The Foundational Building Block for Enterprise AI Factories
NVIDIA Blackwell HGX™ B200 8-GPU AI Server
Equipped with NVIDIA Blackwell HGX™ B200 8-GPU and powered by dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon® Scalable processors, ASUS ESC-NB8-E11 features direct GPU-to-GPU interconnect via NVIDIA NVLink™ with 1,800GB/s bandwidth for optimized scaling. It employs a dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology, supporting up to eight NICs for maximum throughput in compute-intensive workloads. Designed as a foundational building block for enterprise AI factories, ESC-NB8-E11 accelerates computing, networking, storage, and software integration — enabling faster, more reliable AI factory deployments with reduced risk and improved operational efficiency.
Key Platform Highlights
- Equipped with NVIDIA Blackwell HGX B200 8-GPU and fueled by dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, supporting 350W TDP.
- Direct GPU-to-GPU interconnect via NVIDIA NVLink™, offering 1,800GB/s bandwidth for optimized scaling.
- Dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology, supporting up to eight NICs for maximum throughput in compute-intensive workloads.
- Modular design with reduced cable usage: Shorten assembly time and improve thermal optimization
- Advanced NVIDIA technologies, including full integration of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField®-3 DPUs, NVIDIA NVLink, NVSwitch, and networking
- High level of power efficiency, with 5+1 80 PLUS® Titanium power supplies
- Optimized thermal design with air-cooled solution, and featuring dedicated CPU and GPU airflow tunnels for efficient heat dissipation
- Designed for enterprise IT, it recommends accelerated computing, networking, storage, and software to help deliver faster time-to-value AI factory deployments while mitigating deployment risks.
Propelling the Data Center Into a New Era of Accelerated Computing
NVIDIA Blackwell HGX™ B200
Engineered for the most demanding AI, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, NVIDIA HGX B200 transforms data centers with next-generation accelerated computing and generative AI capabilities. Featuring powerful NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and ultra-fast interconnects, it delivers up to 1.4TB of HBM3E memory for exceptional data throughput, and 1800GB/s of NVLink bandwidth via NVSwitch™ for seamless GPU communication.
In large-scale model workloads such as GPT-MoE-1.8T, the NVIDIA B200 NVL8 delivers a major leap in performance:
Advanced NVIDIA Technologies
The full power of NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs, NVLink, NVSwitch, and networking
ESC NB8-E11 accelerates the development of AI and data science by incorporating fourth generation NVLink and NVSwitch technology, as well as NVIDIA ConnectX-7 SmartNIC. This also empowers GPUDirect® RDMA, storage with NVIDIA Magnum IO™, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise – the software layer of the NVIDIA AI platform.
One-GPU-to-one-NIC Topology
Supports eight NICs and eight GPUs in one system
A dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology allows ESC NB8-E11 to support up to eight NICs, delivering the highest throughput for compute-intensive workloads.
Modular Design with Reduced Cable Usage
Easy troubleshooting and thermal optimization
The modular design greatly reduces the amount of cables used, resulting in a shortened system assembly time and avoiding cable routing, as well as improving thermal optimization by lowering the risk of choked airflow.
Advanced NVIDIA Technologies
The full power of NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs, NVLink, NVSwitch, and networking
ESC NB8-E11 accelerates the development of AI and data science by incorporating fourth generation NVLink and NVSwitch technology, as well as NVIDIA ConnectX-7 SmartNIC. This also empowers GPUDirect® RDMA, storage with NVIDIA Magnum IO™, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise – the software layer of the NVIDIA AI platform.
Optimized Thermal Design
A two-level GPU and CPU sled for thermal efficiency
ESC NB8-E11 features a streamlined design with dedicated CPU and GPU airflow tunnels for efficient heat dissipation. The two-level GPU and CPU sled design enhances thermal efficiency, scalability, and overall performance by allowing heat to be expelled into the surrounding ambient air – resulting in greater energy efficiency and overall system power savings.
5+1 Power Supplies
High level of power efficiency
To reduce operating costs, ESC NB8-E11 provides effective cooling and innovative components. The 80 PLUS® Titanium power supplies come in a redundant 5+1 arrangement to efficiently deliver an abundance of power.
Management
Comprehensive IT infrastructure solutions
Advanced ASUS management tools comprise IT assets management, security and reliability to improve the performance, up-time and real-time monitoring of the servers remotely — highly increasing the efficiency of IT infrastructure.
BMC
Remote server management
ASUS ASMB11-iKVM is the latest server-management solution from ASUS, built upon the ASPEED 2600 chipset running on the latest AMI MegaRAC SP-X. The module provides various interfaces to enable out-of-band server management through WebGUI, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and Redfish® API.
IT infrastructure-management software
Streamline IT operations via a single dashboard
ASUS Control Center (ACC) is remote IT-management software application designed for monitoring hardware and software IT assets and inventory status, and enabling seamless remote BIOS configurations and updates, efficient IT diagnostics and troubleshooting and enhanced security with hotfix updates — allowing easier server management for any IT infrastructure.
Hardware Root-of-Trust Solution
Detect, recover, boot and protect
ASUS servers integrate PFR FPGA as the platform Root-of-Trust solution for firmware resiliency to prevent from hackers from gaining access to infrastructure. ASUS security solutions are fully compliant with the 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800 193 specification.
Trusted Platform Module 2.0
ASUS servers also include support Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys and offer regular firmware update for vulnerabilities.
