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Faster is better. Supermicro with 5th Gen AMD is faster

Supermicro servers powered by the latest AMD processors are up to 9 times faster than a previous generation, according to a recent benchmark.

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When it comes to servers, faster is just about always better.

With faster processors, workloads get completed in less time. End users get their questions answered sooner. Demanding high-performance computing (HPC) and AI applications run more smoothly. And multiple servers get all their jobs done more rapidly.

And if you’ve installed, set up or managed one of these faster systems, you’ll look pretty smart.

That’s why the latest benchmark results from Supermicro are so impressive, and also so important.

The tests show that Supermicro servers powered by the latest AMD processors are up to 9 times faster than a previous generation. These systems can make your customer happy—and make you look good.

SPEC Check

The benchmark in question are those of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp., better known as SPEC. It’s a nonprofit consortium that sets benchmarks for running complete applications.

Supermicro ran its servers on SPEC’s CPU 2017 benchmark, a suite of 43 benchmarks that measures and compare compute-intensive performance. All of them stress a system’s CPU, memory subsystem and compiler—emphasizing all three of these components working together, not just the processor.

To provide a comparative measure of integer and floating-point compute-intensive performance, the benchmark uses two main metrics. The first is speed, or how much time a server needs to complete a single task. The second is throughput, in which the server runs multiple concurrent copies.

The results are given as comparative scores. In general, higher is better.

Super Server

The server tested was the Supermicro H14 Hyper server, model number AS 2126HS-TN. It’s powered by dual AMD EPYC 9965 processors and loaded with 1.5TB of memory.

This server has been designed for applications that include HPC, cloud computing, AI inferencing and machine learning.

In the floating-point measure, the new server, when compared with a SMC server powered by an earlier-gen AMD EPYC 7601, was 8x faster.

In the Integer Rate measure, compared with a circa 2018 SMC server, it’s almost 9x faster.

Impressive results. And remember, when it comes to servers, faster is better.

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Supermicro JumpStart remote test site adds latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors

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Supermicro JumpStart remote test site adds latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors

Register now to test the Supermicro H14 2U Hyper with dual AMD EPYC 9965 processors from the comfort and convenience of your office.

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Supermicro’s JumpStart remote test site will soon let you try out a server powered by the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors from any location you choose.

The server is the Supermicro H14 2U Hyper with dual AMD EPYC 9965 processors. It will be available for remote testing on the Supermicro JumpStart site starting on Dec. 2. Registration is open now.

The JumpStart site lets you use a Supermicro server solution online to validate, test and benchmark your own workloads, or those of your customers. And using JumpStart is free.

All test systems on JumpStart are fully configured with SSH (the Secure Socket Shell network protocol); VNC (Virtual Network Computing remote-access software); and Web IPMI (the Intelligent Platform Management Interface). During your test, you can open one session of each.

Using the Supermicro JumpStart remote testing site is simple:

Step 1: Select the system you want to test, and the time slot when you want to test it.

Step 2: At the scheduled time, login to the JumpStart site using your Supermicro single sign-on (SSO) account. If you don’t have an account yet, create one and then use it to login to JumpStart. (Creating an account is free.)

Step 3: Use the JumpStart site to validate, test and benchmark your workloads!

Rest assured, Supermicro will protect your privacy. Once you’re done testing a system on JumpStart, Supermicro will manually erase the server, reflash the BIOS and firmware, and re-install the OS with new credentials.

Hyper power

The AMD-powered server recently added to JumpStart is the Supermicro H14 2U Hyper, model number AS -2126HS-TN. It’s powered by dual AMD EPYC 9965 processors. Each of these CPUs offers 192 cores and a maximum boost clock of 3.7 GHz.

This Supermicro server also features 3.8TB of storage and 1.5TB of memory. The system is built in the 2U rackmount form factor.

Are you eager to test this Supermicro server powered by the latest AMD EPYC CPUs? JumpStart is here to help you.

