Supermicro is best known to most for server hardware. But over the last few years, the company has dipped its toes in the gaming realm. We’ve seen X99 and X299, as well as Z170 through Z390-based motherboards from the company, culminating with the C9Z490-PGW we have for review today.

The HPC world, particularly in the U.S. is waiting for the next series of transitions to far larger machines with exascale capabilities. By this time next year, the bi-annual ranking of the top 500 most powerful systems will be refreshed at the top as Frontier, El Capitan, Aurora and other DoE supers come online.

A new high performance computing (HPC) cluster has been installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California.

Not every HPC or analytics workload – meaning an algorithmic solver and the data that it chews on – fits nicely in a 128 GB or 256 GB or even a 512 GB memory space, and sometimes the dataset is quite large and runs best with a larger memory space rather than carving it up into smaller pieces and distributing across nodes with the same amount of raw compute.

Back in July, we had the opportunity to have the Supermicro C9 Z490-PGW in the lab to put together an overclocking guide where we were able to successfully push our Intel® Core i9-10900K upwards of 5.2GHz all core at 1.35v without issue.

Supermicro's C9X299-PG300 is the epitome of basic high-end. It's simple, sleek, and strong where it counts.

Supermicro Computer has announced two new systems designed for artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning applications that fully leverage the third-generation NVIDIA HGX technology with the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs as well as full support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPUs across the company’s broad portfolio of 1U, 2U, 4U and 10U GPU servers.

Supermicro Computer continues to deliver market-leading data centre server capabilities to global 5G, telecom, and accelerated workloads at the edge. The 2U Ultra-E short-depth is the latest update to Supermicro’s growing NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) Level 3-certified server line-up.