Supermicro Adds New Petascale JBOF All-Flash Storage Solution Integrating NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU for AI Data Pipeline Acceleration
Oct 16, 2024
San Jose (California) [US], October 16: Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is launching a new optimized storage system for high performance AI training, inference and HPC workloads. This JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash) system utilizes up to four NVIDIA BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs) in a 2U form factor to run software-defined storage workloads. Each BlueField-3 DPU features 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and hardware acceleration for high computation storage and networking workloads such as encryption, compression and erasure coding, as well as AI storage expansion. The state-of-the-art, dual port JBOF architecture enables active-active clustering ensuring high availability for scale up mission critical storage applications as well as scale-out storage such as object storage and parallel file systems. New JBOF Architecture Enables Storage ISVs and Cloud Service Providers to Build High-Performance, Efficient, and Intelligent Data Platforms for the Era of AI.