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Supermicro FlexTwin now supports 5th gen AMD EPYC CPUs

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FlexTwin, part of Supermicro’s H14 server line, now supports the latest AMD EPYC processors — and keeps things chill with liquid cooling.

 

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Wondering about the server of the future? It’s available for order now from Supermicro.

The company recently added support for the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors on its 2U 4-node FlexTwin server with liquid cooling.

This server is part of Supermicro’s H14 line and bears the model number AS -2126FT-HE-LCC. It’s a high-performance, hot-swappable and high-density compute system.

Intended users include oil & gas companies, climate and weather modelers, manufacturers, scientific researchers and research labs. In short, anyone who requires high-performance computing (HPC).

Each 2U system comprises four nodes. And each node, in turn, is powered by a pair of 5th Gen AMD EPYC 9005 processors. (The previous-gen AMD EPYC 9004 processors are supported, too.)

Memory on this Supermicro FlexTwin maxes out at 9TB of DDR5, courtesy of up to 24 DIMM slots. Expansions connect via PCIe 5.0, with one slot per node the standard and more available as an option.

The 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, introduced last month, are designed for data center, AI and cloud customers. The series launched with over 25 SKUs offering up to 192 cores and all using AMD’s new “Zen 5” or “Zen 5c” architectures.

Keeping Cool

To keep things chill, the Supermicro FlexTwin server is available with liquid cooling only. This allows the server to be used for HPC, electronic design automation (EDA) and other demanding workloads.

More specifically, the FlexTwin server uses a direct-to-chip (D2C) cold plate liquid cooling setup, and each system also runs 16 counter-rotating fans. Supermicro says this cooling arrangement can remove up to 90% of server-generated heat.

The server’s liquid cooling also covers the 5th gen AMD processors’ more demanding cooling requirements; they’re rated at up to 500W of thermal design power (TDP). By comparison, some members of the previous, 4th gen AMD EPYC processors have a default TDP as low as 200W.

Build & Recycle

The Supermicro FlexTwin server also adheres to the company’s “Building Block Solutions” approach. Essentially, this means end users purchase these servers by the rack.

Supermicro says its Building Blocks let users optimize for their exact workload. Users also gain efficient upgrading and scaling.

Looking even further into the future, once these servers are ready for an upgrade, they can be recycled through the Supermicro recycling program.

In Europe, Supermicro follows the EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. In the U.S., recycling is free in California; users in other states may have to pay a shipping charge.

Put it all together, and you’ve got a server of the future, available to order today.

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AMD intros CPUs, accelerators, networking for end-to-end AI infrastructure -- and Supermicro supports

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AMD intros CPUs, accelerators, networking for end-to-end AI infrastructure -- and Supermicro supports

AMD expanded its end-to-end AI infrastructure products for data centers with new CPUs, accelerators and network controllers. And Supermicro is already offering supporting servers. 

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AMD today held a roughly two-hour conference in San Francisco during which CEO Lisa Su and other executives introduced a new generation of server processors, the next model in the Instinct MI300 Accelerator family, and new data-center networking devices.

As CEO Su told the audience the live and online audience, AMD is committed to offering end-to-end AI infrastructure products and solutions in an open, partner-dependent ecosystem.

Su further explained that AMD’s new AI strategy has 4 main goals:

  • Become the leader in end-to-end AI
  • Create an open AI software platform of libraries and models
  • Co-innovate with partners including cloud providers, OEMs and software creators
  • Offer all the pieces needed for a total AI solution, all the way from chips to racks to clusters and even entire data centers.

And here’s a look at the new data-center hardware AMD announced today.

5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs

The EPYC line, originally launched in 2017, has become a big success for AMD. As Su told the event audience, there are now more than 950 EPYC instances at the largest cloud providers; also, AMD hardware partners now offer EPYC processors on more than 350 platforms. Market share is up, too: Nearly one in three servers worldwide (34%) now run on EPYC, Su said.

The new EPYC processors, formerly codenamed Turin and now known as the AMD EPYC 9005 Series, are now available for data center, AI and cloud customers.

