Supermicro announces full production of its Building Block Solutions

Supermicro (SMCI) announced full production availability of its end-to-end AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by the NVIDIA (NVDA) Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions with exceptional time to deployment. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems with multiple CPU options. These include superior thermal design supporting traditional air cooling, liquid-to-liquid, or L2L, and liquid-to-air, or L2A, cooling. In addition, a full data center management software suite, rack-level integration, including full network switching and cabling and cluster-level L12 solution validation can be delivered as turn-key offering with global delivery, professional support, and service. Supermicro’s NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU systems utilize next-generation liquid-cooling and air-cooling technology. The newly developed cold plates and the new 250kW coolant distribution unit more than double the cooling capacity of the previous generation in the same 4U form factor. Available in 42U, 48U, or 52U configurations, the rack-scale design with the new vertical coolant distribution manifolds no longer occupy valuable rack units. This enables 8 systems, comprising 64 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a 42U rack, and all the way up to 12 systems with 96 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a 52U rack. The new air-cooled 10U NVIDIA HGX B200 system features a redesigned chassis with expanded thermal headroom to accommodate eight 1000W TDP Blackwell GPUs. Up to 4 of the new 10U air-cooled systems can be installed and fully integrated in a rack, the same density as the previous generation, while providing up to 15x inference and 3x training performance.