Supermicro in Volume Production of E3.S All-Flash Storage Portfolio with CXL Memory Expansion Offerings

Supermicro, Inc. is delivering a high-throughput, low latency E3.S storage solutions supporting PCIe Gen5 drives and CXL modules to meet the demands of large AI training and HPC clusters, where massive amounts of unstructured data must be delivered to the GPUs and CPUs to achieve faster results.

The company’s Petascale systems are a new class of storage servers supporting the industry standard E3.S (7.5mm) Gen 5 NVMe drives from leading storage vendors for up to 256TB of high throughput, low latency storage in 1U or up to a 1/2 PB in 2U.

Inside, The firm’s symmetrical architecture reduced latency by ensuring the shortest signal paths for data and maximized airflow over critical components, allowing them to run at optimal speeds. With these systems, a standard rack can now hold over 20PB of capacity for high throughput NVMe-oF configurations, ensuring that GPUs remain saturated with data. Systems are available with the 4^th Gen Xeon Scalable processors or 4^th Gen EPYC processors.

“Supermicro continues to add to its industry leading AI rack scale solutions with the addition of the latest in storage technology,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO. “Our broad range of high-performance AI solutions has been enhanced with NVMe based Petabyte scale storage to deliver maximum performance and capacities for our customers training large AI models and HPC environments. These solutions are now shipping in volume worldwide. With our Rack Scale Total IT solutions, we deliver turnkey or custom solutions, including liquid cooling, that are tuned to various workloads and are ready to deploy on day one.”

The company‘s Petascale systems are the 1st in the industry to support up to 4x E3.S 2T (15 mm) CMM devices on Intel and AMD based platforms. These systems enable memory cache coherency between CPU memory and PCIe attached DDR based memory devices. This lineup of optimized storage systems includes 1U servers supporting up to 16 hot-swap E3.S drives, or 8xE3.S drives, plus 4xE3.S 2T 16.8mm bays for CMM and other emerging modular devices. The 2U servers support up to 32 hot-swap E3.S drives with both single-processor and dual-processor models. The dual-processor models support the 4^th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, while the single-processor models support the 4^th Gen EPYC processors.

Customers will experience increased performance with these latest technologies. These systems all include PCIe 5.0 (2X the performance of PCIe 4.0), 1.5x memory performance of DDR5 compared to DDR4, and up to 1PB in a 2U server when 30TB drives become available later this year.

“Kioxia’s CM7 Series E3.S PCIe 5.0 SSDs, when used in the new Supermicro storage servers, are ideal for workloads requiring high performance and capacity,” said Neville Ichhaporia, SVP and GM, SSD business unit, Kioxia America, Inc. “We continue to work closely with Supermicro to provide the memory required to enable the fastest storage servers available for end users that require quick access to large amounts of data.“

“Solidigm is proud to partner with Supermicro to deliver the latest high-quality storage solutions. Our QLC E3.S hyper-dense NVMe SSDs have the largest capacity of any drives on the market, ranging from 7.68TB to 61.44TB, to give customers the capacity they need without sacrificing performance,” said Greg Matson, VP, strategy planning and marketing, Solidigm. “We continue to work with Supermicro to create storage systems that address high-end requirements for real-world workloads.“