New JBOF Architecture Enables Storage ISVs and
Cloud Service Providers to Build High-Performance, Efficient, and
Intelligent Data Platforms for the Era of AI
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JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud,
Storage, and 5G/Edge, is launching a new optimized storage
system for high performance AI training, inference and HPC
workloads. This JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash) system utilizes up to
four NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs) in a 2U form
factor to run software-defined storage workloads. Each BlueField-3
DPU features 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and
hardware acceleration for high computation storage and networking
workloads such as encryption, compression and erasure coding, as
well as AI storage expansion. The state-of-the-art, dual port JBOF
architecture enables active-active clustering ensuring high
availability for scale up mission critical storage applications as
well as scale-out storage such as object storage and parallel file
systems.
"Supermicro's new high performance JBOF Storage System is
designed using our Building Block approach which enables support
for either E3.S or U.2 form-factor SSDs and the latest PCIe Gen 5
connectivity for the SSDs and the DPU networking and storage
platform," said Charles Liang,
president and CEO of Supermicro. "Supermicro's system design
supports 24 or 36 SSD's enabling up to 1.105PB of raw capacity
using 30.71TB SSDs. Our balanced network and storage I/O design can
saturate the full 400 Gb/s BlueField-3 line-rate realizing more
than 250GB/s bandwidth of the Gen 5 SSDs."
For more information on the Supermicro's storage solutions for
AI, please visit:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/storage.
The Supermicro JBOF with NVIDIA BlueField-3 solution replaces
the traditional storage CPU and memory subsystem with the
BlueField-3 DPU and runs the storage application on the DPU's 16
Arm cores. In addition to storage acceleration such as erasure
coding and decompression algorithms, the BlueField-3 also
accelerates networking through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over
Converged Ethernet), GPU Direct Storage and GPU Initiated
Storage.
"Accelerated computing and AI are transforming every industry
and delivering benefits for society," said Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of
networking at NVIDIA. "NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs enable innovative
solutions like the Supermicro Petascale JBOF, which is the
foundation for a new class of AI data platforms delivering extreme
performance and efficiency."
In collaboration with NVIDIA, Supermicro is creating a new JBOF
ecosystem including data platform company Hammerspace and object
storage provider Cloudian to enable these storage infrastructure
software platforms to run natively on the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU in
the Supermicro JBOF. In addition, Supermicro has qualified SSDs
from Micron and KIOXIA with the JBOF system to provide a range of
capacities and single and dual-port capability.
"The Supermicro JBOF using NVIDIA's BlueField-3 DPU offers a
highly integrated storage approach for large-scale AI training and
analytics storage workloads," said Ashish
Nadkarni, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Worldwide Infrastructure Research at IDC. "This implementation
provides a more power efficient solution than CPU-based storage
servers and lower read latency due to the direct data path provided
by the JBOF and DPU architecture. Supermicro and NVIDIA have
assembled an ecosystem of partners which makes this something that
all large-scale AI, CSP and HPC customers should consider."
For more information about the new JBOF product, please visit:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/jbof
Supermicro, in collaboration with NVIDIA, will present the new
JBOF solution with the NVIDIA BlueField-3 in more detail at the OCP
Global conference in San Jose,
California, on Wednesday, October
16. Visit Supermicro at Booth B21 and attend the session
"High Performance Data Center Storage using DPUs" to learn
more.
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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