Hi. This is Liam from GIGABYTE Marketing.
And Today I've got something a lot of customers have been anticipating,
and that is our new Ampere Altra servers.
These servers are perfect for the cloud and edge applications.
Ampere built a new line of Ampere Altra processors using Arm architecture.
And they chose this architecture because of its efficient scaling, high performance,
and its high level of instructions.
And today I want to introduce a little bit more about what is the Ampere Alta processor
as well as what servers does GIGABYTE offer for it.
And we will take a look at one model in particular,
our G242 that focuses on heterogeneous computing.
But before doing so I want to give proof,
an example of why Arm architecture is successful.
The #1 supercomputer is Fugaku.
And it uses Arm cores.
And they were chosen for its efficiency.
Now these Arm cores are also being used in our phones and tablets as well.
And today we will see it in our new line of servers.
At GIGABYTE we know it is difficult to try to find a server to match everyones’ type of needs.
That’s why we offer over 100 different models of servers
for the latest generation of AMD, Intel, and Ampere chips.
And for the new Ampere Altra line of processors
we are announcing 4 new server models.
The edge server: E252-P30, which is a small form factor server.
Two general-purpose rack servers: the 1U R152-P30 and 2U R272-P30.
Last the GPU dense server: G242-P31 which we will look at today.
Now I want to give a brief overview of the Ampere Altra line of processors.
Moving from x86 to Arm for the cloud is right with Ampere Altra.
Ampere has specifically designed the chip targeting the cloud and edge.
The new chips have all the features one would expect and want in 2021,
PCIe Gen 4…100+ PCIe lanes…8 channel memory,
support for 3200 DDR4 and so forth.
We say it has predictable performance because of the high core count,
up to 80 cores, the large cache available, and the PCIe gen 4 for throughput.
Second, it has scalability.
Adding more 1U or 2U servers will be easy and need less
thanks to the high core count giving Ampere a dense ratio of cores/rack.
And there are single or dual slot options.
Last is the power efficiency.
For our high-end 250W range CPUs that have 40 or 64 cores,
Ampere outnumbers them and does so with the same amount of power.
Also, Altra has advanced power management to adjust to workloads and improve TCO.
Just recently NVIDIA announced the first Arm server validated by NVIDIA
to be used with NVIDIA GPUs.
It has been dubbed the NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit.
And it was done for in this G242 chassis.
It uses our GIGABYTE G242 server and comes with two NVIDIA A100 cards
and two Bluefield 2 cards for safe and efficient scaling.
And more importantly, at the heart of it all,
the 80 core Ampere Altra processor.
This Dev Kit has support for NVIDIA HPC SDK,
which is a suite of GPU accelerated compilers and libraries for compute intensive applications.
Now for specifics on the G242-P31 that we see here.
It is a single socket system that supports all Ampere Altra chips up to 80 cores
and can accommodate two NVIDIA A100 cards and two Bluefield cards.
For memory, 16 DIMMs.
As this server is in the G series it has a GPU focus
and allows for heterogeneous components to perform well using CCIX protocol
and can accommodate 4 GPUs using dual redundant 1600W power supplies.
Besides the GPU lanes,
there are also expansion slots available for networking or storage.
And in terms of storage,
there are 4 SATA/SAS drive bays as well as 2 M.2 slots.
Also there is a depth of OS compatibility,
from Red Hat to SUSE to Ubuntu and more.
All in all this server has predictable performance
and displays the best in heterogeneous computing.
Today I hope I succeeded at educating you about our Ampere Altra servers.
And while we only saw single socket servers today,
we do have some dual socket coming out in the future.
For more information
visit us at www.gigabyte.com/enterprise.
Or you can email us directly at server.grp@gigabyte.com
Thank you.