The new CPUs also have a new core architecture known as Zen5. AMD says Zen5 outperforms the previous Zen4 generation by 17% on enterprise instructions-per-clock and up to 37% on AI and HPC workloads.

The new 5th Gen line has over 25 SKUs, and core count ranges widely, from as few as 8 to as many as 192. For example, the new AMD EPYC 9575F is a 65-core, 5GHz CPU designed specifically for GPU-powered AI solutions.

AMD Instinct MI325X Accelerator

About a year ago, AMD introduced the Instinct MI300 Accelerators, and since then the company committed itself to introducing new models on a yearly cadence. Sure enough, today Lisa Su introduced the newest model, the AMD Instinct MI325X Accelerator.

Designed for Generative AI performance and built on the AMD CDNA3 architecture, the new accelerator offers up to 256GB of HBM3E memory, and bandwidth up to 6TB/sec.

Shipments of the MI325X are set to begin in this year’s fourth quarter. Partner systems with the new AMD accelerator are expected to start shipping in next year’s first quarter.

Su also mentioned the next model in the line, the AMD Instinct MI350, which will offer up to 288GB of HBM3E memory. It’s set to be formally announced in the second half of next year.

Networking Devices

Forrest Norrod, AMD’s head of data-center solutions, introduced two networking devices designed for data centers running AI workloads.

The AMD Pensando Salina DPU is designed for front-end connectivity. It supports thruput of up to 400 Gbps.

The AMD Pensando Pollara 400, designed for back-end networks connecting multiple GPUs, is the industry’s first Ultra-Ethernet Consortium-ready AI NIC.

Both parts are sampling with customers now, and AMD expects to start general shipments in next year’s first half.

Both devices are needed, Norrod said, because AI dramatically raises networking demands. He cited studies showing that connectivity currently accounts for 40% to 75% of the time needed to run certain AI training and inference models.

Supermicro Support

Supermicro is among the AMD partners already ready with systems based on the new AMD processors and accelerator.

Wasting no time, Supermicro today announced new H14 series servers, including both Hyper and FlexTwin systems, that support the 5th gen AMD 9005 EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X Accelerators.

The Supermicro H14 family includes three systems for AI training and inference workloads. Supermicro says the systems can also accommodate the higher thermal requirements of the new AMD EPYC processors, which are rated at up to 500W. Liquid cooling is an option, too.

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Developing AI and HPC solutions? Check out the new AMD ROCm 6.2 release

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The latest release of AMD’s free and open software stack for developing AI and HPC solutions delivers 5 important enhancements. 

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If you develop AI and HPC solutions, you’ll want to know about the most recent release of AMD ROCm software, version 6.2.

ROCm, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is AMD’s free and open software stack. It’s aimed at developers of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions on AMD Instinct accelerators. It's also great for developing AI and HPC solutions on AMD Instinct-powered servers from Supermicro. 

First introduced in 2016, ROCm open software now includes programming models, tools, compilers, libraries, runtimes and APIs for GPU programming.

ROCm version 6.2, announced recently by AMD, delivers 5 key enhancements:

  • Improved vLLM support 
  • Boosted memory efficiency & performance with Bitsandbytes
  • New Offline Installer Creator
  • New Omnitrace & Omniperf Profiler Tools (beta)
  • Broader FP8 support

Let’s look at each separately and in more detail.

LLM support

To enhance the efficiency and scalability of its Instinct accelerators, AMD is expanding vLLM support. vLLM is an easy-to-use library for the large language models (LLMs) that power Generative AI.

ROCm 6.2 lets AMD Instinct developers integrate vLLM into their AI pipelines. The benefits include improved performance and efficiency.

Bitsandbytes

Developers can now integrate Bitsandbytes with ROCm for AI model training and inference, reducing their memory and hardware requirements on AMD Instinct accelerators. 

Bitsandbytes is an open source Python library that enables LLMs while boosting memory efficiency and performance. AMD says this will let AI developers work with larger models on limited hardware, broadening access, saving costs and expanding opportunities for innovation.

