Company: Inspur Information
Nomination Submitted by: Interprose
Company Description: Inspur Information, a leading provider of data center infrastructure, cloud computing, and AI solutions, is the world’s 2nd largest server manufacturer. Through engineering and innovation, Inspur Information delivers cutting-edge computing hardware design and extensive product offerings to address important technology sectors such as open computing, cloud data center, AI, and deep learning.
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Business Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Business Technology Solution - Other
 Nomination Title: Inspur NF5488A5 Supercomputing AI Server
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Written answers to the questions
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Written responses with links to supporting materials
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
Inspur NF5488A5 was released on August 2020
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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The Inspur NF5488A5 is an AI server powered by eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs fully interconnected with the 3rd generation NVLink plus two of the latest AMD CPUs supporting PCIe4.0. It provides users with ultimate AI performance and ultra-high-speed bandwidth while offering powerful computing support for various AI scenarios such as intelligent customer service, financial analysis, smart city, and intelligent language processing.
The Inspur NF5488A5 ranks first in single sever performance in MLPerf 0.7, it supports 8 fully interconnected NVLink 3.0 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, and 2 AMD Rome processors enabling PCIe4.0 in a 4U space, NF5488A5 delivers outstanding AI performance of 5 petaFLOPS and ultra-high data throughput, making it ideal choice for a series of AI scenarios such as intelligent image, video and voice processing, financial analysis and virtual assistant. The design of the Inspur NF5488A5 reduces operation and maintenance costs and facilitates ease of installation.
Customer Application:
The Inspur-powered GPU cluster “Alex” is the core component of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg through its Erlangen National Center for High-Performance Computing (NHR@FAU) HPC Infrastructure to handle the rapidly growing computing resource demands for ML and MD in scientific research. Alex is among the TOP500 and Green500 of the most powerful and energy efficient HPC systems in the world. It is composed of 32 NF5488A5 and 38 NF5468A5 Inspur GPU servers, providing a total of 256 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 304 NVIDIA A40 Tensor Core GPUs for maximum GPU computing performance. In addition to the massive GPU resources available, there are 140 AMD EPYC 7713 CPUs, and the total memory capacity is almost 50TB. The cluster is interconnected through a high-speed HDR InfiniBand network, resulting in top-level general-purpose computing with excellent MD and AI performance that runs a multitude of research-specific software with various hardware, while supporting massive ML datasets, molecular dynamics simulations, and improving training efficiency.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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NF5488A5 is one of the most popular AI servers worldwide. In MLPerf Training v1.0, NF5488A5 led the top position in 11 leading benchmarks tests in the closed division. Compared to the best performance of the BERT model in 2020, NF5488A5 decreased training time to 21.15 minutes in 2021, raising the performance up to 56.85%. In addition, NF5488A5 ranked No.1 on DLRM model in MLPerf inference v1.1, with 7.3% higher performance than DGX A100. MLPerf is an independent benchmark suite that measures how fast systems can train models to a target quality metric. Each benchmark is defined by a Dataset and Quality Target.
Both Gartner and IDC show that Inspur Information has risen from third to second place in the global ranking of server shipments and first in server revenue in China. Between Q4 of 2021 and Q1 of 2022, Inspur Information's sales of servers increased year-over-year, with a growth rate of over 15%, more than twice the average growth rate in the industry. Inspur information also remains No.1 worldwide for AI server market share based on revenue.
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The following links include information, press releases and videos that demonstrate Inspur Information’s market leadership.
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