Supermicro, Inc , a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage and 5G/Edge, announced a new VMware vSAN solution optimized to run enterprise-class hyperconverged, virtualized workloads. As virtualized workloads become more sophisticated, processing power and storage performance requirements increase. More capacity is needed to meet service level agreements for applications and to maximize virtual machine density. This solution also uses the latest Intel AMX accelerator for AI workloads.
Compared to the Supermicro X11 BigTwin, benchmark tests conducted by Supermicro showed up to 4.7X higher IO throughput and 8.2X lower latency on the HCIBench benchmark, up to 4.9X faster image classification inference throughput on the ResNet50 model, and up to 4X faster natural language processing on the BERT-Large model. In addition, the superior power and efficiency of the Supermicro X13 BigTwin architecture can deliver up to 3X lower cost and performance within the same node footprint over a comparable implementation based on legacy Supermicro systems, providing organizations with a compelling case for their upgrade aging infrastructure.
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“Supermicro continues to lead the HCI industry with the industry’s first Gen5 vSAN solution based on 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors,” said Charles Liang , president and CEO of Supermicro . “Our industry-leading Supermicro BigTwin platform supports the latest generation of flash storage media in dense, multi-node form factors optimized for HCI to run vSAN out of the box. Supermicro’s X13 BigTwin and vSAN customers can benefit from 4.7X higher throughput and 8 .2X lower latency in the HCIBench benchmark with gen-over-gen performance improvements. This solution enables customers to run more instances on the same hardware and rack space, improving performance and utilization while reducing costs.”
The Supermicro X13 BigTwin platform provides the ideal balance of compute, memory density, storage capacity and redundancy for HCI deployments, with vSAN-ready nodes that can be deployed out of the box without the need for traditional enterprise storage systems. The Supermicro X13 architecture with 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors supports the latest PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives from leading vendors for unprecedented storage performance.
The Supermicro X13 BigTwin solution is available in a 2U 2-node or 2U 4-node configuration with optional liquid cooling. Each node is powered by up to two 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to 4TB of DDR5-4800MHz memory. The system runs the latest VMWare vSAN 8.0 software stack with the new Express Storage Architecture (ESA) to create a single storage pool for the maximum 48 NVMe drives accessible by the four nodes.
SOURCE: PRNewswire