Offline Installer Creator

The new ROCm Offline Installer Creator aims to simplify the installation process. This tool creates a single installer file that includes all necessary dependencies.

That makes deployment straightforward with a user-friendly GUI that allows easy selection of ROCm components and versions.

As the name implies, the Offline Installer Creator can be used on developer systems that lack internet access.

Omnitrace and Omniperf Profiler

The new Omnitrace and Omniperf Profiler Tools, both now in beta release, provide comprehensive performance analysis and a streamlined development workflow.

Omnitrace offers a holistic view of system performance across CPUs, GPUs, NICs and network fabrics. This helps developers ID and address bottlenecks.

Omniperf delivers detailed GPU kernel analysis for fine-tuning.

Together, these tools help to ensure efficient use of developer resources, leading to faster AI training, AI inference and HPC simulations.

FP8 Support

Broader FP8 support can improve the performance of AI inferencing.

FP8 is an 8-bit floating point format that provides a common, interchangeable format for both AI training and inference. It lets AI models operate and perform consistently across hardware platforms.

In ROCm, FP8 support improves the process of running AI models, particularly in inferencing. It does this by addressing key challenges such as the memory bottlenecks and high latency associated with higher-precision formats. In addition, FP8's reduced precision calculations can decrease the latency involved in data transfers and computations, losing little to no accuracy.  

ROCm 6.2 expands FP8 support across its ecosystem, from frameworks to libraries and more, enhancing performance and efficiency.

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Which media server should you use when you absolutely can’t lose data?

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Which media server should you use when you absolutely can’t lose data?

A new Linus Tech Tip video shows a real-world implementation of Supermicro storage servers powered by AMD EPYC processors to provide super-high reliability.

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Are your customers looking for a top-performing media server? And are you looking for a surprisingly entertaining video review of the best one? Then look no further. You’ll find both in the latest Linus Tech Tip video.

This episode, sponsored by Supermicro, is entitled “This Server CANNOT Lose Data.” That gives you an idea of its primary focus: high reliability.

And that reliability is delivered courtesy of a sophisticated server/storage cluster featuring Supermicro GrandTwin A+ multinode servers.

Myriad redundancies

What makes the GrandTwin so reliable? Redundancy. As video host Linus Sebastian exclaims, “Inside this 2U are 4 independent computers!”

Each computer, or node, is powered by a 2.45GHz AMD EPYC processor with up to 128 cores and a 256MB L3 cache. Each node also has 4 front hot-swap 2.5-inch drive bays that can hold petabytes of either NVMe or SATA storage.

The GrandTwin’s nodes can handle up to 3TB of DDR5 ECC server memory. They also have dual M.2 slots for boot drives and 6 PCIe Gen 5 x16 slots for networking, graphics and other expansion cards.

GrandTwin’s high-availability design extends all the way down to its dual power supplies. To ensure the system always has a reliable flow of power to all its vital components, Supermicro added two redundant 2200-watt titanium-level PSUs.

Handling the heat generated by this monster machine is paramount. The GrandTwin takes care of all that hot air via 4 high-speed fans—one fan in each PSU, plus 2 dedicated heavy-duty 8-cm. fans spinning at more than 17,000 RPM.

Prime processing

At the core of each of the GrandTwin’s 4 nodes is an AMD 9004-series processor. Linus’ prized media server, known as “Whonnock 10,” sports an AMD EPYC 9534 CPU in each node.

The EPYC 9534’s cores—there are 64 of them—operate at 2.45GHz and can boost up to 3.7GHz. And because each EPYC processor boasts 12 memory channels, the GrandTwin can address up to 12TB of memory systemwide.

Don’t call it overkill

As Linus says with unbridled enthusiasm, when it comes to redundancy, the name of the game is avoiding “split brain.”

The dreaded split brain can occur when redundant servers have their own object storage. The failure of even a single system can lead to a situation in which each server believes it has the correct data.

