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SAN JOSE, California, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

  - Supermicro Delivers Advanced AMD Based GPU Servers With Double the I/O

    Bandwidth and 200Gb Networking to the Goethe University Frankfurt CSC

    Supercomputer Center to Support Computationally Intensive Research

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise

computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today

announced that the Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) has chosen

Supermicro's 4U 8 GPU A+ server with PCI-E Gen 4 and 200Gb/s networking (AS

-4124GS-TNR) as the foundation for their next generation of High-Performance

Computing (HPC) servers.  CSC is an initiative of the Frankfurt Institute for

Advanced Studies, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

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The Supermicro AS-4124GS-TNR is an advanced state-of-the-art server that

incorporates AMD EPYC(TM) processors that have been designed to eliminate

bottlenecks in the transfer of data between main host memory and the GPUs. When

equipped with Radeon Instinct(TM) MI50 GPU accelerators, this server enables

researchers to conduct their investigations exceptionally fast.

"Supermicro is excited to once again partner with the leading HPC center at

Goethe University Frankfurt to deliver our powerful new A+ Server with

exceptional CPU, GPU, and networking performance," said Vik Malyala, senior

vice president, Supermicro. "We continue to innovate our products so that our

customers have a wide range of options to match their requirements with the

best-of-breed components. Clusters based on these 2nd generation AMD EPYC CPU

and Radeon Instinct MI50 GPU powered servers easily deliver peak performance

and provide efficiency for a wide range of applications. Researchers can

leverage innovative new artificial intelligence (AI) solutions with these

advanced features. Supermicro looks forward to a productive and mutually

beneficial partnership with Goethe University."

Goethe University Frankfurt hosts a leading supercomputer center that serves a

wide range of international scientists and researchers. A new and powerful

supercomputer was needed to support researchers from varied disciplines who

needed significantly increased processing capacity. The team assigned to

architect and choose the new supercomputer investigated several server

solutions that contained both CPUs and GPUs.  Of practical interest was a

system that supported the PCI Express 4.0 specification, which allows for up to

64 GB/second of data transfer between host memory and GPU. This performance

requirement is critical for applications that must exchange data with the GPU.

Previous PCI Express interfaces were too slow for high-performance applications

that relied on the fastest GPUs available, and thus a system with PCI Express

4.0 bus readiness was required.

"As we designed and are now implementing our latest supercomputer, our

partnership with Supermicro and AMD has been critical," stated Prof. Dr. Volker

Lindenstruth, Chair for HPC architecture at Goethe University." We have been

able to collaborate with their technical engineers to describe our

computational challenges and our potential bottlenecks based on previous

generations of servers. Both Supermicro and AMD have responded with a balanced

system that can easily be utilized by a wide range of scientists who require a

scalable and optimized cluster of fast servers for their research. Especially

the design that allows the integration of eight GPUs and up to two 200Gb/s

connectivity network cards without any PCI Express switch provides clear

advantages for application performance."

The Goethe University Frankfurt supercomputing center serves a diverse set of

researchers and scientists. By utilizing servers that contain state-of-the-art

CPUs, GPUs, and networking, applications that range from particle physics to

climate change simulations can be executed and accelerated on the AS

-4124GS-TNR servers. Additionally, requests have made for system time for

computational chemistry applications, neutron star simulations, and lattice QCD

investigations. All of these (and more) applications rely on the powerful

performance of the AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerators. Recently (mid-2020),

Goethe University Frankfurt has been using HPC technologies to simulate the

spread of the COVID-19 virus to understand how future pandemics spread could be

prevented.

"Supercomputers today require unprecedented computational power to perform the

large-scale simulations and complex medical analysis that are critical to

driving the next generation of research.  At the heart of these systems are the

latest in CPU and GPU technology," said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president

and general manager, data center and embedded systems group, AMD. "The AMD

EPYC(TM) processors and Radeon Instinct(TM) MI50 GPUs powering the latest

Supermicro server deliver leading I/O bandwidth and exceptional performance to

reach better results, faster for our most demanding scientific challenges."

Goethe University Frankfurt ran several benchmarks to understand the

performance of the AS -4124GS-TNR selected a server, the AS -4124GS-TNR, that

contained both 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerators.

An even more relevant benchmark is how the system performs when running

multiple independent jobs that use all the available cores. The purpose of this

type of benchmark is to understand real-world use of a server and measure the

performance of applications running concurrently. The optimized system

supporting CPUs, GPUs, High Performance I/O and Networking showed that HPC

applications are not dramatically impacted by other active applications,

demonstrating the superior architecture of the balanced system design.

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About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (Nasdaq: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance,

high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced Server

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Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to

protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green(R)" initiative and

provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly

solutions available on the market.

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