INDUSTRY
Cloud Hosting for Gaming

CHALLENGES• Increased Demand required
innovative solutions tomaintain.
• Server footprints weregrowing, requiring newtechnology to solve.

Introduction
Nitrado is a leading global game server and application hosting provider that focuses on
DDoS-protected and low latency server hosting for all platforms. Nitrado provides theinfrastructure and expertise that turns excellent games into amazing multiplayer
experiences and is the first choice for game developers all across the industry.
Nitrado operates data centers worldwide, with new data centers recently coming online
in Tokyo, Japan, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Other existing data centers include Frankfurt,Germany, EU, London, United Kingdom, EU, New York, United States, NA, Miami, UnitedStates, NA, Los Angeles, United States, NA, Sydney, Australia, Singapore, Asia, andMoscow, Russia.
Nitrado uses the latest systems from Supermicro to deliver the highest performance atlower costs than many competitors. Their unique approach allows customers to set up
game servers in 60 seconds and get gaming faster. In addition, Nitrado develops all of
the applications used and can modify applications to take advantage of the latest© Copyright 2021 Supermicro

technologies. Nitrado's latest servers from Supermicro contain the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon®
Scalable processors.

Challenges
With the increased demand for high performance games increasing, Nitrado data center
managers knew that they needed upgrades to the servers that run the games forthousands of users. Managing the game's logic with extremely low latency is a primaryconcern for high end games that involve simulations. As the number of users connectedto the Nitrado data center increased, the engineers at Nitrado realized that a newgeneration of servers would be required to maintain strict Service Level Agreements fortheir customers. In addition, keeping costs low for the compute and storage
infrastructure was critical. To deliver high end performance to its customers, Nitrado
needed to get more work performed per watt of electricity, necessitating integrating
systems with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Solution
SOLUTION•

Supermicro BigTwin®
Servers with 3rd Gen
Intel Xeon Scalable
processors•

Intel® Optane™ PMem•Intel® P4610 NVMe
Storage

BENEFITSReduced footprint as more data
can be held in memory in asingle server
Increased number of sessions
concurrently
Lower latencies for increased
gaming performance

Nitrado is a long-time customer ofSupermicro, using many generations ofmotherboards and systems. Nitrado foundthat Supermicro had several advantages overmany other established server vendors. One
key advantage is that Supermicro delivered
servers with the latest technology faster thanother vendors and had a robust early ship
Image 1 - Supermicro BigTwin(R) Server –program. In addition, the competitive
Front View
pricing on systems that included thenewest CPU and related technologies wasof high importance to Nitrado.
As part of the latest system upgrade, Nitrado chose the Supermicro BigTwin® Servers
due to the ability to house eight CPUs in a 2U system
SystemProcessor

Supermicro
220BT-HNTR

2 x 3rd GenIntel®
Xeon®
Scalable
processor
6348
2 x 2nd Gen
Intel Xeon
Scalable
processor
6240R

Supermicro
2029BT-HNTR

Intel®
Optane™
PersistentMemory(PMem)
8 x 128 GBIntel Optane
PMem 200
Series Per
Node
8 x 128 GBIntel Optane
PMem 100
Series Per
Node

NVMe Storage

1.6 TB Intel® SSD DC P4610

1.6TB Intel® SSD DC P4610

Table 1 - Supermicro Systems Specifications

Four separate nodes can be housed in a Supermicro BigTwin, leading to an increased
density of the CPUs (per RU). Each of the nodes can be hot-swapped, reducing overall© Copyright 2021 Supermicrosystem downtime. In addition, the power consumption is reduced, compared toindustry standard rackmount servers by sharing power supplies and cooling fans.

Image 2 - Supermicro BigTwin Capacities

Nitrado also uses several Supermicro's MicroCloud servers, specifically: MicroCloud
5039MC-H12TRF Intel E-2288G / 128GB RAM / 800GB M.2 NVMe.
The Supermicro BigTwin® systems provide superior performance and serviceability withdual 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors per node and hot-swappable toollessdesign. The latest generation of these servers also houses PCI-E 4.0 Storage Controller
Options. The Multi-node BigTwin systems share components that offer more costeffective compute & storage arrays than entry-level 1U servers. In addition, the BigTwin
systems are available with All-Flash/NVMe Arrays. With security in mind, each node has adedicated BMC port, requiring unique credentials to access management controls,monitoring capabilities, analytics, and event logs.

Image 4 - Supermicro BigTwin Server - Rear View

Image 3 – Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem)© Copyright 2021 SupermicroIntel® Optane PMem provided Nitrado with additional memory to store frequently useddata that would not fit in DRAM but was still required for low latency responses. This
allowed Nitrado to reduce the number of servers that would have been needed,reducing the footprint, thus saving power and space. In addition, the Intel® Optane
PMem persistent memory reduced the overall costs of the solution while maintaining astrict SLA. Nitrado utilized the Intel Optane PMem in memory mode to keep moreessential data close to the CPU.

SUPERMICROSupermicro is a global leader inhigh performance, green
computing server technology
and innovation. We provide ourglobal customers withapplication-optimized servers
and workstations customized
with blade, storage, and GPU
solutions. Our products offer
proven reliability, superior
design, and one of theindustry’s broadest array of
product configurations, to fit
all computational need.
For more information, visit
https://www.supermicro.com"We appreciate the excellent relationship between our two companies,
which enables us to use early ship programs with the availability of thelatest hardware. Our customers and therefore also service quality has
the highest priority for us."

Marcel Bößendörfer - CEOBenefits
Nitrado can keep at the forefront of hosting the latest and most complex games evercreated. By modifying their homegrown applications to take advantage of theSupermicro X12 servers that contain the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors andIntel Optane persistent memory, SLA's, in terms of latency were easily met. Nitrado
expanded the number of concurrent users, solidifying its position as a worldwide leader
in interactive game hosting.
Nitrado decreased the number of systems needed to deliver an engaging experience totheir customers, which increases computing densities. With PMem, the CPUs are kept
busy rather than waiting for data, thus increasing the ROI of the systems. The TCO isreduced, and the savings can be passed on to customers. With an increase in theamount of directly addressable memory (DRAM + PMem), innovative and exciting games
can now be developed without the limits of previous generations of systems.

SummaryNitrado increased workloads and decreased latencies by implementing Supermicro
servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistentmemory. Using the latest technology allowed Nitrado to meet increasing demands fromits users while decreasing costs. With the newest technology from Supermicro and Intel,
Nitrado can offer advanced technology at an affordable price to its customers.
For more information, please visit:https://nitra.do/Success-Story-Intelwww.supermicro.com/X12
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/optane-dcpersistent-memory.html© Copyright 2021 Supermicro