Fast deployment and operation with all components needed to equip AI/IT data centers.
Supermicro, Inc. has introduced Data Center Building Block Solutions, designed to simplify the setup of liquid-cooled AI data centers by providing all essential infrastructure components, such as servers, storage, networking, racks, liquid cooling, software, services, and support. This solution expands on Supermicro’s System Building Block Solutions with a standardized yet adaptable architecture to support AI training and inference workloads, aiming to streamline data center planning, construction, and operation while helping to reduce costs.
DCBBS provides pre-validated, scalable data center units, such as a 256-node AI Factory configuration. These packages include essential components like floor plans, rack elevations, and bills of materials to simplify the data center design process. Supermicro supports projects through consultation, deployment, and ongoing on-site services. The DCBBS offering is customizable at the system, rack, and data center levels to suit a range of project needs.
Combined with DLC-2 technology, DCBBS is designed to improve energy efficiency, reduce data center space requirements and water usage, and help lower total cost of ownership by approximately 20%.
AI factory data center-level scalable unit
The need for AI infrastructure continues to scale: AI training clusters require clusters of thousands of GPUs to develop foundation models. AI inference applications are also leveraging more test-time compute capacity by running multiple inference passes with a mixture of models to deliver greater intelligence. Supermicro’s AI Factory DCBBS package fully equips data centers to tackle these rising AI computational requirements.
Solutions from Supermicro include up to 256 Liquid Cooled 4U Supermicro NVIDIA HGX system nodes, each system equipped with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (2,048 GPUs in total), interconnected with up to 800Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA SpectrumX Ethernet networking platform. The compute fabric is supported by elastically scalable tiered storage with high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe, TCO optimized Data Lake nodes, and resilient management system nodes for continuous uninterrupted operation.
System-level, rack-level, and data center-level customization
Supermicro features a modular building block approach, composed of three hierarchical levels: the system-level, rack-level, and data center level, giving customers unparalleled design options in determining a system-level bill of materials, down to selecting individual components, including CPUs, GPUs, DIMMs, drives, and NICs. System-level customization ensures the ability to meet specialized hardware requirements for a particular data center workloads and applications and allows for granular fine-tuning of data center resources.
Supermicro aids in designing rack enclosure elevation layouts to ensure optimization for thermals and cabling, giving customers the ability to select the type of rack enclosure, including 42U, 48U, and 52U configurations.
After the initial consultation with the customer, Supermicro delivers a project proposal tailored to a given data center power budget, performance target, or other requirements.
Supermicro DLC-2
With liquid-cooled data centers growing from less than 1% of the market to an expected 30% within a year, Supermicro is driving the industry-wide adoption of DLC by helping customers achieve the challenge of needing to build new liquid-cooled data centers that can more efficiently remove heat.
DLC provides unmatched efficiency by capturing heat directly from the individual chips, including AI GPUs running at 1000W TDP and beyond. Liquid cooling infrastructure is planned and deployed at data center scale, including the piping and facility-side liquid cooling tower for heat dissipation. Supermicro leads the industry in providing a total solution for direct-to-chip liquid cooling infrastructure, consisting of DLC systems, in-rack or in-row coolant distribution units, coolant distribution manifolds, cooling towards, and more. Supermicro’s DLC-2 brings further improvements:
| Cold Plates | CPU, GPU, PCle Switch, DIMM, VRM, PSU and more |
| Max Inlet Water Temperature | Up to 45°C |
| Noise Level | As low as 50dB |
| LC Heat Capture | Up to 98% |
| Data Center Power Savings (vs. Air-cooling) | Up to 40% |
Service and software building blocks
DCBBS includes the services required to achieve time-to-market and time-to-online quickly, without having to drain the customer’s own IT resources. Supermicro offers a complete portfolio of service-level building blocks such as datacenter design, solution validation, and professional onsite deployment. It includes continued on-site support to ensure long-term success, along with a 4-hour Onsite Response time option for mission-critical uptime.
Supermicro’s SuperCloud Composer provides a suite of infrastructure management capabilities, with rich analytics that manage compute, storage, and network building blocks at cloud scale.
In addition to services, Supermicro has broad expertise in data center application integration, including AI training, AI inferencing, cluster management, and workload orchestration. This includes supporting customers deploying the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Supermicro provides full services for software provisioning and validation based on the customer’s software stack.
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