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Supermicro Unveils NVIDIA GPU Server Test Drive Program with Leading Channel Partners to Deliver Workload Qualification on Remote Supermicro Servers
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

  -- Supermicro Customers Can Access 2U HGX A100 4-GPU or 4U 
     HGX A100 8-GPU Systems Through Channel Partners – EMEA: Boston 
     and Broadberry; North/Latin America: Colfax, Exxact, Microway, 
     Thinkmate, and AMAX – Enabling Fast-track Testing of 
     Industry-Leading Platforms

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise 
computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, 
released details on a new GPU test-drive program. Called STEP (Supermicro Test 
drive Engagement with Partners), the program allows customers to remote test 
drive either Supermicro's  2U HGX A100 4-GPU or 4U HGX A100 8-GPU system with 
NVIDIA 3rd Generation NVLink technology.

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"Supermicro's collaboration with NVIDIA in the GPU test drive program delivers 
through channel partners a unique opportunity to test workloads on remote 
Supermicro servers leveraging NVIDIA's HGX A100 platforms," said Don Clegg, 
senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, Supermicro. "This program will showcase 
the power of these servers to support unique applications and accelerate 
time-to-market solutions." 

Customers can access the program through the Supermicro STEP landing page with 
links to participating partners where customers can begin the process of 
registration. Afterward, customers can link directly to remote Supermicro 
NVIDIA HGX A100 platforms to test and qualify their advanced workloads. 

"The NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform is purpose-built for the highest 
performance on simulation, data analytics and AI applications," said Paresh 
Kharya, senior director of Product Management and Marketing at NVIDIA. 
"Supermicro's decision to build their STEP program on the foundation of 
NVIDIA's HGX technology will give customers access to the leading platform that 
can tackle the most complex problems and transform the global research 
community."

Supermicro's advanced high-density 2U and 4U servers feature NVIDIA HGX A100 
4-GPU and 8-GPU baseboards. Supermicro's Advanced I/O Module (AIOM) form factor 
further enhances networking communication with high flexibility. The AIOM can 
be coupled with the latest high-speed, low latency PCI-E 4.0 storage and 
networking devices that support NVIDIA GPUDirect (R)RDMA and GPUDirect Storage 
with NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) on NVIDIA Mellanox(R) InfiniBand that feeds 
the scalable multi-GPU system with a continuous stream of data flow without 
bottlenecks.  

Participating Partners 
 
EMEA:

Boston 

"Boston is pleased to offer our European partners and customers the opportunity 
to test one of Supermicro's highest-performance and first-to-market servers 
based on NVIDIA A100(TM) GPUs," said Manoj Nayee, Managing Director, Boston. 
"The Supermicro AS -2124GQ-NART system is an ideal building block for AI 
cluster requirements offered in the compact 2U form factor that provides an 
impressively dense configuration supporting four NVIDIA A100 GPUs.  The team at 
Boston Labs and the Boston Training Academy looks forward to supporting 
customers for testing, training, and implementation of this next generation of 
accelerated computing."

Broadberry 

"Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an area of strategic importance and a 
key driver of economic development for Europe, according to the European 
Commission," said Colin Broadberry, president of Broadberry Data Systems. 
"That's why the Broadberry team is so excited to collaborate with Supermicro to 
offer clients remote access to NVIDIA A100 graphics processing units 
(GPU)-based servers, the Broadberry CyberServe A+ Server 2124GQ-NART and 
CyberServe EPYC EP2-4124GO-NART GPU Server." 

North/Latin America:

Colfax 

"Colfax International is excited to collaborate with Supermicro and NVIDIA in 
launching this new test drive program that enables users across the industry to 
have access to the Supermicro AS -2124GQ-NART, the latest and most powerful 2U 
GPU server platform highlighting NVIDIA's new HGX A100 4-GPU," said Gautam 
Shah, CEO. "This solution is able to deliver new speed to previous challenges, 
accelerating HPC and AI workloads, which ultimately allows for faster time to 
solution. With Colfax's expertise in the HPC and AI space, we'll be able to 
help users select the best GPU solution for their organization."
 
Exxact 

"Exxact Corporation is excited to be collaborating with Supermicro to provide 
remote access to a powerful system TensorEX TS4-195183185 containing 8x A100 
40GB SXM4 GPUs with 600GB/s GPU to GPU bandwidth capabilities, which will 
provide excellent opportunity to prove its capabilities in accelerating code 
across a wide variety of applications and codes," said Andrew Nelson, VP of 
Technology.

Microway 

"Microway's expert team recommends the most flexible, performant, and 
cost-effective solutions for turn-key deployments. Our ability to rapidly 
deliver these latest HPC and AI systems is thanks to our close collaboration 
with Supermicro," said Eliot Eshelman, VP Strategic Accounts at Microway. 
"We're proud to be offering the first HGX A100 8-GPU solution to market, 
Supermicro AS -4124GO-NART, as our Navion 4U GPU with NVLink Server—and 
encourage potential customers to try it before they buy [microway.com] with our 
new remote testing resources."

Thinkmate 

"Many people are familiar with the power of NVIDIA(R) A100 graphics processing 
units (GPUs) for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, but some 
have never seen how well they can work with AMD-based central processing units 
(CPUs)," said Brian Corn, vice president of products for Thinkmate. "Thanks to 
our collaboration with Supermicro, Thinkmate is able to give customers the 
opportunity to try out Supermicro's powerful new AMD and NVIDIA-based servers – 
the Thinkmate GPX QN4-22E2-4NV and GPX QN6-42E2-8NV – and experience the power 
of this combination for themselves."

AMAX  

AMAX is delighted to collaborate with Supermicro and NVIDIA to enable customers 
to test drive an NVIDIA A100-based server DGS-428AS, and to help them 
accelerate their most demanding analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), 
inference, and training workloads," said Dr. Rene Meyer, VP of Technology at 
AMAX.  "AMAX's AceleMax GPU solutions, powered by the latest NVIDIA A100 Tensor 
Core GPUs, deliver unprecedented performance and massive scalability on all 
accelerated workloads for HPC, data analytics, training and inference." 
 
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