science and scientific computing applications
KEY POINTS
●ASUS announces NVIDIA A100-powered servers one month after the launch of
the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU
●ASUS ESC4000A-E10 is a NVIDIA A100-powered server that supports PCIe
Gen 4, OCP 3.0 and up to four dual-slot or eight single-slot GPUs
●ASUS ESC4000A-E10 is targeted for AI, HPC, virtualization and VDI applications
for data centers and enterprises
and workstations, today announced ESC4000A-E10, a new GPU server powered by the NVIDIA A100
PCIe® GPU and featuring PCIe 4.0 expansion and OCP 3.0 networking. With faster compute and GPU
performance, ESC4000A-E10 is designed to accelerate and optimize data centers for high utilization,
while providing a low total cost of ownership. ASUS continues building a strong partnership with NVIDIA
to deliver unprecedented acceleration and flexibility to power the world’s highest-performing elastic data
centers for AI, data analytics and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
ASUS ESC4000A-E10 is a 2U GPU server powered by AMD EPYC™ 7002 series single-socket
processors, which deliver up to 2X the performance and 4X the floating-point capability compared to the
previous 7001 generation. Designed for AI, HPC and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) applications in
data center or enterprise environments requiring powerful CPU cores, multiple GPU support and faster
transmission speeds, ESC4000A-E10 delivers GPU-optimized performance with support for up to four
high-performance double-slot or eight single-slot GPUs, including the latest NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPUs
built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, Tesla T4 and Quadro® GPUs. This performance also provides
benefits for virtualization by consolidating GPU resources into a shared pool, enabling users to utilize
resources in more efficient ways.
ASUS ESC4000A-E10 also features up to 11 PCIe 4.0 slots for compute, graphics, storage and
networking expansion. PCIe 4.0 provides transfer speeds of up to 16 GT/s — double the bandwidth of
PCIe 3.0 — and delivers lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility.
For networking, ESC4000A–E10 supports an OCP 3.0 network interface card, which supports up to 200
Gigabit Ethernet to meet the demands of high–bandwidth applications. With a flexible chassis design,
ESC4000A–E10 accommodates up to eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard drives, four of which
can be configured as NVMe SSDs.
NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU
The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU delivers unprecedented acceleration and flexibility to power the
world’s highest-performing elastic data centers for AI, data analytics and HPC applications. As the engine
of the NVIDIA data center platform, the A100 GPU provides up to 20X higher performance than V100
GPUs and can efficiently scale up to thousands of GPUs or be partitioned into seven isolated GPU
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instances with new multi-Instance GPU (MIG) capability to accelerate workloads of all sizes.
The NVIDIA A100 GPU features third-generation Tensor Core technology that supports a broad range of
math precisions providing a unified workload accelerator for data analytics, AI training, AI inference, and
HPC. Accelerating both scale-up and scale-out workloads on one platform enables elastic data centers
that can dynamically adjust to shifting application workload demands. This simultaneously boosts
throughput and drives down the cost of data centers.
Combined with the NVIDIA software stack, the A100 GPU accelerates all major deep learning and data
analytics frameworks and over 700 HPC applications. NVIDIA NGC, a hub for GPU-optimized software
containers for AI and HPC, simplifies application deployments so researchers and developers can focus
on building their solutions. ASUS will also offer A100-powered NGC-Ready systems, which are built to
run deep–learning and machine–learning workloads and are tested for functionality and performance of
the AI stack.
ASUS continues growing the hardware and software integration solutions
As one of the key OEM partners of the NVIDIA partner network (NPN), ASUS works closely with NVIDIA
to help customers optimize their systems by designing, developing and manufacturing hardware systems
using NVIDIA GPUs. Many ASUS servers are NVIDIA NGC-ready systems that are validated for
performance and functionality of NGC containers on bare-metal and virtual servers. ASUS will continue to
develop more solutions with NVIDIA to enable customers meet their requirements easily with less time
spent on hardware and software selection.
ASUS servers deliver top performance and power efficiency, making them an excellent choice for data
center solutions. ASUS 2P and 1P servers continue to achieve top-ranking performance with over 700
world records based on the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark on SPEC.org. ASUS also offers servers
designed specifically for power efficiency with ASUS exclusive power-saving tuning technology, and these
servers have achieved the No. 1 ranking on the SPEC Power benchmark on both Windows and Linux.
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SPECIFICATIONS
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Processor
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AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processor family (up to TDP
280W)
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Memory
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Total slots
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8 (8-channel per CPU, 8 DIMM per CPU)
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Capacity
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Up to 2TB
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Memory type
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DDR4 3200 RDIMM
*Refer to ASUS server AVL for the latest update
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Memory size
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256GB, 128GB, 64GB, 32GB, 16GB
*Please refer to www.asus.com for latest memory AVL update
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Expansion slots
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Total
PCI/PCI-X/PCIE/PIK
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11
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Slot Type
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Full-length/Full height:
4* PCI-E 4.0 x16 link for double-deck GPU/ Full length cards
or 8*PCI-E 4.0 at x16 link with PLX SKU Board for
single-deck GPU Cards
Half-length/Low-profile:
2 * PCI-E 4.0 x16 for butterfly riser card
1 * PCI-E 4.0 x8 for internal HBA/RAID card or OCP3.0 slot
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Storage bays
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8 x 2.5″ or 3.5″ Hot-swap Storage Device Bays
(up to 4 x NVMe Supported)
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Networking
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LAN
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2 x 1Gb/s LAN ports (Intel® I350-AM2)
1 x dedicated management port
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Graphics
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VGA
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AST2500 64MB
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Security
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TPM2.0
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Front I/O ports
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4 x USB 3.0 ports
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Rear I/O ports
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2 x USB 3.0 ports
2 x Gigabit LAN ports (RJ45)
1 x Management port (RJ45)
1 x VGA port
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