Supermicro has introduced the ARS-121L-NE316R server in a 1U form factor, which can be used to create petabyte-capacity data storage systems. The new product is based on the NVIDIA Grace superchip with 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores and 960 GB of LPDDR5x memory.
The device is equipped with 16 front bays for E3.S 1T NVMe drives. With a 61.44 TB SSD, the total capacity can reach 983 TB. At the same time, up to 40 servers can be installed in a single rack, which will provide 39.3 PB of raw capacity.
The new product has two internal mounting places for M.2 NVMe SSD and two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for FHHL cards. There is a 1GbE (RJ45) network management port, a USB 3.0 Type-A port and a mini-DP connector. The server dimensions are 772.15 × 438.4 × 43.6 mm, weight is 19.8 kg without installed drives.
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Power is provided by two 1600 W units with 80 Plus Titanium certification. An air cooling system with eight removable 40 mm fans is used. The operating temperature range is from +10 to +35 °C.
If necessary, the server can be equipped with two NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs or two ConnectX-8 adapters. The system is suitable for supporting workloads with intensive data exchange, such as AI inference, analytics, etc. It is noted that Supermicro closely collaborated with NVIDIA and WEKA (a developer of data storage platforms) when creating the new product.