If there are only 2 servers, proving which system is correct is impossible. On the other hand, operating 3 or more servers allows the system to resolve the argument and determine the correct data.

Linus and company installed 2 GrandTwin A+ servers. That gives them the 8 redundant systems recommended by their preferred NVMe file system, WEKA.

A multitude of use cases

Your customers may have to contend with thousands of hours of high-resolution videos, like Linus and his cohorts. Or they may develop AI-enabled applications, provide cloud gaming, or host mission-critical web applications.

Whatever the use case, they can benefit from high-reliability servers designed with built-in redundancies. When failure is not an option, your customers need a server that, as the video puts it, “CANNOT lose data.”

That means helping your customers deploy Supermicro GrandTwin A+ servers powered by AMD EPYC processors. It’s the ultimate high-reliability system.

After all, as Linus says, “You only server once.”

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Supermicro expands rack capacity so you get servers faster & greener

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Supermicro recently announced that it has expanded its capacity and can now provide 5,000 fully integrated, liquid-cooled racks per month. 

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Would you and your customers like to get faster delivery of Supermicro rackmount systems while also helping the environment?

Now you can.

Supermicro recently announced that it has expanded its capacity and can now provide 5,000 fully integrated, liquid-cooled racks per month. That’s because Supermicro now has integration facilities in four countries: the United States, Taiwan, Netherlands and Malaysia.

Supermicro also keeps in stock a certain number of commonly ordered rack configurations, what the company calls “golden SKUs.”

Between those systems and the company’s global locations, Supermicro can now deliver its rackmount systems both faster and over shorter distances. For example, Supermicro could ship a system to a customer in, say, Michigan from its Silicon Valley facility rather than from halfway around the world from Taiwan.

That shorter shipping distance also means less fuel needed and less polluting greenhouse gas produced. That’s an environmental win-win.

Get rolling with a rack

You can rely on Supermicro for data center IT solutions including on-site delivery, deployment, integration and benchmarking to achieve optimal operational efficiency.

Here’s how Supermicro’s rack delivery works in 3 steps:

Step 1: You start with proven reference designs for rapid installation while considering your clients' unique business objectives.

Step 2: You then work collaboratively with Supermicro-qualified experts to design optimized solutions for specific workloads. A prototype is designed and created for small-scale testing.

Step 3: Upon delivery, the racks need only be connected to power, networking and the liquid-cooling infrastructure. In other words, it’s a nearly seamless plug-and-play methodology.

Two areas of special interest for Supermicro are AI and liquid cooling. For AI, Supermicro plans to support AMD’s forthcoming MI300X GPU/CPU system, expected to be formally announced later this year. As for liquid cooling, it’s a technology Supermicro expects will soon be adopted by as many as 1 in 5 data centers worldwide as CPUs and GPUs continue to get hotter.

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Need help turning your customers’ data into actionable insights?

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Need help turning your customers’ data into actionable insights?

Your customers already have plenty of data. What they need now are insights. Supermicro, AMD and Cloudera are here to help.

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Your customers already have plenty of data. What they need now are insights.

Data just sits there, taking up costly storage and real estate. But actionable insights can help your customers strengthen their overall business, improve their business processes, and create new products and services.

Increasingly, these insights are based on data captured at the edge. For example, a retailer might collect customer and sales data using the point-of-sale terminals in its stores.

Supermicro is here to help. Its edge systems, including the latest WIO and short-depth servers powered by AMD processors, have been designed to collect data at the business edge.

These servers are powered by AMD’s EPYC 8004 Series processors. Introduced in September, these CPUs extend the company’s ‘Zen4c’ architecture into lower-core-count processors designed for edge servers and form factors.

GrandTwin too

For more insights, tell your customers to check out Supermicro’s GrandTwin servers. They’re powered by AMD EPYC 9004 processors and can run Cloudera Data Flow (CDF), a scalable, real-time streaming analytics platform.

The Supermicro GrandTwin systems provide a multi-node rackmount platform for cloud data centers. They come in 2U with 4 nodes for optimal deployment.

