One Stop Systems 4U Pro PCIe Gen 4 Expansion Platform for AI Edge Computing

One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS) has expanded its PCIe Gen 4 product line with the introduction of the 4U Pro, a Gen 4 professional expansion platform that delivers 2x the performance of its OSS Gen 3 solutions.

The 4U Pro offers an enhanced and configurable feature set compared to the OSS Gen 4 4UV product launched earlier this year. At 18.5″ deep, the 4U Pro Gen 4 capabilities enables quick time-to-market for customers with harsh and demanding edge computing applications.

It provides a 1Tb/s of low-latency PCIe externally-cabled interconnect between the latest performance servers and AI accelerators, which is for powering large-scale AI data acquisition, training, and inference applications at the edge.

In addition to 4xGen 4 x16 host connections, it features multiple slot configurations, including 8×16 slots that can support up to 8 Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs that deliver acceleration and flexibility for AI, data analytics and HPC.

The 4U Pro can also be configured with 16×8 slots. They can be populated with 16 of Liqid, Inc.’s LQD4500 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe drives that can store more than 500TB of datasets at fast speeds, making the configuration for the most demanding storage challenges.

LQD4500 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe drive

The 4U Pro also supports and enables the performance edge computing ecosystem that includes many other PCIe Gen 4 CPUs, NICs, host adapters and FPGAs – all with the firm’ Gen 4 interoperability. This often requires supporting a mix of x8 and x16 slots, which is also available on the 4U Pro. This level of flexibility, combined with the company’s host adapters, riser cards and cables, provides a solid Gen 4 offering.

Initial customer interest includes industry leaders in instrumentation, measurement, factory automation, automotive, military, and other edge markets.

The 4U Pro sets the standard for performance AI workflows at the edge with other features that include rugged frame-in-frame design, shock isolation, remote monitoring and control, AC or DC power supplies, OSS management software, and the ability to scale servers to a density of 64 GPUs, FPGAs or NVMe drives using multiple systems.

The 4U Pro is compatible with the company’ Ion Accelerator SAN and NAS storage applications that deliver low latency, as well as work with a wide suite of AI applications and frameworks available through the Nvidia GPU Cloud (NGC) ready program. This enables a fast time-to-deployment with pre-trained AI models and frameworks such as Tensorflow and PyTorch, which are critical to edge designs.

Liqid, Inc. company’s partner in delivering composable infrastructure solutions, recently announced a contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide the world’s largest composable high-performance computer to the US Army. The project combines the OSS 4U Pro with Nvidia A100 and LQD4500 FHFL NVMe add-in cards to achieve unparalleled compute and 56GB/s storage throughput, which is more than double the performance from Liqid’s previous gen product.

“OSS’ leadership in PCIe expansion technology allowed us to scale GPUs and NVMe storage in record time, enabling us to win this US Army data center project,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder, Liqid. “The flexibility, features, compatibility and pure speed of the 4U Pro unleashed the maximum capability of our software-defined composable infrastructure solution featuring NVIDIA A100 GPUs and Liqid ‘Honey Badger’ NVMe drives.“

David Raun, president and CEO, OSS, commented: “The 4U Pro is an excellent addition to the OSS standard product line, offering new features, enhancements and capabilities for key applications that require a rugged platform on the edge which is backed by our trusted Gen 4 interoperability. The deployment to the US Army with a valuable partner like Liqid, which utilizes the wide range of these features, is an ideal application that showcases the capabilities and benefits of our PCIe expansion technology.“

OSS 4U Pro expansion platform is available to order from the company’s channel partners worldwide. It is also available directly from the firm.

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