Supermicro, Inc., a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, announced a new optimized storage server for high-performance software-defined storage workloads. This first-of-its-class storage server from a major Tier 1 provider utilizes Supermicro's system design expertise to create a high-density storage server for software-defined workloads found in AI and ML training and inferencing, analytics and enterprise storage workloads. Supermicro worked closely with NVIDIA and WEKA to enable customers to create power-efficient high-performance storage systems for their AI factories.

"The Supermicro Petascale server with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip highlights Supermicro's focus on innovation and customer choice," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "We have developed the Petascale storage server using the NVIDIA Grace CPU with 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores enabling high-performance I/O for software-defined storage workloads. We have demonstrated that the system can fully unleash the system's PCIe Gen 5 performance SSD bandwidth with linear scalability. Supermicro continues to bring to market the most advanced and optimized storage solutions available."For more information about the new Grace Storage server, please visit www.supermicro.com/en/products/petascale-grace-storage.

Utilizing Supermicro's Building Block Solutions system design strategy, the ARS-121L-NE316R 1U storage system incorporates a symmetrical architecture perfect for scaling AI workloads. The Supermicro Petascale storage server using the energy efficient NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, supports 16 hot-swap EDSFF PCIe Gen 5 E3.S NVMe drives enabling 983 TB raw capacity using 61.44 TB SSDs and a rack containing 40 systems provides 39.3PB of raw storage capacity.

"We worked closely together on the development and testing of Supermicro's storage server with NVIDIA Grace, giving storage software providers a range of hardware choices to meet different application requirements," said Rob Davis, vice president of storage networking technology at NVIDIA. "This new storage server allows customers to benefit from NVIDIA's innovations in both CPUs and DPUs to accelerate networking protocols, such as GPU Direct Storage, while using less power than comparable x86 servers."