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GPU Accelerated Server Solutions

 

Bespoke servers for every GPU-accelerated workload

The NVIDIA Ampere family of GPU accelerator cards represents the cutting edge in performance for all workloads, offering unprecedented compute density, performance, and flexibility to deliver up to 5 petaFLOPS performance in a single system. The high-end NVIDIA A100 accelerator is available in either standard PCIe or high-density SXM4 formats featuring HBM2 memory, with the other accelerators available as PCIe cards. Any of these Ampere passively cooled GPUs offer the flexibility to be installed in a wide variety of both air and liquid cooled server chassis.

The 3XS Server Philosophy

Specification

3XS GPU-accelerated servers are tailored to the applications you will be running, providing optimal performance, and can be customised with your branding.

Service

We provide a one-stop-shop for all your server needs - offering seamless support during build, after-sales and with our professional services offering.

Satisfaction

We are proud to say a large proportion of our GPU-accelerated server customers come back to us for upgrades and new builds.

GPU Servers versus CPU Servers

The main difference between CPU and GPU architecture is that a CPU is designed to handle a wide-range of tasks quickly, but is limited in the number of tasks that can be run in parallel. A GPU is designed to quickly render high-resolution images and video concurrently, performing multiple parallel operations, so are ideally suited for non-graphical tasks such as scientific computation. Incorporating thousands of processor cores running simultaneously, GPUs enable massive parallelism where each core is focused on making efficient calculations.

The addition of GPU cards into a server not only revolutionises its performance when it comes to parallel computing tasks such as HPC, supercomputing or AI - but GPU technology also allows for far denser server deployments, saving power and cooling costs. A single GPU-accelerated server can do the parallel workload of many CPU servers.

NVIDIA GPU Accelerators

The NVIDIA datacentre family of GPU accelerator cards represents the cutting edge in performance for all AI workloads, offering unprecedented compute density, performance and flexibility. The high-end NVIDIA H100 and A100 accelerators are available in either standard PCIe or high-density SXM formats featuring HBM2 memory, with the mid-range A30 and L40 accelerators and A16 for VDI projects available as PCIe cards. Any of these NVIDIA datacentre GPUs offer the flexibility to be installed in a wide variety of both air and liquid cooled server chassis.

NVIDIA HGX Server NVIDIA EGX Server

8x H100 SXM5

4x H100 SXM5

8x A100 SXM4

4x A100 SXM4

H100 PCIe 5

A100 PCIe 4

L40/L40S PCIe 4

A40 PCIe 4

A30 PCIe 4

A16 PCIe 4

AI Training

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AI Inference

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The Transformer Engine uses a combination of software and specially designed hardware to accelerate transformer model training and inferencing, such as those commonly used in language models such as BERT and GPT-3. The Transformer Engine intelligently manages and dynamically switches between FP8 and FP16 calculations, automatically handling re-casting and scaling between the two levels of precision, speeding up large language models compared to the previous generation Ampere architecture.

The H100 Tensor Core GPUs in the DGX H100 feature fourth-generation NVLink which provides 900GB/s bidirectional bandwidth between GPUs, over 7x the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0.

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Previously generation GPU-accelerators did not support confidential computing, with data only being encrypted when at rest in storage or in transit across the LAN. Hopper is the first GPU architecture to include support for confidential computing, securing data from unauthorised access as it passes through the DGX H100. NVIDIA confidential computing provides hardware-based isolation of multiple instances sharing a H100 GPU using MIG, single-user H100 GPUs and between multiple H100 GPUs.

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Server platforms

AMD EPYC CPUs

The AMD EPYC series of processors set the new standard for the modern datacentre. Featuring leadership architecture, performance, and security, AMD EPYC processors help customers turbocharge application performance, transform datacentre operations and help secure critical data.

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Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs

The Intel Xeon Scalable Platform processor series is designed to optimise interconnectivity with a focus on speed, without compromising data security. With built-in AI acceleration, advanced security technologies, and exceptional multi-socket processing performance, these processors are built for mission-critical, real-time analytics, ML, AI and cloud workloads.

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Solid State Storage

Intel 3D NAND and Optane SSD server-grade technologies offer a complete range of form factor and connectivity options to suit every type of server deployment, including SATA, M.2 and U.2. The range caters for all use cases and addresses any budget or performance requirement.

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High Bandwidth, Low Latency Connectivity

Because of our experience providing GPU-accelerated server solutions, our team of system architects also recognise that connectivity within the server is key to guarantee the optimum performance and maximum utilisation of the GPUs. Low latency, high-bandwidth technologies such as NVIDIA Networking (formerly Mellanox) Ethernet and Infiniband NICs offer the ability to offload work from the CPU to reduce latency to connected external storage devices. And with speeds of up to 400Gb/s, these network cards can satisfy the bandwidth demands of any virtualised environment.

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Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 is the latest operating system (OS) for servers from Microsoft. To cover small office servers right up to datacentre deployments, it is available in three versions - Windows Server 2022 Essentials, Windows Server 2022 Standard and Windows Server 2022 Datacenter. With up to 25 users or 50 devices, the Essentials edition is the perfect server OS for small businesses and rather than a license-based model, Essentials is just a single purchase. The Standard edition is aimed at users who only need a few Windows Server virtual machines. In addition to installation on the physical hardware, two virtual machines running Windows Server are also possible with the server license. Finally with the Datacenter edition, users have the greatest possible flexibility in server deployment and can realise large, rapidly changing workloads. The number of VMs is unlimited and software-defined storage can be implemented using Storage Spaces Direct.

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Professional Services

Although all our 3XS servers come as standard with a comprehensive 3-year (1st year onsite) warranty, this can be extended to provide extra cover if required. Additional services can also be provided such as installation, remote monitoring capabilities or data science consultancy.

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Our intuitive online configurators provide complete peace of mind when building your GPU server alternatively speak directly to one of our friendly system architects.

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