Supermicro Scale-Up In-Memory Computing Platforms Shipping in Volume

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced that its new 4-socket servers, which support 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Optane DC persistent memory, are shipping in volume.

Supermicro’s SuperServer 2049U-TR4 is powering the demanding and intensive enterprise workloads for the top cloud vendors in the industry. This system is optimized to leverage the 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors as well as paradigm-changing Optane DC persistent memory, and this 2U server provides up to 112 processor cores at a compelling price point.

In a study by Intel and SAP, Intel’s persistent memory enabled SAP S/4 HANA to restart up to 12.5 times faster than DDR4 and SSDs alone.

“Our 4-socket servers are proven, reliable machines that have been powering mission-critical workloads for large enterprises and top cloud service providers around the world,” said Raju Penumatcha, SVP and chief product officer, Supermicro.  “Using 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory, these servers deliver tremendous performance boost for in-memory computing all at a dramatically lower cost compared to the previous generation architectures.“

“SUSE and Supermicro have long partnered on solutions that serve our customers in the digital economy,” said Phillip Cockrell, SUSE, LLC VP of WW alliance sales. “This partnership once again leads to SUSE support for Supermicro solutions, now including the newest in-memory 4-socket and 8-socket systems from Supermicro. SUSE, which provides the leading Linux platform for SAP workloads, and Supermicro continue to work together to deliver outstanding value to our customers by providing a foundation for SAP HANA on Kubernetes installations throughout the world.“

In addition to powering the cloud, the stability and scalability of SYS-2049-TR4 makes it a building block for enterprise customers who are looking to migrate from their current mainframe infrastructure.  In an internal test conducted by Neeve Research, Supermicro Multi-Processor (MP) servers were able to demonstrate superior performance against typical mainframe workloads. 

“Using Supermicro MP servers, we were able to achieve real-time fraud detection against 10TB of data to process an astonishing 10 thousand transactions per second (TPS) with less than 10 microsecond response time.” said Grish Mutraja, CEO, Neeve Research, LLC, in next generation in-memory computing technology. “The baseline today with current mainframes is around 800 TPS with a latency of 50ms.  Supermicro’s servers provide amazing performance and strong value proposition for any enterprises that are seriously considering mainframe migration strategies.“

OmniTier, Inc., in genome sequencing software, strongly agrees:  “Supermicro’s 4-socket server family has been proven to be a major asset to OmniTier’s CompStor advanced tiered-memory computing platform for genome sequencing,” said Dr. Jonathan Coker, CTO, OmniTier. “Our compute-heavy applications demand high core count per node, and our tiered-memory implementation demands access to  very high performance local storage.  Supermicro’s 4-socket server solution has exceeded both requirements.“

Supermicro’s Multi-Processor servers are designed for enterprise mission-critical workloads such as real-time OLTP + OLAP, in-memory analytics, virtualization and scale-up HPC.  These servers are certified for a range of popular OSs including RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, VMWare, and Windows.

Supermicro is sampling a new 4U server with four 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors for up to 112 compute cores and up to 18TB of memory. The 8049U-E1CR4T supports 16 expansion slots, eight NVMe SSDs and up to six GPU cards. The applications for this system include in-memory computing, real-time data analytics, AI inference and virtualization.

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