SOLUTION BRIEF

UNLEASH THE FUTURE OF
INNOVATION WITH HPC & AI
Transforming businesses with a new class ofSupermicro and NVIDIA high-performance solutions
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Unlocking Business Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The New Wave of HPC and AI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Success Built on Unparalleled
Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
World-Class Solutions for HPC and AI. . . . . 3
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SUPERMICROSupermicro (Nasdaq: SMCI), the leading
innovator in high-performance, highefficiency server and storage technology,
is a premier provider of advanced server
Building Block Solutions® for Enterprise
Data Center, Cloud Computing, Artificial
Intelligence, and Edge Computing Systems
worldwide. Supermicro is committed toprotecting the environment through its“We Keep IT Green®” initiative andprovides customers with the most energyefficient, environmentally-friendlysolutions available on the market.

Data is the driving force for success in the global marketplace. Data volumes areerupting in size and complexity as organizations work to collect, analyze, andderive intelligence from a growing number of sources and devices. These
workloads are critical to powering applications that translate insight intobusiness value.
High-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing
the way businesses operate, allowing them to use their data to extract deeper
insights, enhance processes, and realize better outcomes. However, executing
these tasks is a major concern for today’s organizations. Data analytics, HPC, AI,machine learning, and deep learning workloads require massive levels of power
and flexibility, which rapidly exceed the capacity of traditional infrastructure. In
order to succeed, businesses must invest in a new breed of technology that candeliver revolutionary performance and breakneck speeds. Cutting-edge
solutions from Supermicro and NVIDIA are enabling customers to transform andcapitalize on HPC and AI innovation.

Unlocking Business Insights
The rise of HPC and AI is triggering a fundamental shift in numerous industries.
Businesses utilize these capabilities to drive improvements across theiroperations by boosting productivity and efficiency, as well as accelerating
insights to solve their most significant challenges. HPC and AI are the foundation
for a variety of applications such as modeling and simulation, genome
sequencing, real-time and predictive analytics, autonomous driving, and climate
monitoring.

As HPC and AI become increasingly intertwined,businesses will continue to leverage their data in newways.
Legacy infrastructure is the biggest roadblock to dataintensive applications. To overcome this pain point,
businesses adopt the latest technological advances tosatisfy escalating demands on compute. Innovation is
crucial to unlocking future insights, and the ideal
solutions will equip businesses with extreme capacity,agility, and flexibility to optimize any workload.

Supermicro has extended its leadership in the GPU servermarket, with the broadest portfolio of high-performancetechnologies to keep pace with the increasing demand ofHPC and AI applications. From practical and efficient
clusters to accelerated computing, our comprehensive
offerings empower businesses to build the ideal solution
for their needs.
At Supermicro, we deliver significant value with anextensive lineup of highly configurable and sustainable
technologies, featuring fundamental building blocks that
help customers succeed.

The New Wave of HPC and AI
As industries recognize the need for advanced
technologies to support widespread HPC and AI usage,
the next generation of accelerated computing has
emerged, offering unprecedented performance. Purposebuilt solutions for HPC and AI are redefining the modern
enterprise. Backed by the massively parallel processing
power of GPUs, businesses can enhance how they work,collaborate, and solve problems:• Faster Data Movement – Greater bandwidth to move
massive volumes of data.
• Workload Optimization – Adapt quickly as workloads
grow in size, scope, and complexity.
• Performance at Scale – High throughput and low
latency to ensure peak levels of efficiency.
• Technology Standardization – Centralized frameworks
to simplify IT and increase cost savings.
As the requirements for HPC and AI continue to evolve,
Supermicro is committed to helping businesses
transform their operating environments. Our accelerated
computing solutions provide the right balance of density
and speed to manage diverse workloads while reducing
time-to-insight. These groundbreaking platforms
leverage the third generation NVIDIA® Tensor Core GPUs
to enable maximum acceleration at every scale, socustomers can harness the full potential of HPC and AI.