These systems offer AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC 9004 Series of general-purpose processors, which support DDR-5 4800 memory and PCI Express Gen 5 I/O.

Distributed yet united

If you’re unfamiliar with Cloudera, the company’s approach is based on a simple idea: single clouds are passé. Instead, Cloudera supports a hybrid data platform, one that can be used with any cloud, any analytics and any data.

The company’s idea is that data-management components should be physically distributed, but treated as a cohesive whole with AI and automation.

Cloudera’s CDF solution ingests, curates and analyzes data for key insights and immediate actionable information. That can include issues or defects that need remediating. And AI and machine learning systems can use the data to suggest real-time improvements.

More specifically, CDF delivers flow management, edge management, streams processing, streams management, and streaming analytics.

The upshot: Your customers need actionable insights, not more data. And to get those insights, they can check out the powerful combination of Supermicro servers, AMD processors and Cloudera solutions.

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Can liquid-cooled servers help your customers?

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Can liquid-cooled servers help your customers?

Liquid cooling can offer big advantages over air cooling. According to a new Supermicro solution guide, these benefits include up to 92% lower electricity costs for a server’s cooling infrastructure, and up to 51% lower electricity costs for an entire data center.

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The previous thinking was that liquid cooling was only for supercomputers and high-end gaming PCs. No more.

Today, many large-scale cloud, HPC, analytics and AI servers combine CPUs and GPUs in a single enclosure, generating a lot of heat. Liquid cooling can carry away the heat that’s generated, often with less overall cost and more efficiently than air.

According to a new Supermicro solution guide, liquid’s advantages over air cooling include:

  • Up to 92% lower electricity costs for a server’s cooling infrastructure
  • Up to 51% lower electricity costs for the entire data center
  • Up to 55% less data center server noise

What’s more, the latest liquid cooling systems are turnkey solutions that support the highest GPU and CPU densities. They’re also fully validated and tested by Supermicro under demanding workloads that stress the server. And unlike some other components, they’re ready to ship to you and your customers quickly, often in mere weeks.

What are the liquid-cooling components?

Liquid cooling starts with a cooling distribution unit (CDU). It incorporates two modules: a pump that circulates the liquid coolant, and a power supply.

Liquid coolant travels from the CDU through flexible hoses to the cooling system’s next major component, the coolant distribution manifold (CDM). It’s a unit with distribution hoses to each of the servers.

There are 2 types of CDMs. A vertical manifold is placed on the rear of the rack, is directly connected via hoses to the CDU, and delivers coolant to another important component, the cold plates. The second type, a horizontal manifold, is placed on the front of the rack, between two servers; it’s used with systems that have inlet hoses on the front.

The cold plates, mentioned above, are placed on top of the CPUs and GPUs in place of their typical heat sinks. With coolant flowing through their channels, they keep these components cool.

Two valuable CDU features are offered by Supermicro. First, the company’s CDU has a cooling capacity of 100kW, which enables very high rack compute densities. Second, Supermicro’s CDU features a touchscreen for monitoring and controlling the rack operation via a web interface. It’s also integrated with the company’s Super Cloud Composer data-center management software.

What does it work on?

Supermicro offers several liquid-cooling configurations to support different numbers of servers in different size racks.

Among the Supermicro servers available for liquid cooling is the company’s GPU systems, which can combine up to eight Nvidia GPUs and AMD EPYC 9004 series CPUs. Direct-to-chip (D2C) coolers are mounted on each processor, then routed through the manifolds to the CDU. 

D2C cooling is also a feature of the Supermicro SuperBlade. This system supports up to 20 blade servers, which can be powered by the latest AMD EPYC CPUs in an 8U chassis. In addition, the Supermicro Liquid Cooling solution is ideal for high-end AI servers such as the company’s 8-GPU 8125GS-TNHR.

To manage it all, Supermicro also offers its SuperCloud Composer’s Liquid Cooling Consult Module (LCCM). This tool collects information on the physical assets and sensor data from the CDU, including pressure, humidity, and pump and valve status.

