Supermicro has announced its X14 server portfolio with future support for the Intel® Xeon® 6 processor. The combination of Supermicro’s Building Block Architecture, rack plug-and-play and liquid cooling solutions, and the breadth of the new Intel Xeon 6 processor family means Supermicro can deliver optimized solutions for any workload and at any scale, with superior performance and efficiency.
The upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processor portfolio will be available with Efficient-core (E-core) SKUs increasing performance-per-watt for cloud, networking, analytics, and scale-out workloads, and Performance-core (P-core) SKUs increasing performance-per-core for AI, HPC, Storage and Edge workloads. The upcoming processors will also feature built-in Intel Accelerator Engines with new support for FP16 on Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions.
The Supermicro portfolio of X14 systems is performance optimized and energy efficient, incorporates improved manageability and security, supports open industry standards, and is rack-scale optimized.
Liquid cooling and rack-scale integration to build application-optimized solutions of any size. Supermicro offers complete design, building, validation, and delivery services from a single rack to an entire data center cluster. In addition, a complete liquid cooling solution is available directly from Supermicro, which reduces overall data center electricity usage.
Systems are workload-optimized for maximum performance and efficiency, and the Supermicro X14 platform supports the latest generation of GPUs, DPUs, DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, Gen5 NVMe storage, and CXL 2.0.
Energy-efficient to reduce data center OPEX with support for free-air or direct-to-chip liquid cooling. Supermicro X14 systems are designed to operate in high-temperature data center environments up to 40° C (104° F), reducing cooling costs. Systems also support multiple airflow cooling zones for maximum CPU and GPU performance and are powered by in-house designed Titanium level power supplies for improved operational efficiency.
Improved security includes NIST 800-193 compliant hardware platform Root of Trust (RoT) on every server node and second-generation Silicon RoT designed to incorporate industry standards. Supermicro’s open industry standards-based attestation/supply chain assurance from motherboard manufacturing through server production to customers, cryptographically attesting the integrity of each component and firmware using signed certificates and secure device identity. Run-time BMC protections continuously monitor threats and provide notification services, and hardware TPMs provide additional capabilities and measurements needed to run systems in secure environments.
Improved manageability includes remote management built on industry standards and secure Redfish APIs, a comprehensive software suite that enables rack management at scale for IT infrastructure solutions deployed across the core to the edge and integrated and verified solutions with 3rd party standard hardware and firmware enable the best out-of-the-box experience for IT administrators.
Supermicro is committed to supporting open industry standards, including EDSFF E1.S and E3.S storage drives, Data Center Modular Hardware System (DC-MHS) architectures, OCP 3.0-compliant Advanced IO module (AIOM) cards for up to 400 Gbps bandwidth based on PCIe 5.0, OCP Open Accelerator Module Universal Base Board Designs for the GPU complex, Open ORV3-compliant DC-powered rack bus bar, and Open BMC.
