HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Tech focus: Servers
ROBERT ROE TAKES A LOOK AT THE LATEST ADVANCES IN SERVER TECHNOLOGY FOR HPC AND AI
HPC and AI simulations require large amounts of
computing power and this is driving an increase in demand for powerful servers that can leverage high-density configurations of both CPU and accelerator technologies. By squeezing more computing performance out of the available space and resources, scientists can increase the size and complexity of their simulations or reduce time spent waiting for results. Recently, Liqid, a server
company based in Denver, USA, announced what it claims is the fastest available single-socket server. The company released a white paper highlighting the technologies impressive Random IOPs and sequential bandwidth performance for this solution based on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 Rack Server.
Liqid provides a composable
infrastructure platform that aims to reduce vendor lock-in by enabling users to build a data centre architecture that changes to meet their business needs and scales as needed. For the release of this new
server Liqid worked with AMD and Dell to deliver a server solution based on on Gen-4 PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric technology. The server,
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Supermicro AS-2124GQ-NART Server with Nvidia A100 GPU
known as the ‘LQD4500’, is coupled with the AMD EPYC processors, enclosed in Dell’s EMC PowerEdge R7515 Rack Server - providing an architecture designed for AI-driven HPC application environments.
‘It’s undeniable that new data-intensive workloads, including artificial intelligence and edge computing, will increasingly rely on automation if they are to run efficiently while hiding some of the complexity. The current generation of static hardware can be limiting for these workloads without massive over-provisioning,’ said John Abbott, cofounder and systems infrastructure analyst at 451 Research, part of S&P Global’s Market Intelligence division. ‘AI, deep learning and other new workloads require the integration of new infrastructure to support them.’ The optimised platform
from Liqid, Dell Technologies,
and AMD enables scientists to deploy server systems with the highest compute and storage performance for core datacentres, as workflows and business needs scale up. ‘In high-computational
environments, the more compute power you can pack into a single node, the more accurate your results will be, and the more quickly those results can be implemented in the real world,’ said Sumit Puri, CEO and cofounder, Liqid. ‘We are proud to collaborate with industry leaders like Dell Technologies and AMD to provide adaptive architectures for AI and HPC applications to help solve some of the most vexing problems facing businesses and the world.’
Meeting the demands of tomorrow Supermicro has also recently updated its portfolio of servers with the latest AMD EPYC processors. New GPUs
from Nvidia based on its Ampere architecture were also announced to be included in some of Supermicro’s latest server offerings. At the time of the announcement Supermicro, announced that its latest server products had broken more than 27 world records for performance benchmarks. In addition to the industry’s first blade platform, Supermicro’s entire portfolio of new H12 A+ Servers fully supports the newly announced high- frequency AMD EPYC 7Fx2 Series processors. Besides the new H12 SuperBlade and single and dual-socket multi-node Twin A+ Servers, Supermicro also introduced its next-generation WIO line of A+ Servers as well as a 4U server supporting eight double-width GPUs. With PCI-E 4.0 x16 support, these A+ Servers can deliver up to 200G connectivity and feature a large memory footprint of up to
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