This data is presented in real time, enabling users to monitor the operating efficiency of their liquid-cooled racks. Users can also employ SuperCloud Composer to set up alerts, manage firmware updates, and more.

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Tech Explainer: Green Computing, Part 3 – Why you should reduce, reuse & recycle

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The new 3Rs of green computing are reduce, reuse and recycle. 

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To help your customers meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, it pays to focus on the 3 Rs of green computing—reduce, reuse and recycle.

Sure, pursuing these goals can require some additional R&D and reorganization. But tech titans such as AMD and Supermicro are helping.

AMD, Supermicro and their vast supply chains are working to create a new virtuous circle. More efficient tech is being created using recycled materials, reused where possible, and then once again turned into recycled material.

For you and your customers, the path to green computing can lead to better corporate citizenship as well as higher efficiencies and lower costs.

Green server design

New disaggregated server technology is now available from manufacturers like Supermicro. This tech makes it possible for organizations of every size to increase their energy efficiency, better utilize data-center space, and reduce capital expenditures.

Supermicro’s SuperBlade, BigTwin and EDSFF SuperStorage are exemplars of disaggregated server design. The SuperBlade multi-node server, for instance, can house up to 20 server blades and 40 CPUs. And it’s available in 4U, 6U and 8U rack enclosures.

These efficient designs allow for larger, more efficient shared fans and power supplies. And along with the chassis itself, many elements can remain in service long past the lifespans of the silicon components they facilitate. In some cases, an updated server blade can be used in an existing chassis.

Remote reprogramming

Innovative technologies like adaptive computing enable organizations to adopt a holistic approach to green computing at the core, the edge and in end-user devices.

For instance, AMD’s adaptive computing initiative offers the ability to optimize hardware based on applications. Then your customers can get continuous updates after production deployment, adapting to new requirements without needing new hardware.

The key to adaptive computing is the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It’s essentially a blank canvas of hardware, capable of being configured into a multitude of different functions. Even after an FPGA has been deployed, engineers can remotely access the component to reprogram various hardware elements.

The FPGA reprogramming process can be as simple as applying security patches and bug fixes—or as complex as a wholesale change in core functionality. Either way, the green computing bona fides of adaptive computing are the same.

What’s more, adaptive tech like FPGAs significantly reduces e-waste. This helps to lower an organization’s overall carbon footprint by obviating the manufacturing and transportation necessary to replace hardware already deployed.

Adaptive computing also enables organizations to increase energy efficiency. Deploying cutting-edge tech like the AMD Instinct MI250X Accelerator to complete AI training or inferencing can significantly reduce the overall electricity needed to complete a task.

Radical recycling

Even in organizations with the best green computing initiatives, elements of the hardware infrastructure will eventually be ready for retirement. When the time comes, these organizations have yet another opportunity to go green—by properly recycling.

Some servers can be repurposed for other, less-demanding tasks, extending their lifespan. For example, a system that had been used for HPC applications that may no longer have the required FP64 performance could be repurposed to host a database or email application.

Quite a lot of today’s computer hardware can be recycled. This includes glass from monitors; plastic and aluminum from cases; copper in power supplies; precious metals used in circuitry; even the cardboard, wood and other materials used in packaging.

If that seems like too much work, there are now third-party organizations that will oversee your customers’ recycling efforts for a fee. Later, if all goes according to plan, these recycled materials will find their way back into the manufacturing supply chain.

Tech suppliers are working to make recycling even easier. For example, AMD is one of the many tech leaders whose commitment to environmental sustainability extends across its entire value chain. For AMD, that includes using environmentally preferable packing materials, such as recycled materials and non-toxic dyes.

Are you 3R?

Your customers understand that establishing and adhering to ESG goals is more than just a good idea. In fact, it’s vital to the survival of humanity.

Efforts like those of AMD and Supermicro are helping to establish a green computing revolution—and not a moment too soon.

In other words, pursuing green computing’s 3 Rs will be well worth the effort.

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