Accelerate Cloud-Native
Accelerate Cloud-Native
Introducing New Supermicro X14 Servers with Intel® Xeon® 6
Welcome to the launch of the more powerful, efficient, and versatile Supermicro X14 portfolio powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors. Supermicro’s VP of Technology Enablement Ray Pang is joined by Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group, Justin Hotard, to discuss how Supermicro X14 systems and Intel Xeon 6 processors are optimized to accelerate cloud-native and scale-out workloads with maximum performance and efficiency.
Supermicro X14 Portfolio of Customized Solutions
Supermicro new X14 solutions based on the upcoming Xeon 6 CPUs are the most flexible in the industry. Supermicro introduces new systems that are customized for each unique customer workload. This customization allows Supermicro to optimize solutions to meet specific user workload requirements bringing significant performance and efficiency benefits for cloud-native and scale-out workloads.
Supermicro New X14 Systems
Introducing new Supermicro X14 Systems, powered by the upcoming Xeon 6 processors from Intel. Ryan Tabrah, the VP and GM of Xeon 6 Xeon E-Core Products at Intel Corporation explains how the market needs are bifurcating resulting in Intel delivering both E-Cores and P-Cores, to address this new market evolution.
Supermicro and Intel Reveal the Upcoming Xeon 6 Processor
Supermicro and Intel show what the upcoming Xeon 6 processor looks like and discuss the benefits this CPU will provide for customers. Ryan Tabrah explains how customers can optimize for their specific workloads with the Xeon 6 processor in systems delivered by Supermicro.
Supermicro New X14 Rack Scale Solutions
Rack scale solutions based on the new Supermicro X14 servers with upcoming Xeon 6 processors can cut power consumption in data centers by almost half. Collaboration between Supermicro and Intel helps customers save energy and significantly reduce their carbon footprint with liquid cooling solutions at rack scale deployments. Jerry Dien from Supermicro explains what makes Supermicro the industry leader in creating optimized Total IT Solutions at any scale.
Ultimate Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility with X14
Introducing the more powerful, efficient, and versatile Supermicro X14 portfolio. X14 combines the flexibility of Supermicro’s industry-leading Building Block Solutions with Supermicro’s rack-scale integration and complete liquid cooling solutions to deliver customized, workload-optimized solutions at any scale for a range of AI, HPC, Cloud, and Edge workloads. Powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors (formerly codenamed Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids), Supermicro X14 deliver higher performance-per-watt and performance-per-core to accelerate any workload.
The Supermicro X14 Advantage
Ultimate flexibility for every workload, from a single server to rack-scale solutions
- Complete Rack-Scale Solutions
- Full design, integration, validation and testing services for rack-scale and multi-rack clusters
- Complete rack-scale liquid cooling solutions developed in house
- Global manufacturing capacity of 5,000 racks per month including 1,350 liquid-cooled racks
- Full-rack lead times as low as two weeks
- Performance and Energy Optimized
- Enhanced thermal capacity to support the highest performing CPUs and GPUs
- Optimized to run in high-temperature data center environments up to 40°C
- In-house design of Titanium Level power supplies for maximum efficiency
- Improved Security and Manageability
- Industry-standard compliance for hardware and silicon Root of Trust (RoT)
- Cryptographical attestation of components throughout the entire supply chain
- Comprehensive remote management capabilities and software
- Supports Open Industry Standards
- The latest industry technologies including PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL 2.0
- Open Compute Project (OCP) standards including including DC-MHS and OCP 3.0
- EDSFF E3.S and E1.S storage form factors
- See the Supermicro Product Brief for detailed configuration and testing information.
- See 5th Gen Benchmarks article for detailed information.
- Average performance gain as measured by the geomean of SPEC CPU rate, STREAM Triad, and LINPACK compared to 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® processor. See G1 at intel.com/processorclaims: 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors. Results may vary.
- New Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors
- Higher core count for greater compute density
- Faster memory bandwidth and new capabilities to extend capacity
- EDSFF E1.S and E3.S NVMe support
- Data Center Modular Hardware System (DC-MHS) support
Cloud Data Center
Highly flexible and configurable rackmount servers ideal for cloud data centers and enterprise applications
Supermicro X14 offers a range of flexible and scalable rackmount solutions optimized for cloud data center, scale-out, and enterprise workloads including cloud-native CDN, scale-out analytics, and cloud services. For maximum performance and flexibility, Hyper supports the highest TDP processors and allows multiple PCIe and storage configurations including all-flash NVMe, while the new CloudDC with DC-MHS is designed to simplify deployment and maintenance for large-scale cloud data center deployments. For general, enterprise and cloud compute needs, WIO provides a balance of compute and efficiency with flexible I/O configurations.
