ASRock Rack, the ASRock subsidiary that offers servers, workstations and other data center hardware, has introduced a new space-saving solution to effectively deploy AI in edge environments.
Its MECAI-GH200 is claimed to be the world's smallest server housing Nvidia's new Grace Hopper GH200 superchip. The significant, if little-noticed, launch took place at MWC 2024.
The MECAI-GH200 measures just 450 x 445 x 87mm, so it's small enough to fit under a desk, but it's no slouch when it comes to performance. Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper superchip combines the NVIDIA Grace CPU and Hopper AI GPU architectures with an NVLink interconnect between them, and it's super fast, as recent tests show.
Meeting the demand for generative AI
Announcing the 2U Short Depth MGX Server, Hunter Chen, Vice President of ASRock Rack, said: “We aim to bring the benefits of AI everywhere. To achieve this goal, we are committed to offering the most advanced server hardware solutions. reliable in various form factors for different scenarios.”
Ivan Goldwasser, director of data center CPUs at NVIDIA, praised ASRock Rack's efforts to meet the growing demand for generative AI. He said: “By leveraging this innovative platform with integrated memory technology, ASRock Rack is equipped to offer an impressive line of servers with leading performance and memory bandwidth to suit a variety of applications. This aligns with our mission to offer uncompromising performance.”
ASRock Rack also showed off its latest server motherboards and barebones for Intel, AMD and Ampere processors at MWC. One of the highlights was the SIENAD8UD-2L2Q server board, which supports AMD EPYC 8004 series processors and comes equipped with two 25Gb SFP28 ports.
There's no word yet on pricing or availability for the MECAI-GH200, but it should be available for purchase some time this summer.
