… As Well as Supermicro Into Platforms

Super Micro Computer, Inc. expands its broad portfolio of NVMe flash server and storage systems with support for Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, the most responsive data center SSD.

Supermicro’s NVMe SSD systems with Optane SSDs for the data center enable breakthrough performance compared to traditional NAND based SSDs. The Intel Optane SSDs for the data center are the first breakthrough that begins to blur the line between memory and storage, enabling customers to do more per server, or extend memory working sets to enable new usages and discoveries.

The PCIe compliant expansion card delivers a combination of 2 times better latency performance, up to more than 3 times higher endurance, and up to 3 times higher write throughput than NVMe NAND SSDs1.

Optane is supported across Supermicro’s complete product line including: BigTwin, SuperBlade, Simply Double Storage and Ultra servers supporting the current and next generation Intel Xeon Processors. These solutions enable a new high performance storage tier that combines the attributes of memory and storage for financial services, cloud, HPC, storage and overall enterprise applications.

The first generation Supermicro supported Optane SSDs are initially a PCIe compliant expansion card with additional form factors to follow.

A 2U Ultra system will be able to deliver 6 million write IO/s and 16.5TB of Optane storage. Optane will deliver performance in the 1U 10 NVMe All-Flash SuperServer and the capacity optimized 2U 48 All-Flash NVMe Simply Double Storage Server and provide accelerated caching across the complete line of NVMe supported scale out storage servers including the new 4U 45-drive system with NVMe Cache drives.

“Being first-to-market with the latest in computing technology continues to be our corporate strength, the addition of Intel Optane memory technology gives our top tier customers a new memory deployment strategy that provides better write performance and latency than existing NVMe NAND SSD solutions including more than 30 drive writes per day,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “In addition this new memory is slated to consume 30% lower max-power than SSD NAND memory, supporting our customer’s green computing priorities.”

“Supermicro’s system readiness for the new Optane memory technology will provide fast storage and cache for MySQL and HCI applications,” said Bill Lesczinske, VP, non-volatile memory solutions group, Intel Corp. “With 77x better read latency in the presence of a high write workload and as a memory replacement with Intel Memory Drive Technology – software will make the Optane SSD look like DRAM transparently to the OS, providing greater in-memory compute performance to Supermicro systems.“

1 Comparisons based on internal Supermicro testing and published Intel product specs.