1U 4 GPU Solution Extends Supermicro’s Leadership in Supercomputing Servers
GPU / Xeon Phi™ SuperServers Offer Superior Performance, Density and Efficiency

Supermicro Offers the Best Supercomputing
Servers

Supermicro Is the #1 Customer Choice forSupercomputing Servers

Supermicro continues to enable a highly scalable,energy efficient future for parallel computing with
our latest Green Supercomputing solutions.
Highlighting our expertise in maximizing computedensity, performance and power efficiency, ourlatest 1U SuperServer® supports up to four NVIDIAGPU or Intel® Xeon Phi™ accelerator cards and dualCPUs and is powered by our highest efficiency
redundant Titanium Level digital power supplies.

The Supermicro SYS-1028GQ is the clear winnerwhen compared with the Dell PowerEdge C4130, its
primary rival in the 1U 4 GPU supercomputing servermarket space. Supermicro’s superior CPU directconnect design optimizes signal integrity and airflow
to eliminate the GPU pre-heating, PCI-E extension
cables, and re-drivers that add to the Dell system’scomplexity, cost, extra power consumption, andlatency. Power efficiency is further enhanced by fully
redundant Titanium Level (96%+) power supplies,
while the Dell system employs lower wattage power
supplies with the potential for under-powering afully loaded system and degrading performance
when one power supply is unavailable. TheSupermicro SYS-1028GQ also supports up to 4x 2.5”
drive bays with fully redundant power supplies,
while the Dell system must eliminate one power
supply in order to add 2 additional 2.5” drive bays.
The Supermicro system is unique in supporting
NVIDIA GeForce GPU cards which may be requiredfor certain customer applications.

The new Supermicro SYS-1028GQ-TRT supports up
to 4 NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 dual-GPU accelerators (upto 300W) or Intel Xeon Phi™ with a streamlined
layout architecture that enables PCI-E direct connect
for best signal integrity as well as elimination ofcomplex cabling, repeaters, and GPU pre-heat for
maximum airflow and cooling. The system also
supports dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processors(up to 145W), up to 1TB ECC DDR4-2133MHz in 16
DIMM slots, front 2x 2.5” hot-swap SATA drive bays
plus 2x 2.5” internal drives, dual 10GBase-T ports
and intelligent, redundant 2000W (1+1) Titanium
Level high-efficiency power supplies. Thisarchitecture allows the SYS-1028GQ-TRT to operate
at high ambient temperatures, allowing customers
to save significant TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) andestablishing a best-in-class solution for the widest
range of customers’ supercomputing challenges.

Figure 1: SYS-1028GQ-TR(T) with 4 NVIDIA GPU cards
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Direct CPU
connection forlowest latency
and power
consumption
Front 2x 2.5”
Hot-swap andinternal 2x 2.5”
drive bays
Active GeForceGPU support
High Energy
Efficiency PowerSupplies
35°C Ambient
Temperature
Operation

Supermicro
SYS-1028GQ-TR(T)

DellPowerEdge C4130

Yes

Requires extra
re-driver chips
and cables

Yes

No(Sacrifices 1 PWSfor 2x 2.5” bays)

Yes

No

2000W fully
redundant
Yes

1600W redundant
when no hot-swap
HDDs installed
No(Conditional 25°Cambient)

Table 1: Competitive Comparison© 2015 Super Micro Computer, Inc.

July 2015

Supermicro Supercomputing Servers are Optimized
for Parallel Applications
Supermicro SYS-1028GQ supercomputing servers areoptimized for many processing-intensive, lowlatency, and TCO sensitive environments.

Supermicro SYS-1028GQ including Cloud andVisualization, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE, Medical Image
Processing, Computational Finance, and DeepLearning.

The ability to scale multiple systems into large highdensity deployments while optimizing TCO is a bigadvantage in the competitive and rapidly evolving
Oil and Gas industry.
Engineering and Scientific Research fields candramatically accelerate application performancewith minimal investment in development byexploiting the flexibility of Supermicro's
supercomputing servers that support up to 4x 2.5”
drive bays to store large user data sets.
The SYS-1028GQ high density compute platform isalso well-suited for High-Performance Computing
Clusters with its onboard 10GbE LAN support forhigh speed networking and energy efficiency tosupport large, highly scalable deployments.
Many other additional applications can benefit fromthe scalability, efficiency, and performance of theFigure 2: SYS-1028GQ-TR(T) with 4 Intel Xeon Phi™ cards

Supermicro Has the Widest and Deepest
Supercomputing Server Product Line
With an extensive range of SuperServer platforms in2U 6x, 4U 8x, 4U 4-node FatTwin™ 12x, and 7U
SuperBlade® supporting 30x GPU cards, Supermicrooffers an unrivaled range of flexible configurations tomeet any scale of supercomputing challenge.

Chart 1: Supermicro Supercomputing Server Product Line
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© 2015 Super Micro Computer, Inc.

July 2015