated hardware/software stack for plug-and-play
Spectrum Scale provides a datacenter with a flexible storage platform that allows the end user access to enormous amounts of data at incredibly high speeds. The secret to Scale's performance is a tiered storage hierarchy which prioritizes frequently used data to the fastest storage tiers while maintaining the rest of the data on more cost-effective storage devices for on-demand access. IBM Spectrum Scale intelligent storage rules allow for the user to customize the use of their hardware depending on their needs.
Supermicro offers Spectrum Scale based Solutions for HPC applications.
2. Lustre File System
Lustre is a parallel file system that provides speeds necessary for HPC workloads from petabytes of storage. Lustre Solution allows for thousands of clients to access storage devices on demand. This solution is made possible by decoupling the metadata and data on servers, which means that the customer can design and tailor their cluster depending on the workload that they will be running. Lustre has been time-tested in a number of the world's largest datacenters, in fact, Lustre currently powers 75% of top 100 supercomputers on Earth. Supermicro has paired up with Intel and BGI in order to provide the BGI laboratories with a Lustre system capable of 8Gb/s speeds!
- Best TCO with Highest Performance-per-Watt/per-Dollar
- FatTwin™ represents a revolution in Green Computing and is highly efficient by design
- This system supports customers' critical applications while reducing Data Center TCO in order to help preserve the environment, and extends the compute and storage capabilities
- Due to its shared components, the FatTwin™ improves cost-effectiveness and reliability, while its modular architecture makes it flexible to configure and easy to maintain
- Ultra Super Servers are designed to deliver the highest performance, flexibility, scalability and serviceability to demanding IT environments, and to power mission-critical Enterprise workloads
- The perfect fit for diverse workloads and applications and can be easily reconfigured for multiple Enterprise and Data Center applications in Virtualization, Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Computing
Intel's Omni-Path technology is the next generation of networking. With low latency and high throughput, the Intel Omni-Path switches offer the best of both worlds. We recommend Supermicro Intel® Omni-Path to any HPC customer who is concerned about their network performance being an issue.
Mellanox InfiniBand (IB)
Mellanox’s InfiniBand switches are another excellent choice when it comes to high speed interconnect for HPC. HPC requires low latency and high throughput in networking and that is exactly what InfiniBand offers.
Supermicro HPC server platforms provide built-in Mellanox EDR or FDR adaptors or optional SIOMs.
Supermicro HPC Cluster Integration and Benchmarking [ top ]
HPC solutions can only perform as good as their weakest link. Therefore, from cache coherence and check pointing to resource management, it is important that each hardware component is performing at optimum to ensure that the entire cluster will meet expectations. Supermicro has developed a unique testing suite that starts at the component level and builds out. This testing suite allows our engineers to catch and troubleshoot any discrepancies in performance that may be found and to make appropriate changes to ensure the overall quality of the final cluster.
The Supermicro testing suite is designed to cover the entire product from end-to-end, meaning that it encompasses both fine-grained details as well as cluster-level testing. This process reduces the amount of time and effort, allowing our product to reach the customer site ready to plug-and-play.
The Supermicro Benchmarking team is here to show off our products to you! To give our customers a gauge of the raw power our products are capable of, we offer an array of fine grained, per-component base, as well as cluster level benchmarking. The benchmarking numbers generated by our team help out our end customers in understanding the full potential of the product that they will be using and give insight into the capabilities of their cluster. Our benchmarking process is custom designed around the software and workloads that the customer will be using to operate their cluster. The process gives further assurance that the cluster will be ready to go as soon as it is unpacked and plugged in.
The list below contains our standard benchmarks, but we are happy to do others as well. If you have a benchmark that you are interested in but do not see on the list, please feel free to contact us for enquiry.
Our HPC products generate a lot of computation power, which consequently produces excess heat. Luckily, Supermicro has teamed up with the best in the business and is happy to offer cooling equipment from our partners.
We offer liquid cooling systems, the most innovative cooling technology for HPC installations. Today, as the number of servers continues to multiply and power usage grows exponentially, liquid cooling remains the most efficient cooling solution. It enables high-density server racks and increases data center power usage effectiveness (PUE)—a winning combination. Forced-air cooling has outlived its effectiveness, and the industry now gravitates toward warm-water cooling to tap next-generation server technologies while lowering power usage.
In fact, liquid cooling lowers TCO by 40 to 50 percent compared to forced-air cooling. It has also been shown to yield a ten-fold improvement in server density without harmful tradeoffs. Other benefits include whisper-quiet operation and no stranded power. There is no need to provision power for fan energy at maximum speed.
Advanced HPC specializes in liquid cooling systems for data centers, servers, workstations and high-performance PCs. For HPC installations, our direct-to-chip technology applies liquid cooling technology directly on the chip itself. Since liquid is 4,000 times better at storing and transferring heat than air, our solutions provide immediate and measurable benefits to large and small data centers alike.
Chiller Door - RDHx
The RDHx chiller door is designed to handle a dynamic workload. It runs cold when your servers are hot, but when your servers are idle, it will dial back the amount of cooling in order to save energy. This design is possible due to the chiller door’s sensor technology, which is responsible for monitoring the heat from the exhaust of the rack and react accordingly. The chiller door is an effective solution in keeping your servers cold while keeping your energy bill low!
