Supermicro to Support NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU on Industry's Broadest Portfolio of Servers Optimized for Accelerated Computational Workloads in AI, AR/DR, and Data Analytics

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI) announced its commitment to support the new NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, aimed at enhancing performance across various server systems. The certification program will cover multiple products, ensuring broad compatibility by 2021. This collaboration is expected to solidify Supermicro's position in the data center market, leveraging its rapid time-to-market capabilities. NVIDIA's BlueField-2 DPU offers improved security and efficiency, marking it as a crucial component in modern data centers, enhancing overall server performance.

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• Partnership with NVIDIA to support BlueField-2 DPU enhances product offerings.
• Broad range of systems certified for DPU support, ensuring market competitiveness.
• NVIDIA DPU integration expected to improve server performance and efficiency.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today announced its intent to support the new NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU (data processing unit). NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU are sampling now, and Supermicro will conduct an aggressive certification program for the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, encompassing a broad range of Supermicro's market-leading systems with planned availability in 2021. These will include 1U, 2U, 4U, 10U rackmount GPU systems, Ultra, BigTwin™, 8U SuperBlade, and additional embedded solutions. Supermicro products support the advanced data requirements from the edge to the cloud.

"Supermicro is NVIDIA's close technology collaborator and is ready to deliver end to end cloud solutions, and edge using NVIDIA DPUs," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Leveraging Supermicro's well known rapid time-to-market capabilities, we expect to offer many of the industry's first systems incorporating the BlueField-2 DPU to boost performance on all accelerated workloads for customers in growing dynamic markets."

Many of Supermicro's products can take advantage of the latest in DPU acceleration technologies from NVIDIA. Supermicro's SuperBlade has GPU blade servers built on PCIe Gen4.0 along with a non-blocking 200Gbps HDR InfiniBand switch, which provides the infrastructure needed for DPUs to offload data management tasks from the CPU. 

The new NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU combines a programmable multi-core ARM CPU, state-of-the-art 200G/100G SmartNIC networking, high-performance PCIe interface, and a powerful set of networking, storage, and security accelerators. The NVIDIA DPU offloads critical tasks and frees up the host CPU to run applications while enhancing security, efficiency, and manageability for servers running any operating system or hypervisor.

"NVIDIA DPUs are becoming the most critical element of a secure accelerated data center, a required component for modern times," said Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. "By incorporating the BlueField-2 DPU into their future lineup, Supermicro is giving their customers that extra edge required in today's race to build the modern data center."

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Supermicro (Nasdaq: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology, is a premier provider of advanced Server Building Block Solutions® for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment through its "We Keep IT Green®" initiative and provides customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly solutions available on the market.

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FAQ

What is Supermicro's announcement regarding NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU?

Supermicro announced its intent to support NVIDIA's BlueField-2 DPU, integrating it into a wide range of server solutions by 2021.

How will the BlueField-2 DPU impact Supermicro's products?

The BlueField-2 DPU will enhance performance and efficiency across Supermicro's server systems, boosting capabilities for accelerated workloads.

What are the expected benefits of NVIDIA's BlueField-2 DPU?

The BlueField-2 DPU is designed to improve security, efficiency, and manageability for modern data centers, offloading critical tasks from CPUs.

When will Supermicro's systems with BlueField-2 DPU be available?

Supermicro plans to have systems supporting the BlueField-2 DPU available in 2021.

What types of Supermicro products will support NVIDIA's BlueField-2 DPU?

Supermicro's support for the BlueField-2 DPU will include a variety of systems, such as 1U, 2U, and 4U rackmount GPU systems and SuperBlade.