Thursday gigabyte Introduced Three new products with Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors. First, the company launched one of the industry’s first 2U motherboards. It has up to 256 Arm cores using two Ampere AltraMax processors. In addition, the company currently offers Ampere Altra / Altra Max-based machines with Nvidia A100 computing GPUs, two Nvidia BlueField-2 DPUs, and Ampere-powered servers with four Nvidia A100 computing GPUs.
Among the major hardware challenges faced by hyperscale data center operators are maximizing computing capabilities per square meter and maximizing storage capacity per square meter. Gigabyte MP72-HB0 Dual-socket motherboards aim to solve the first challenge by supporting two Ampere Altra (80 cores) or Altra Max (128 cores, 250W) processors, so per box (or per node). It provides up to 256 cores. Record number. Of course, you could pack four 1U 64 core nodes into a 4U box, but it still works like four nodes.
The gigabyte MP72-HB0E-ATX motherboard has 16 slots for DDR4 memory, 3 PCIe 4.0 x16 slots, 1 PCIe 4.0 x8 slot, and 1 M.2 slot. In addition, there are two 10GbE ports, two slimline ports for NVMe drives, one slimline port for SATA drives, and two SATA ports. Like other server boards, it has an Aspeed AST2600 BMC and a GbE port dedicated to management. On the other hand, it’s an E-ATX motherboard, so it fits in a standard tower case.
Also, gigabytes G242-P36 The server can be equipped with one Ampere Altra / Altra Max CPU with up to 128 cores, two Nvidia A100 computing GPU cards and two Nvidia BlueField-2 DPUs. This machine is primarily intended for cloud AI and HPC applications, but software development that plans to build applications for Nvidia’s upcoming HPC platform with Grace CPUs, Hopper computing GPUs, and BlueField DPUs. Can also be used by
On the other hand, for those who only need a computing GPU, Gigabyte is G242-P35 A machine with up to 4 dual slot Nvidia A100 cards. Both systems support Arm’s CCIX technology for more efficient heterogeneous computing, but I don’t think there are many add-in boards that support CCIX.
In addition to four PCIe 4.0 x16 cards (two A100 GPUs and two BlueField-2DPUs or four A100 GPUs), Gigabyte’s G242-P35 and G242-P36 machines have two thin PCIe 4.0 x8 cards and four U.2 PCIe Gen4. Can be accommodated. NVMe SSD, and two M.2 drives. The server comes with Aspeed’s AST2500BMC with two GbE ports and a dedicated management GbE port.
In addition to the 2-way and 4-way Nvidia A100-accelerated Ampere-powered servers, Gigabyte also has an Ampere-based HPC system with eight Nvidia A100 80GB SXM4 computing GPUs introduced in May.
As far as the operating system is concerned, Gigabyte’s Ampere-based machines support Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Oracle, and Debian operating systems.
The company has already listed all of Gigabyte’s new products, but it’s unclear when Gigabyte will go public. You might guess that the motherboard and two servers will be on the market (or targeted clients) soon, but I’m not entirely sure how much these devices will actually cost.
