Supermicro delivers E3.S all-flash storage with CXL memory expansion
Supermicro has announced high throughput, low latency E3.S storage which supports the industry’s first PCIe Gen5 drives and CXL modules for large AI training and HPC (high performance computing) clusters.
The company’s Petascale systems are storage servers supporting the latest industry standard E3.S (7.5mm) Gen 5 NVMe drives from leading storage vendors for up to 256Tbyte of high throughput, low latency storage in 1U or up to a half petabyte in 2U. The company’s symmetrical architecture has reduced latency ensuring the shortest signal paths for data and maximised airflow over critical components, allowing them to run at optimal speeds, said Supermicro.
With these new systems, a standard rack can now hold over 20 Petabytes of capacity for high throughput NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) configurations to support data-hungry GPUs. Systems are available with either the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
The storage products are shipping now. Supermicro said that its can deliver turnkey or custom solutions, including liquid cooling, via its Rack Scale Total IT portfolio.
Supermicro claimed that its Petascale systems are the first in the industry to support up to four E3.S 2T (15mm) CMM devices on Intel and AMD-based platforms. These systems now enable memory cache coherency between CPU memory and PCIe attached DDR based memory devices. The new lineup of optimised storage systems includes 1U servers supporting up to 16 hot-swap E3.S drives, or eight E3.S drives, and four E3.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 latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, while the single-processor models support the latest 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
The Petascale system devices are designed for PCIe 5.0 (2X the performance of PCIe 4.0), 1.5X memory performance of DDR5 compared to DDR4, and up to 1Petabyte in a compact 2U server when 30Tbyte drives become available later this year.
