Supermicro Brings Superior Performance and Efficiency to AI at the Edge
New Servers Drive Smarter, Faster, and More Efficient AI from the Data Center to the Edge with Entire Range of Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors Supporting Over 40% More Memory Bandwidth and up to 144 CPU Cores
Supermicro, Inc. is introducing many new systems fully optimized for edge and embedded workloads. Several of these new compact servers, based on the latest Intel Xeon 6 SoC processor family (formerly codenamed Granite Rapids-D), empower businesses to optimize real-time AI inferencing and enable smarter applications across many key industries.
Systems for AI and embedded workloads
“As the demand for Edge AI solutions grows, businesses need highly reliable, compact systems that can process data at the edge in real-time,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “At Supermicro, we design and deploy the industry’s broadest range of application-optimized systems from the data center to the far edge. Our latest edge server generation delivers advanced AI capabilities for enhanced efficiency and decision-making close to where the data is generated. With up to 2.5 times core count increase at the edge and improved performance per watt and core, these new Supermicro compact systems are fully optimized for workloads such as Edge AI, telecom, networking, and CDN.”
Supermicro’s SYS-112D-36C-FN3P features the Intel Xeon 6 SoC with 36 P-cores, dual 100 GbE QSFP28 ports, up to 512GB of DDR5 memory, and one PCIe 5.0 FHFL slot for a GPU or other add-on card. Combined with Intel’s onboard Media Acceleration and QuickAssist technologies, this makes the system ideal for Edge AI and media workloads, and with a chassis only 399mm/15.7inches deep and with front I/O access, it can easily be deployed in space-constrained environments or embedded in larger systems. Another server based on the same platform, the SYS-112D-42C-FN8P, provides a more telco-optimized configuration, featuring 8 25GbE ports, built-in GNSS and time sync technology, and an Intel Xeon 6 SoC model featuring Intel vRAN Boost. Combining these features makes this model an all-in-one platform for various workloads in the RAN network.
Supermicro is also introducing two new compact systems, the SYS-E201-14AR and SYS-E300-14AR, which are optimized for IoT and AI inferencing at the far edge. Both systems feature the 15th Gen Intel® CoreTM Ultra processors (codenamed Arrow Lake), which feature up to 24 cores and an onboard NPU (Neural Processing Unit) AI accelerator. Both systems have two 2.5 GbE network ports and connectors for HDMI, Display, and USB, and they are optimized for enterprise edge use cases. The SYS-E300 can also be expanded to feature a single PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, allowing for the installation of a PCIe GPU card, enabling the system to expand its performance for Edge AI applications in security & surveillance, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and more.
Supermicro’s edge AI systems in the edge data center can now be installed with the recently launched Intel Xeon 6700/6500 series processor with P-cores. This processor group is designed for the enterprise data center, aiming for a strong balance between performance and efficiency and delivering an average of 1.4x better performance than the previous generation across a wide range of enterprise workloads. Supermicro’s 2U Edge AI product family, such as the SYS-212B-FLN2T, combines Intel’s new processor with up to 6 single-width GPU accelerators in a short-depth, front I/O form factor that can be deployed at