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Supermicro is the foremost developer of new solutions,guaranteeing that customers will benefit competitively
from the latest technologies and capabilities through ourfirst-to-market advantage. Supermicro solutions areproduced in the U.S., and with total control ofmanufacturing, we prioritize customer requirements andaccelerate time-to-market.
Our customers benefit from customizable solutions that
accommodate any budget. In conjunction with
Supermicro’s Green IT innovation, our solutions
dramatically extend sustainability for unbeatable priceperformance. Supermicro offers the best energy
efficiency on the market to fuel HPC and AI platforms ofall sizes. Our architectures optimize power consumption,
cooling, shared resources, and refresh cycles to ensure
top performance per dollar. Liquid cooling options
combined with Titanium Level power supplies offer an
efficiency rating of 96% and reduce TCO by as much as
40%–50%.
Now, businesses can operate with confidence, leveraging
solutions designed for high configurability, reliability, andflexibility to fit their needs. By integrating compute
power, NVIDIA GPUs, optimal storage, and networking
options, our robust platforms can reach extremely highrack density with minimal facility footprint. Customers
can implement tight configurations with unparalleled I/Ocapacity to maintain operational consistency for HPC andAI. This infrastructure makes it easy for businesses tocarry out today’s workloads and adapt for tomorrow’schallenges, regardless of their requirements.

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World-Class Solutions for HPC and AI
Supermicro’s portfolio enables next-generation
performance in any operating environment. We arecommitted to developing total computing innovations
that are customer-centric, providing a one-stop-shopwhere they can select and deploy a turnkey platform.
Now, Supermicro offers an array of GPU accelerated
computing solutions to help customers meet and exceed
even the most daunting challenges of HPC and AI.

2U w/ NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU

Supermicro’s adaptable, fastest-to-market servers
powered by unmatched NVIDIA® A100® Tensor Core GPUs
allow businesses to tackle diverse tasks with ease—fromrunning AI inference on developed models, to HPC, to AI
training requests. Fully integrated solutions deliver asignificant performance boost across Supermicro’s
extensive of 1U, 2U, 4U, and 10U multi-GPU servers,
providing leading compute capacity and agility for data
analytics, HPC, AI, machine learning, and deep learning.
Servers with NVIDIA A100 power applications from edge
to cloud, creating the world’s most powerful accelerated
platforms for AI featured in the Supermicro NVIDIA HGX
A100 8-GPU Platform and Supermicro NVIDIA HGX A100 4GPU Platform. Additionally, our newly unveiled NVIDIA
A100 PCI-E form factor offers high versatility acrossmultiple configurations, including the Supermicro NVIDIA
A100 PCI-E AMD Platform, Supermicro NVIDIA A100 Ultra
AMD Platform, and Supermicro NVIDIA A100 Blade AMD
Platform to expedite data-heavy workloads.
Our offerings utilize NVIDIA Mellanox end-to-end Ethernet
and InfiniBand interconnected solutions to run complex
workloads with outstanding levels of speed andfunctionality in data centers and the cloud. NVIDIA
Mellanox network technologies are the best choice toconnect the world’s top HPC and AI accelerated
computing platforms. The addition of NVIDIA® NVLink™
and NVIDIA NVSwitch™ enhances interconnection
consistency by providing higher bandwidth, more links,
and improved scalability for multi-GPU server
configurations to ensure seamless communication
between components in addition to the fastest dataspeed, lowest latency, and resiliency.

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4U w/ NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU

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Conclusion
The expansion of HPC and AI poses new and risingchallenges for today’s businesses. Savvy organizations

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are empowering their operating environments with GPU
accelerated computing to tap into their data and extract
game-changing insights.
Supermicro and NVIDIA are preparing our customers for
success, offering the right technologies to make the leap.
We prioritize the advancement of HPC and AI bycontinually testing, validating, and integrating advanced
hardware featuring optimized software components tosupport a rising number of use cases. Backed by anextensive partner ecosystem, Supermicro’s unrivaled
computing solutions are expertly engineered to achieve
faster intelligence, superior outcomes, and provensustainability for ongoing innovation.

2U Ultra w/ 2x NVIDIA A100 GPU

This is your time to transform. Visit Supermicro online tolearn how you can harness the full power HPC and AI.

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