Amax: DL-E48A Reconfigurable Single/Dual Root High-Density GPU Platform

Amax Information Technologies, Inc. announces the DL-E48A, a reconfigurable single/dual root high-density GPU platform designed for AI training and inference.

The DL-E48A is a performance, high-density 8x GPU server platform with remote-configurable single and dual PCIe root complex architectures, enabling ease of hardware optimization for AI and DL training, inference, HPC compute, rendering and virtualization.

The platform supports the latest generation of NVIDIA Tesla Volta V100 32GB HBM2 GPU, Mellanox EDR IB and Intel Omnipath fabric to process largest datasets for the most demanding AI and DL applications. Utilizing Intel Corp.‘s Scalable Processor architecture, the system provides a 56% increase in memory bandwidth and a 54% bandwidth increase for communication between CPUs (UPI) compared to platforms featuring the previous Intel processor generation. NVME storage options are available with the DL-E48A, removing storage bottlenecks for fast data performance.

The DL-E48A’s software-configurable PCIe architecture allows IT organizations to remotely change the PCIe hardware topology between single and dual root complex architectures in order to optimize machine and cluster performance for specific workloads. Single root complex architectures are for reducing GPU to GPU memory copy latency for improved performance of GPU-intensive DL workloads. Dual root complex architectures offer performance for CPU-intensive applications and parallel computing tasks. The DL-E48A combines the benefits of both architectures into a single server to give organizations the versatility using a single platform.

“Many AI organizations in the development phase are faced with deciding whether or when single root or dual root complex best suits their applications,” said Dr. Rene Meyer, VP, technology, Amax. “With the DL-E48A, you have a system capable of both, providing companies the ability to test their applications against both architectures to derive best performance. For organizations running multiple applications, the DL-E48A’s versatility means being able to configure the root complex architecture on demand or even remotely via software, giving them a single platform that can be well-suited for a wide range of applications.“

The DL-E48A is a platform for AI development as well as large to hyperscale deployments, and is available for purchase as server units or designed into rackscale solutions and networked clusters.

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