New Intel Xeon 6700 series processors with E-cores are optimized to deliver ultra-high-density compute in the most power-efficient manner. These processors are performance-per-watt optimized with high core density and high-throughput performance, enabling precise matching of CPU compute requirements with the highly flexible X14 rackmount server range for maximum workload optimization and efficiency.
X14 Systems
- Hyper
- CloudDC with DC-MHS
- WIO
High-Density Cloud
Maximum core density and shared components for maximum efficiency
Supermicro X14 multi-node architectures are designed to meet the high core density requirements of large-scale cloud computing, CDN, and scale-out storage applications, with new support for the industry-standard EDSFF storage form factors to provide higher density and throughput. The density-optimized, highly efficient SuperBlade supports up to 20 nodes in an 8U enclosure with shared power, cooling and ethernet switch, while the single-processor optimized GrandTwin features front accessibility and I/O to simplify cold-aisle servicing and maintenance.
The new Intel Xeon 6700 series processors with E-cores bring up to 2.5x higher core density per rack compared to 4th Gen Intel Xeon and improved performance per watt to enable Supermicro X14 multi-node solutions to deliver significantly more compute capacity in a smaller physical footprint.
X14 Systems
- SuperBlade®
- BigTwin®
- GrandTwin®
Edge and Telco
Data center performance and maximum efficiency for the intelligent edge
Supermicro X14 edge and telco systems are optimized for remote and on-premise locations where power and space are at a premium. The flagship Hyper-E dual processor configuration facilitates maximum core density for edge data centers while also supporting multiple double-width GPUs for edge AI inferencing. X14 short-depth systems feature front I/O, optional DC power supplies, and NEBS compliance, enabling easy integration into existing telco and edge infrastructure.
Compared to previous generations, the new Intel Xeon 6 processors deliver higher performance-per-watt, enhanced on-board accelerators, and more cores in the same or lower power envelope. These improvements allow for heavier workloads in power-constrained environments, and result in more efficient systems optimized for edge and telco workloads.
X14 Systems
- Hyper-E
- Short-depth
Storage
Maximum throughput and density with EDSFF drive and CXL 2.0 support
The AI revolution is using and generating massive amounts of data and these workloads require application-specific architectures at every stage of the data pipeline. Supermicro’s flagship X14 Petascale storage platform offers the best architecture to drive large-scale, data-intensive AI and HPC workloads, offering industry-leading memory bandwidth using up to eight Type 3 CXL modules. With up to 24 E3.S drives in 2U and unprecedented end-to end PCIe Gen5 performance, new X14 Petascale systems can help organizations to reach their performance and capacity goals with greater rack density than ever before.
The new Intel Xeon 6 processors support the latest PCIe Gen 5 standard to handle the high throughput of a large number of NVMe drives and get the maximum performance out of the new Gen 5 E3.S drives, as well as CXL 2.0 on all device types to maximize memory capacity for in-memory database applications.
X14 Systems
- Petascale
Supermicro X14 Supports Intel Xeon 6700 Series Processors with E-Cores
More Cores and PCIe Lanes
Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores feature up to 144 cores per CPU and up to 136 lanes of PCIe
Common Platform
Shared hardware and software platform add flexibility with pin compatibility between E-core and P-core processors for added flexibility
New E-Cores
Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-Cores are designed for improved rack density and performance per watt on Cloud and scale-out workloads
Enhanced Memory
Intel Xeon 6 processors support up to 8 channels of DDR5 per CPU and CXL 2.0 for all device types
Intel Xeon 6 Processors with E-Cores
Upcoming Intel Xeon 6 Processors with P-Cores (Formerly Codenamed Granite Rapids)
- Media transcode workloads vs 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. See [7T1] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.
- Media transcode workloads vs 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. See [7T1] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.
- Demonstrated performance with MCR-8800 DIMM vs 5th Gen Intel Xeon
- 1-node, 2 x 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ processors with 1,024 GB (16 x 64 GB) 4,800 MT/s DDR4, SK hynix total memory, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) on, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology on, ucode 0x2b000461, CentOS Stream 8, 6.1.11-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64, Samsung MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 1.8 TB, PyTorch/GPT-J 6B, dataset CNN_Dailymail, MLPerf approved GPT-J model, precision: INT8, BF16, INT4, QPS=.14, tested by Intel on 09/09/2023. 1-node, 2 x future-gen Intel Xeon processor, codenamed Granite Rapids, with 1,536 GB (24 x 64 GB) 8,800 MT/s MCRDIMM total memory, Intel HT Technology on, Intel Turbo Boost Technology on, ucode 0xf81913a0, Redhat 9.0 5.19.0-gnr.po.bkc.1.0.1.x86_646.1.11-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64, 1x SSK Storage 953.9 GB, PyTorch / GPT-J 6B, dataset CNN_Dailymail, MLPerf approved GPT-J model, precision: INT8, BF16, INT4, QPS=.36, tested by Intel on 09/09/2023.