ASUS Announces New XA GB721-E2 for AI Data Centers
After an Announcement for the New XA GB721-E2 Headed Toward the AI Data Centers for Tomorrow ASUS has now set a stage for the new XA GB721-E2 system, a rack-scale solution based on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 platform. It is designed for heavy-duty applications, including large-scale AI model training, high-throughput inference, or advanced High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. It incorporates high-performance components with liquid cooling along with rapid deployment services.
Highlight Features of the XA GB721-E2
- High-Performance Computing: 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs and 72 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs integrated to run trillion-parameter model performance.
- Efficient Cooling and Design: An NVIDIA MGX compliant rack of 48U in height with an integrated liquid-cooling system and modular architecture.
- Rapid Deployment: Full-rack deployment can take as little as 30 minutes at the ASUS Infrastructure Deployment Center (AIDC).
- Full Support: ASUS Professional Services offer complete assistance through the ecosystem's full lifecycle from initial design to long-term maintenance.
Rack-Sized Performance with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
The centerpiece of the ASUS solution is the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 system that unites the two worlds of Grace CPUs and Blackwell Ultra GPUs under a single NVIDIA NVLink domain. Such an architecture ensures ultra-low-latency and high-bandwidth communication between GPUs which is essentially the lifeblood for the trillion-parameter AI model processing. Furthermore, the system can leverage NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or Spectrum-X Ethernet platforms for throughput and cluster-scale expansion options to fulfill the enterprise AI factory's requirements.
Integrated Infrastructure and Cooling
Encouragingly, power and thermal management for this high-density compute solution are all encompassed within the design of the XA GB721-E2. This 48U rack accommodates a total of nine NVIDIA NVLink switch trays and 18 compute trays, all following a manifold liquid-cooling design responsible for ensuring predictable performance and easy serviceability. With this complementing ASUS's offer of flexible storage solutions ranging from all-flash hot-tier storage for AI/HPC to hybrid systems for data management and backup, to provide an overall balanced and optimized infrastructure.
Streamlined Deployment via AIDC
XA-GB721-E2 is part of the ASUS AI POD ecosystem using ASUS Control Center (ACC) and ASUS Infrastructure Deployment Center (AIDC) for a turnkey deployment and management solution. These tools offer for zero-touch onboarding and centralized orchestration, giving a substantial kick to the roll-out. The other side of this automation is taking the client very quickly from installation to production-scale computing.
ASUS Professional Services
ASUS understands that deploying large-scale infrastructure is very challenging, including validation, integration, and optimization. To confront this challenge, ASUS offers Professional Services that cover the entire life cycle. These services include assisting the design of efficient liquid-cooling systems, configuring reliable network topologies, and maintaining storage pipelines, thereby guaranteeing customers exact support for building scalable and reliable computing environments.
