Supermicro Unveils Petascale Storage Server with NVIDIA Grace CPU

Mar 20, 2025
Supermicro has introduced a new petascale all-flash storage server featuring the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, designed for high-performance AI storage workloads.

Supermicro has introduced a new petascale all-flash storage server featuring the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, designed for high-performance software-defined AI storage workloads, announced in a press release. This innovative system combines Supermicro's petascale architecture with NVIDIA's power-efficient CPU to deliver a high-density storage solution for AI and ML training, analytics, and enterprise storage tasks.

The server utilizes 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores and supports 16 hot-swap EDSFF PCIe Gen5 E3.S NVMe drives, offering up to 983TB of raw capacity. A rack containing 40 systems can provide 39.3PB of raw storage capacity. This collaboration with NVIDIA and WEKA aims to create power-efficient, high-performance storage systems for AI factories.

Rob Davis, Vice President of Storage Networking Technology at Nvidia, highlighted the server's ability to accelerate networking protocols like GPUDirect Storage while using less power than comparable x86 servers. The system's design also supports two NVIDIA BlueField-3 or ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, enhancing the performance of the WEKA Data Platform's zero-copy architecture.

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