NF5688G7_AI Servers_meta brain® Artificial Intelligence Servers

Introduction

NF5688G7, the 6U hyperscale training platform equipped with dual 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors or AMD EPYC^TM 9004 Series Processors and 8x NVIDIA latest GPUs, features industry-leading performance, ultimate I/O expansion, and ultrahigh energy efficiency. The precisely optimized system architecture with 4x CPU to GPU bandwidth, up to 4.0Tbps networking bandwidth, 8TB system memory, and 300TB massive local storage can fully satisfy the communication and capacity demands of multi-dimensional parallelism training for giant-scale models. 12 PCIe expansions can be flexibly configured with CX7, OCP3.0, and multiple SmartNICs, making it an ideal solution for both on-premises and cloud deployment. It is built to handle the most demanding AI computing tasks like trillion-parameter Transformer model training, massive recommender systems, AIGC, and Metaverse workloads.

Key Features

Unprecedented performance

Powered by 8* NVIDIA latest GPUs in a 6U chassis, TDP up to 700W
Support 2x 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors or AMD EPYC^TM 9004 Series Processors
Industry-leading performance by 3 times enhancement. The Transformer Engine significantly accelerates the training speed of GPT large mode
Optimized energy efficiency

Extremely low air-cooled heat dissipation overhead, less fan, higher power efficiency
54V, 12V separated power supply with N+N redundancy reducing power conversion loss
Direct liquid cooling design with more than 80% cold plate coverage, PUE≤1.15
Leading architecture design

Lightning-fast intra-node connectivity with 4x CPU to GPU bandwidth improvement
Ultra-high scalable inter-node networking with up to 4.0Tbps non-blocking bandwidth
Cluster-level optimized architecture, GPU:Compute Network: Storage Network = 8:8:2
Multi-scenarios adaptation

Full modular design and extremely flexible configurations satisfying both on-premises and cloud deployment
Easily harness large-scale model training, such as GPT-3, MT-NLG, stable diffusion and Alphafold.
Diversified SuperPod solutions accelerating the most cutting-edge innovation including AIGC, AI4Science and Metaverse.

Technical Specifications

Item	NF5688-M7-A0-R0-00
Height	6U
GPU	NVIDIA HGX Hopper 8-GPU, TDP up to 700W per GPU
Processor	2*4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, TDP 350W
Memory	32 * DDR5 DIMMs, up to 5600MT/s
Storage	24 * 2.5’ SSD, up to 16 * NVMe U.2
M.2	2* Onboard NVMe/SATA M.2 (optional)
PCIe Slot	Support 10 * PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. One PCIe Gen5 x16 slot can be replaced with two x16 slots (PCIe Gen5 x8 rate). Optional support Bluefield-3, CX7, and various SmartNICs
RAID	Optional support RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6/60, etc., support Cache super capacitor protection
Front I/O	1USB 3.0, 1USB 2.0, 1*VGA
Rear I/O	2USB 3.0, 1RJ45, 1* MicroUSB, 1* VGA
OCP	Optional support 1*OCP 3.0, support NCSI
Management	DC-SCM BMC management module with Aspeed 2600
TPM	TPM 2.0
Fan	6 hot-swap fans with N+1 redundancy
Power	2* 12V 3200W and 6* 54V 2700W, Platinum/Titanium PSU with N+N redundancy
Size (WHD)	447mm263mm860mm
Weight	Net weight 92kg（Gross weight 107kg）
Environmental Parameters	Working temperature：10℃~35℃; Storage temperature：-40℃~70℃
	Working humidity：10%~80% R.H.；Storage humidity：10%~93% R.H.

Relevant Information

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