Supermicro Exhibits Storage Solutions for Broadcast Media

Super Micro Computer, Inc. was exhibiting its enterprise-class, X9 solutions incorporating the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600/1600 technology and for the first time, NVIDIA Maximus technology to the broadcast media industry at the NAB Show .

Supermicro’s SuperWorkstations take center stage demoing accelerated applications for digital video/film, 3D/CGI, motion graphics and VFX production. SuperServers optimized for real-time video transcoding and streaming will also be on display.

To serve demands for digital media content, the company highlighted its SuperStorage products offering capacity, scalable and portable solutions.

And for mobile media production environments it showed solutions from its embedded appliance product line.

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"With the rapid evolution of digital broadcasting, the industry needs cutting edge computing and storage solutions that continuously raise performance limits," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Supermicro is the ideal solution provider with a vast array of products offering the latest technologies with the greatest performance, efficiency, flexibility and reliability in the industry. Combining nearly two decades of experience serving global scale Enterprise, Data Center, HPC and Cloud Computing businesses with our first-to-market innovations, Supermicro provides customers time-to-market performance advantages, enabling them to accelerate the growth of their business."

3D, CGI, animation and VFX studios looking to drive their bottom line with increased productivity appreciate the real-time design, visualization and accelerated rendering of NVIDIA Maximus powered 7047GR-TRF. This HPC SuperWorkstation supports up to four NVIDIA Tesla C2075 GPUs for compute functions such as simulation and rendering, plus an NVIDIA Quadro 2000 GPU for simultaneous design and visualization.

Supermicro showed off its supercomputing muscle with live demos of interactive photorealistic ray-tracing and accelerated scene compositing in Autodesk 3ds Max. For graphic design and videography, Supermicro showcased Adobe Creative Suite applications on its 5037A-I accelerated with NVIDIA GPU technology. The 7037A-i demoed real-time color correction with Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve and a 7047A-73 showcased real-time full resolution video texturing in Cinnafilm Dark Energy.

Additional exhibits included Supermicro’s SimCluster powered by NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPUs, providing 10-42 TFLOPSs of supercomputing power to accelerate 3D animation rendering and ray tracing, visual effects processing and video transcoding for Content Delivery Network (CDN) services.

SuperStorage solutions included Double-Sided Storage chassis 6047R-E1R36N and 847E16-RJBOD1 providing HDD capacity for dynamic workflow environments.

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SuperStorage combined with Supermicro’s 14U MiniRack and the 24 port SSE-X24S 10GbE top-of-rack switch provide studios with fast access to over 300TB of raw capacity in a deskside enclosure.

Supermicro exhibited embedded solutions including the 5017C-MTF, a low-power compact computing appliance suitable for mobile production environments and the 4U rackmount 6047R-TXRF, an I/O expansion server with 11x PCIe slots for multi-display, digital signage or IPTV broadcast video streaming applications.