About Supermicro
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Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI) - designs, manufactures, develops and markets server solutions based on x86 and ARM architectures for Intel, AMD and Ampere Altra & Ampere Altra Max processors.
Its broad product line includes:
- Rack systems 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 5U (complete server and barebone sets)
- Tower,
- Mid-Tower,
- Mini-Tower,
- Mini-Itx,
- Cluster servers (Super Blade, Micro Blade),
- Multi-mode servers (MicroCloud, Twin, FatTwin),
- GPU systems,
- High-performance Workstations (high-end Workstation),
- Storage servers,
- motherboards (one, two, four-processor)
- chassis,
- racks
and server components based on branded products including:
- AC and DC power supplies, single, redundant (N+1),
- network solutions (1Gb, 10Gb, 25Gb, 40Gb, 100Gb network cards, network switches),
- HBA and RAID disk controllers (Hybrid SW RAID and HW RAID) based on Broadcom / LSI / Avago Technologies chipsets,
- NVMe disk controllers and adapters,
- Heat sinks and water cooling.
In addition, server management software (IPMI Utilities, SuperDoctor® 5, SPM, SUM, SCM).
Supermicro's innovative solutions include architecture Twin, FatTwin™, SuperServer®, SuperBlade®, MicroCloud, Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB), Double-Sided Storage®, Battery Backup Power (BBP®), Universal I/O (UIO) WIO, UltraServers - these technologies deliver and ensure high performance, efficiency, packing and reliability.
Supermicro provides a wide range of modular components ideal for building energy-efficient, optimized IT solutions suitable for High Performance Computing (HPC), Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, Embedded Systems, AI, Metaverse and 5G Telco/Edge IT.
The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Supermicro's global operations include:
- Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California
- Distribution center in the Netherlands
- Technology park and logistics center in Taiwan
History
Milestones:
- 1993 October - Establishment by engineer Charles Liang in San Jose, Califiornia.
- 1996 - Expansion of production space in San Jose.
- 1998 - Opening of a distribution center in the Netherlands.
- 2003 - Introducing a 1U server equipped with 1TB of SATA storage.
- 2005 - Introduction of complete server solutions based on the AMD processor.
- 2007 - Introduction of 1U server with Twin technology. Launch of the SuperBlade® blade server production line.
- 2009 - Unveiling the 2U Twin2 server architecture with four dual-processor nodes in hot-plug technology.
- 2011 - Introduction of MicroCloud platform with 8/16 hot-plug nodes in a 3U chassis.
- 2012 - Introduction of the FatTwin™ architecture.
- 2013 - Unveiling a 4U storage server with 72 3.5″ hot-swap drives. Celebration of the company's 20th anniversary, and presentation of the new corporate logo.
- 2014 - Debut of Ultra series servers.
- 2015 - Grand opening of the Green Computing Center in Silicon Valley (California).
- 2016 - Recognized by Fortune magazine as the fastest-growing IT infrastructure company in the world.
- 2017 - MicroBlade™ servers enable the world's most efficient data center.
- 2018 - Third largest server systems provider in the world according to IDC.
- 2020 - Listed in CRN Data Center 50: Hottest Data Center Companies in
- 2021 - Expanded campuses in Silicon Valley and Taiwan add 1 million square feet of production space; now more than 3 million square feet worldwide
- 2022 - Command center with autoconfigurator launched to support cloud and PnP Enterprise Applications.
Technologies
Building Block Solutions®
is a wide range of Barebone servers (chassis + motherboard + possibly expansion cards) and modular components that can be used to create energy-efficient and optimized systems for specific IT solutions. With this methodology, it is possible to design a system suitable for use in data centers, high-performance computing clusters, graphical workstations, as well as standalone server environments.
UIO (Universal I/O) / WIO
Enables maximum and flexible expansion through the use of additional I/O cards, which can be added to the system via a UIO/WIO (riser card) module attached to the motherboard. This technology allows you to add an additional 3 expansion cards in a 1U chassis and 7 in the case of a 2U chassis. More than 20 expansion cards are available: SAS/SATA RAID5, 10Gb Ethernet, Infiniband. For example, a 1U server with a UIO/WIO module can support: a SAS/SATA controller with RAID5, 10GbE, Ethernet or Infiniband support. This technology allows you to minimize the number of servers you need to run your business.
Twin
The Twin family includes 1U and 2U servers. A 1U server contains two computing nodes, while a Twin 2U can contain up to four computing units. Each node in the Twin architecture operates independently of the others.
FatTwin™
This is the latest product in the Twin architecture. It allows to fit up to 8 independent nodes in different hardware configurations in a 4U chassis. The versatility of configurations allows to optimize the server for various environments, such as: Data Center, Cloud Computing, HPC, data server or application server.
MicroCloud
It is 24, 12 or 8 nodes integrated in a 3U chassis. Each node operates independently, but common as with Twin technology is power supply. Technology optimized for Cloud Computing, Data Center and virtualization environments.
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