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Supermicro Adds New Petascale JBOF All-Flash Storage Solution Integrating NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU for AI Data Pipeline Acceleration
New JBOF Architecture Enables Storage ISVs and Cloud Service Providers to Build High-Performance, Efficient, and Intelligent Data Platforms for the Era of AI
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[{"type":"text","content":"New JBOF Architecture Enables Storage ISVs and Cloud Service Providers to Build High-Performance, Efficient, and Intelligent Data Platforms for the Era of AI\nSAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"Supermicro's new high performance JBOF Storage System is designed using our Building Block approach which enables support for either E3.S or U.2 form-factor SSDs and the latest PCIe Gen 5 connectivity for the SSDs and the DPU networking and storage platform,\" said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. \"Supermicro's system design supports 24 or 36 SSD's enabling up to 1.105PB of raw capacity using 30.71TB SSDs. Our balanced network and storage I/O design can saturate the full 400 Gb/s BlueField-3 line-rate realizing more than 250GB/s bandwidth of the Gen 5 SSDs.\"\nFor more information on the Supermicro's storage solutions for AI, please visit: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/storage.\nThe Supermicro JBOF with NVIDIA BlueField-3 solution replaces the traditional storage CPU and memory subsystem with the BlueField-3 DPU and runs the storage application on the DPU's 16 Arm cores. In addition to storage acceleration such as erasure coding and decompression algorithms, the BlueField-3 also accelerates networking through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), GPU Direct Storage and GPU Initiated Storage.\n\"Accelerated computing and AI are transforming every industry and delivering benefits for society,\" said Kevin Deierling, sen...