Supermicro Unveils Industry’s‑First 64-Core Workstation Supporting Four Double-Width GPUs with AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processor at All-Digital CES® 2021

Work­sta­tion Com­ple­ments Industry’s Broa­dest Port­fo­lio of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Based High-Den­si­ty, Supe­ri­or Per­for­mance Ser­ver Solutions

San Jose, Calif., Janu­ary 12, 2021 — Super Micro Com­pu­ter, Inc. (SMCI), a glo­bal lea­der in enter­pri­se com­pu­ting, sto­rage, net­wor­king solu­ti­ons, and green com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy, exten­ded its indus­try-pro­ven work­sta­tion fami­ly with a new gene­ra­ti­on ser­ver-gra­de high-end work­sta­tion that offers maxi­mum con­fi­gu­ra­bi­li­ty and relia­bi­li­ty in a robust sin­gle-socket plat­form. The new work­sta­tion is just the latest in Supermicro’s over­all sup­port of AMD pro­ces­sors, inclu­ding the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ based ser­vers for mul­ti­ple applications.

The high­ly ver­sa­ti­le, con­fi­gura­ble plat­form harnes­ses the power of the AMD Ryzen Thre­ad­rip­per PRO Pro­ces­sor with up to 64 cores and 128 PCI‑E 4.0 lanes, doubling the data through­put of the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on. The new work­sta­tion (AS5014A-TT) dra­ma­ti­cal­ly boosts pro­duc­ti­vi­ty for deman­ding pro­fes­sio­nal workloads found in media con­tent crea­ti­on, sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch, visua­liza­ti­on, deep lear­ning (DL) and arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence (AI), vir­tu­al or aug­men­ted rea­li­ty (VR/AR), and 3‑D mode­ling with real-time simulation.

When AMD’s new pro­ces­sor is cou­pled with Supermicro’s advan­ced work­sta­tion design and archi­tec­tu­re, today’s pro­fes­sio­nals can tru­ly bring their pro­duc­ti­vi­ty to the next level,” said Vik Malya­la, seni­or vice pre­si­dent, Super­mi­cro. “It can dri­ve up to four full-height, dou­ble-width, acti­ve coo­ling GPUs, dou­ble that of simi­lar sys­tems in the mar­ket, and sup­ports up to 2TB of DDR4 3200 memo­ry, and four M.2 slots for ultra-fast PCI‑E Gen 4 NVMe sto­rage. Also, with built-in 10Gigatbit Ether­net, and sup­port for 25/100/200G NICs, the plat­form acce­le­ra­tes data-inten­si­ve workloads and trans­fer speed — requi­red for today’s con­tent crea­tors, deep lear­ning pro­fes­sio­nals, and engineers.”

AMD Ryzen™ Thre­ad­rip­per™ PRO pro­ces­sors have been desi­gned to set the indus­try stan­dard for work­sta­tion com­pu­te per­for­mance,” said Chris Kilb­urn, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, cli­ent com­po­nent busi­ness unit, AMD. “With the new AS-5014A-TT Work­sta­tion, Super­mi­cro has desi­gned a powerful and fle­xi­ble plat­form, dedi­ca­ted to maxi­mi­zing the full spec­trum of com­pu­te capa­bi­li­ties offe­red by AMD Ryzen Thre­ad­rip­per PRO processors.”

Super­mi­cro 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Solutions

In addi­ti­on to Supermicro’s sup­port for the AMD Ryzen Thre­ad­rip­per PRO pro­ces­sors, Super­mi­cro con­ti­nues to deli­ver a wide ran­ge of solu­ti­ons lever­aging AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC series. The­se include the H12 Super­Bla­de® and sin­gle and dual-socket mul­ti-node A+ Twin Ser­vers, the I/O and cost-effec­ti­ve­ness focu­sed WIO line of A+ Ser­vers, as well as dual AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors with mul­ti-GPU ser­vers sup­port­ing eight dou­ble-width GPUs in 4U, NVIDIA HGX A100 8‑GPU in 4U, 4‑GPU in 2U. With PCI‑E 4.0 x16 sup­port, the­se A+ Ser­vers can deli­ver 200G net­work con­nec­ti­vi­ty and fea­ture a lar­ge, ultra-fast sto­rage foot­print and DDR4 memo­ry up 3200MHz to deli­ver record-brea­king per­for­mance with com­pel­ling TCO and TCE.

Work­sta­tion Port­fo­lio Solutions

Super­mi­cro Work­sta­tion sys­tems are high­ly cus­to­mizable and can be pur­po­se-built for archi­tec­tu­re engi­nee­ring and con­s­truc­tion (AEC), media and enter­tain­ment (M&E), engi­nee­ring and manu­fac­tu­ring, pro­duct design and simu­la­ti­on, oil and gas, and deep lear­ning appli­ca­ti­ons. For more infor­ma­ti­on on Supermicro’s com­ple­te line of Work­sta­tion solu­ti­ons, visit Work­sta­tion.

The work­sta­tion also pro­vi­des Supermicro’s data cen­ter ser­ver level of robust manage­ment fea­ture set for deploy­ment and main­ten­an­ce, inclu­ding IPMI and Red­fi­sh APIs allo­wing IT mana­gers to mana­ge remo­te­ly, moni­tor, res­to­re, and upgrade sys­tems. Addi­tio­nal­ly, unli­ke simi­lar com­pe­ti­ti­ve offe­rings, the sys­tem has a dedi­ca­ted cham­ber for optio­nal liquid coo­ling for cus­to­mers that requi­re hig­her ther­mal and acou­stic per­for­mance. Super­mi­cro ser­vice and sup­port ensu­res seam­less inte­gra­ti­on of sys­tem opti­ons and to maxi­mi­ze per­for­mance for desi­red workloads. In addi­ti­on, the sys­tem sup­ports Trus­ted Plat­form Modu­le (TPM) for enhan­ced security.