GIGABYTE expands its product line with additional NVIDIA-certified GPU server configurations.

GIGABYTE Technology announced on June 3rd, 2021 that additional GIGABYTE servers have been added to the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, which validates optimal server configurations using NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs and NVIDIA SmartNICs, including the newly added NVIDIA BlueFIeld-2 DPUs. This program helps customers confidently deploy servers or clusters to meet the demands of AI and data science applications in mainstream data centers. As GPU acceleration and network functions offload from the CPU to process data more efficiently, GIGABYTE solutions are positioned to help customers upgrade their infrastructure. NVIDIA BlueFIeld-2 DPUs offload critical networking, storage, and security tasks from CPUs, enabling organizations to transform their IT infrastructure into state-of-the-art data centers that are accelerated, fully programmable and armed with "zero-trust" security features to prevent data breaches and cyberattacks.

Five GIGABYTE servers were previously validated with the NVIDIA A100 40GB GPU: the R282-Z96, R281-G30, G492-Z51, G482-Z54, and G242-Z11. The newly certified models provide GPU acceleration and low-latency, fast Ethernet communication. The complete list of NVIDIA-Certified servers from GIGABYTE includes the GPU-centric G-series servers—G242-Z11, G292-Z20, G292-Z24, G292-Z40, G482-Z54, and G492-Z51—and the general-purpose R-series servers: R281-G30, R282-Z96, and R282-Z93. "The incredible amount of data being generated today has motivated us to continue innovating and engineering processors with a high level of compute performance that are optimized for workloads from in-memory analytics to edge computing," said Greg Ernst, Intel Vice President, US Sales. "Our collaboration with GIGABYTE is delivering faster time-to-market servers based on the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor."

Extending server reach beyond x86 architecture, the GIGABYTE G242 is the first and only server qualified for NVIDIA with Arm architecture CPUs and is available now. The NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit is validated with Arm cores and NVIDIA technology inside a GIGABYTE server with ready hardware and software for developers. GIGABYTE is also announcing support for NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, a simple-to-deploy end-to-end 3D collaboration and true-to-reality simulation platform optimized to run on NVIDIA RTX professional systems. According to Daniel Hou, VP of Network & Communication Business Unit at GIGABYTE, "The validation of our servers by NVIDIA is another example of our commitment to technology partners that improves results for our customers. We selected our top performing systems to be put through a number of tests, and our resulting NVIDIA certification cements GIGABYTE's reputation as a top tier manufacturer for enterprise products that give customers excellent value." GIGABYTE is presenting at Computex 2021, running from May 31 to June 30, with booths discussing products and industries, including one dedicated to HPC focusing on accelerators in servers.