Supermicro Offers Next-Generation Air-Cooled
and Liquid-Cooled Architecture for NVIDIA Blackwell
Platform
SAN
JOSE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2025
/PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT
Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is
announcing full production availability of its end-to-end AI data
center Building Block Solutions® accelerated by the
NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio
provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale
Blackwell solutions with exceptional time to deployment. The
portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled
systems with multiple CPU options. These include superior thermal
design supporting traditional air cooling, liquid-to-liquid (L2L)
and liquid-to-air (L2A) cooling. In addition, a full data center
management software suite, rack-level integration, including full
network switching and cabling and cluster-level L12 solution
validation can be delivered as turn-key offering with global
delivery, professional support, and service.
"In this transformative moment of AI, where scaling laws are
pushing the limits of data center capabilities, our latest NVIDIA
Blackwell-powered solutions, developed through close collaboration
with NVIDIA, deliver outstanding computational power," said
Charles Liang, president and CEO of
Supermicro. "Supermicro's NVIDIA Blackwell GPU offerings in
plug-and-play scalable units with advanced liquid cooling and air
cooling are empowering customers to deploy an infrastructure that
supports increasingly complex AI workloads while maintaining
exceptional efficiency. This reinforces our commitment to providing
sustainable, cutting-edge solutions that accelerate AI
innovation."
For more information, please visit www.supermicro.com/AI
Supermicro's NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU systems utilize
next-generation liquid-cooling and air-cooling technology. The
newly developed cold plates and the new 250kW coolant distribution
unit (CDU) more than double the cooling capacity of the previous
generation in the same 4U form factor. Available in 42U, 48U, or
52U configurations, the rack-scale design with the new vertical
coolant distribution manifolds (CDM) no longer occupy valuable rack
units. This enables 8 systems, comprising 64 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
in a 42U rack, and all the way up to 12 systems with 96 NVIDIA
Blackwell GPUs in a 52U rack.
The new air-cooled 10U NVIDIA HGX B200 system features a
redesigned chassis with expanded thermal headroom to accommodate
eight 1000W TDP Blackwell GPUs. Up to 4 of the new 10U air-cooled
systems can be installed and fully integrated in a rack, the same
density as the previous generation, while providing up to 15x
inference and 3x training performance.
The new SuperCluster designs incorporate NVIDIA Quantum-2
InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking in a
centralized rack, enabling a non-blocking, 256-GPU scalable unit in
five racks or an extended 768-GPU scalable unit in nine racks. This
architecture — purpose-built for NVIDIA HGX B200 systems with
native support for the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform for
developing and deploying production-grade, end-to-end agentic AI
pipelines — combined with Supermicro's expertise in deploying the
world's largest liquid-cooled data centers delivers exceptional
efficiency and time-to-online for today's most ambitious AI data
center projects.
Liquid-cooled or air-cooled: Supermicro NVIDIA HGX B200
Systems
The new liquid-cooled 4U NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU system features
newly developed cold plates and advanced tubing design that further
enhance the efficiency and serviceability of the predecessor that
was used for the NVIDIA HGX H100/H200 8-GPU system. Complemented by
a new 250kW cooling distribution unit, more than doubling the
cooling capacity of the previous generation while maintaining the
same 4U form factor, the new rack-scale design with the new
vertical coolant distribution manifolds (CDM) enables denser
architecture with flexible configuration scenarios used for various
data center environments. Supermicro offers 42U, 48U, or 52U rack
configurations for liquid-cooled data centers. The 42U or 48U
configuration provides 8 systems and 64-GPU in a rack, and 256-GPU
scalable unit in five racks. The 52U rack configuration allows
96-GPU in a rack and enables 768-GPU scalable unit in nine racks
for the most advanced AI data center deployments. Supermicro also
offers an in-row CDU option for large deployments, as well as
liquid-to-air cooling rack solution that doesn't require facility
water.
Supermicro's NVIDIA HGX B200 systems natively support NVIDIA AI
Enterprise software to accelerate time to production AI. NVIDIA NIM
microservices allow organizations to access the latest AI models
for fast, secure, and reliable deployment on NVIDIA accelerated
infrastructure anywhere — whether in data centers, the cloud or
workstations.
For traditional data centers, the new 10U air-cooled NVIDIA B200
8-GPU system is also available, with a redesigned modular GPU tray
to house the NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in an air-cooled environment.
The air-cooled rack design follows the proven, industry-leading
architecture of the previous generation, four systems and 32 GPUs
in a 48U rack, while providing NVIDIA Blackwell performance. All
Supermicro NVIDIA HGX B200 systems are equipped with a 1:1
GPU-to-NIC ratio supporting NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNICs or NVIDIA
ConnectX-7 NICs for scaling across a high-performance compute
fabric.
Supermicro provides support for systems included in the
NVIDIA-Certified Systems program. This program incorporates NVIDIA
GPUs, CPUs, and high-speed, secure networking technologies into
systems from leading NVIDIA partners, ensuring configurations that
are validated for optimal performance, reliability, and
scalability. By choosing an NVIDIA-Certified System, enterprises
can confidently select hardware solutions to power their
accelerated computing workloads. NVIDIA has certified Supermicro
systems with NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs.
End-to-end Liquid-cooling Solution for NVIDIA GB200
NVL72
Supermicro's SuperCluster solution, based on the NVIDIA GB200
NVL72 system, represents a breakthrough in AI computing
infrastructure, combining Supermicro's end-to-end liquid-cooling
technology. The system integrates 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 36
NVIDIA Grace CPUs in a single rack, delivering exascale computing
capabilities through NVIDIA's most extensive NVLink network to
date, achieving 130 TB/s of GPU communications.
The 48U solution's versatility supports both liquid-to-air and
liquid-to-liquid cooling configurations, accommodating various data
center environments. Additionally, Supermicro's
SuperCloud Composer software provides management tools for
monitoring and optimizing liquid-cooled infrastructure, delivering
a complete solution from proof of concept to full-scale
deployment.
End-to-end Data Center Solution and Deployment Services for
NVIDIA Blackwell
From proof-of-concept (PoC) to full-scale deployment, Supermicro
serves as a comprehensive one-stop solution provider with global
manufacturing scale, delivering all necessary components, data
center-level solution design, liquid-cooling technologies,
networking solutions, cabling, management software, testing and
validation, and onsite installation services. Its in-house
liquid-cooling ecosystem offers a complete, custom-designed thermal
management solution, featuring optimized cold plates for GPUs,
CPUs, and memory modules, along with versatile coolant distribution
unit form factors and capacities, manifolds, hoses, connectors,
cooling towers, and sophisticated monitoring and management
software. With production facilities across San Jose, Europe, and Asia, Supermicro offers unmatched
manufacturing capacity for liquid-cooled rack systems, ensuring
timely delivery, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and
environmental impact, and consistent quality.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in
Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in
San Jose, California, Supermicro
is committed to delivering first to market innovation for
Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are
a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch
systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard,
power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development
and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to
edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and
manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the
Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and
efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce
environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio
of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize
for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad
family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building
blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors,
processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling
solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid
cooling).
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Computer, Inc.
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