GIGABYTE: Helping Enterprises Gain the HPC Upper Hand

High-Performance Computing (HPC) has gone from fringe to mainstream—finding applications in just about every industry. The increasing need for high-efficiency computing, data storage, and continued IT diversification and expansion, alongside advances in AI, cloud, virtualization, has fueled the HPC market’s growth. However, companies often struggle with HPC improvisation and in finding efficient, stable products with minimal heat dissipation at a nominal price range. Addressing these needs is Taiwan-based GIGABYTE Technology. As an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, the company maintains its position as one of the top vendors in the worldwide HPC market. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE offers a comprehensive product lineup that caters to the requirements of business IT, consumer applications, gaming, and cloud systems, to name a few. The company is also a global leader in the PC industry who began its journey by offering motherboards and graphics cards. Over the years, GIGABYTE has expanded its product portfolio to include PC components and accessories, broadband network devices and storage products, wireless communication products, PC peripherals, and mini-PCs, to name a few. “In the last ten years, we have established ourselves as a leader in the HPC field, successfully supporting GPUs and creating cost-effective heterogeneous computing solutions. We have close ties to major vendors in the market, including NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, Arm, and more,” states Etay Lee, GM at GIGABYTE. “We co-develop our systems for them, which enables us to launch products quickly in comparison to our competitors.”

Lee explains that the boom in HPC has resulted in the rapid emergence of new server processing architectures for executing highly complex, computationally intensive HPC applications reliably, quickly, and efficiently, particularly in the domains of AI and rendering. This has invariably spiked the demand for GPU-based, parallel processing of data and the requirement of improved GPU performance in HPC clusters. To this end, the company offers its H-Series high-density servers and G-Series GPU servers, designed especially for HPC applications. They can seamlessly combine large computing power into a 1U, 2U, or 4U server chassis. In addition, the servers can be linked into a cluster via interconnects such as Infiniband, Ethernet, or Omni- Path. GIGABYTE has also built an Immersion Cooling Proof of Concept (POC) Unit to address heat dissipation challenges around HPC servers. A two-phase immersion cooling system is fully compatible with 2U form factors and can be modified on request to suit 1U or 4U models. Many servers in GIGABYTE’s GPU Server product line are compatible with the POC unit. This includes G291-281, a scalable, high-density model designed for high performance and parallel computing and can house an unrivalled eight double-slot GPUs or co-processor cards within a 2U chassis and G481-HA0, a 4U dual root server that supports 5G network infrastructure.

“We integrate our CPU and GPU products such that we can get the maximum performance out of each and we offer many cooling solutions such as air cooling, immersion cooling and liquid cooling,” explains Lee. “We are proficient in producing systems that have a priority for GPU cards. We have a very versatile lineup of quality servers for all different kinds of cards alongside the capability of excellent cooling,” GIGABYTE is therefore perfectly poised to address the needs of the expanding, increasingly heterogeneous global market through an astute vision and strategy, a comprehensive portfolio of products and an expert team.