Direct Liquid Cooling - DCLC
DCLC liquid cooling is our state of the art solution in cooling. The liquid cooling system is capable of regulating the overall temperature of hardware components in a more effective and efficient manner than any air chilling system is capable of. The liquid cooling system can be installed in any datacenter with no additional infrastructure changes and can be installed in the same racks as air cooled servers. The liquid cooling system allows CPU/GPUs to be run at maximum wattage and utilizes a low pressure, redundant pumping system to keep your equipment reliably cold.
Supermicro Solutions on Top 500 / Green 500 [ top ]
Supermicro® is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and Green Computing. The company is committed to protecting the environment through its “We Keep IT Green®” initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.
The Green500 ranks the world’s top 500 most energy-efficient supercomputers. The list below are the latest Green500 supercomputers using Supermicro systems.
#187 National Centre for Nuclear Research ?wierk Computing Centre - Supermicro TwinBlade SBI-7227R/Bull DLC B720, Intel Xeon E5-2680v2/E5-2650 v3 10C 2.8GHz, Infiniband QDR/FDR
#151 National Centre for Nuclear Research Swierk Computing Centre - Supermicro TwinBlade SBI-7227R/Bull DLC B720, Intel Xeon E5-2680v2/E5-2650 v3 10C 2.8GHz, Infiniband QDR/FDR
Supermicro® is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and Green Computing. The company leads the industry in breadth of computing solutions designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Supercomputing applications.
The Top500 ranks the world’s top energy-efficient supercomputers every June and November. The list below highlights Supermicro’s latest heterogeneous system architecture (CPU/GPU) supercomputing solutions featuring GPU & Xeon Phi coprocessor technologies.
#400 National Centre for Nuclear Research ?wierk Computing Centre - Supermicro TwinBlade SBI-7227R/Bull DLC B720, Intel Xeon E5-2680v2/E5-2650 v3 10C 2.8GHz, Infiniband QDR/FDR
#155 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland Swierk Computing Centre - Supermicro TwinBlade SBI-7227R/Bull DLC B720, Intel Xeon E5-2680v2/E5-2650 v3 10C 2.8GHz, Infiniband QDR/FDR Format, Bull, Atos Group
#226 Universitaet Frankfurt Germany LOEWE-CSC - SuperServer 2022TG-GIBQRF, Opteron 6172 12C 2.1GHz, Infiniband QDR, ATI HD 5870, Clustervision/Supermicro
Supermicro has developed a line of fully configured GPU server solutions to address the rapidly growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market. These solutions include a Supermicro 1U, 2U, FatTwin™, or 4U Tower SuperServer® configured with 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4/v3 CPUs, up to 3TB ECC DDR4-2400MHz memory in 24 DIMM slots per node, and NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs based on the Volta, Pascal, and Maxwell architectures which deliver best-in-class virtual desktop experience to users anytime and anywhere.
VDI has become increasingly popular with the broadened availability of mobile broadband, higher bandwidth, more compute power in modern mobile devices, higher display resolutions and a trend of BYOD within enterprises. NVIDIA virtual GPU software runs on NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs and is based on NVIDIA Volta, NVIDIA Pascal™, and NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU architectures.
- Best Windows 10 VDI user Experience. E-Book Download
- Live Migration. Ensure continuous uptime by migrating live, GPU-accelerated VMs, with no impact to the user and no loss of data.
- Simplified Deployment. Easily understand GPU utilization during the assessment and proof-of-concept phase and ensure an optimized user experience from day one.
- Multiple Monitor. Support multiple HD displays and up to two 4K-resolution displays to expand your workspace, enhance multi-tasking, and increase productivity.
- Native-PC Experience. Utilize NVIDIA GRID software with Tesla GPUs to deliver responsive, virtual workspaces that perform like native PCs to every user.
- Linux OS Applications. Deliver the benefits of like-native performance of VDI environments to software developers and EDA designers that rely on a Linux-based development environment.
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Editions
NVIDIA virtual GPU has three different products designed to let you assign the right level of resources to each of your users based on their exact needs.
Feature
GRID vApps
GRID vPC
Quadro vDWS
Use Case
Use with Citrix XenApp or other RDSH solutions like VMware Horizon Apps.
For virtual desktops delivering standard PC applications, browser, and high definition video.
For professional graphics applications mainstream and high-end designers.
An annual subscription is active for a fixed period as defined by the terms of the subscription license. To be kept active, the license will need to be renewed at the end of the subscription period. Annual subscription includes software license and SUMS.
A perpetual license allows for use of the licensed software indefinitely. Users that opt to license using this model are required to subscribe to SUMS for the first year. The SUMS subscription can renewed on a yearly basis after the expiring of the initial subscription.
Purchase is available from Supermicro now! If you are not sure which NVIDIA vGPU product or license to choose? Please contact us now and discover how Supermicro servers with NVIDIA vGPU technology accelerate the most demanding workflows.
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Hardware
NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software runs on NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs and is based on NVIDIA Volta, NVIDIA Pascal™, and NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU architectures. Match your needs with the right GPU below.
Recommended NVIDIA GPUs for Different Use Cases
Data Sheet
TESLA V100 TESLA P100
High-end professional graphics users; includes use for double-precision compute workloads (e.g., running 3D models and design workflows, intensive computer-aided engineering [CAE] simulations)
Overview [ top ]
• 2x 10GBase-T ports via Intel X540, 1 Dedicated IPMI port
