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ASUS 7U ESC N8A-E12

7U NVIDIA HGX H100 server with dual AMD EPYC™ 9004 CPUs, built for AI and HPC, featuring 8 GPUs.

24 x DIMM — DDR5 4800/4400 RDIMM / 3DS RDIMM
2 x AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series — High-performance server CPUs
8 x HGX H100 GPUs (80G) — With NVLink NVSwitch interconnect
2 x M.2 Gen5x4 (CPU1) — High-speed storage interface
8 x PCI-E x16 (Gen5 x16 link) HHHL — Expansion slots
2 x PCI-E x16 (Gen5 x16 link) FHHL + 2 x PCI-E x16 (Gen5 x8 link) FHHL — Additional expansion options
4+2 or 3+3 Redundant 3000W — 80 PLUS Titanium Power Supply
10 x 2.5” Hot-Swap Drive Bays — (8 x NVMe, 2 x NVMe/SATA*/SAS*)

ASUS ESC N8A-E12 GPU Server

AMD EPYC™ 9004 series processors

AMD EPYC™ processors enable efficient data centers that maximize operations, while managing energy costs, delivering impressive performance per system and per rack—critical for allowing capacity growth in power-constrained environments.

Key Platform Highlights

Fueled by dual AMD EPYCTM 9004 processors, supporting 400W TDP
Direct GPU-to-GPU interconnect via NVLink delivers 900GB/s bandwidth for efficient scaling
A dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology: Supports up to 8 NICs for the highest throughput during compute-intensive workloads
Modular design with reduced cable usage: Shorten assembly time and improve thermal optimization
Advanced NVIDIA technologies: The full power of NVIDIA GPUs, BlueField-3, NVLink, NVSwitch, and networking
High level of power efficiency: 4+2 or 3+3 80 PLUS Titanium power supplies
Optimized thermal design: Supports direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling solution and features dedicated CPU and GPU airflow tunnels for efficient heat dissipation
Designed for generative AI with optimized server systems, data-center infrastructure, and AI software-development capabilities integrated by ASUS

End-to-End AI Supercomputing Platform

NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU server

This 7U dual-socket server is powered by dual AMD EPYC™ 9004 processors, supporting 400W TDP and eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Designed to accelerate the development of AI and data science, ESC N8A-E12 offers a dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology and supports up to eight NICs for the highest throughput during compute-intensive workloads. To reduce operating costs, the ASUS ESC N8A-E12 is engineered to provide effective cooling and innovative components that deliver thermal efficiency, scalability, and unprecedented performance.

One-GPU-to-1-NIC Topology

Supports 8 NICs and 8 GPUs in one system

A dedicated 1-GPU-to-1-NIC topology that allows the ESC N8A-E12 to support up to 8 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

The ESC N8A-E12 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.

Sustainability

Keep your data center green

Data centers can consume huge amounts of electricity, raising environmental concerns. ASUS servers are designed to optimize both total cost of ownership (TCO) and total cost to the environment (TCE), including thermal design, power efficiency and advanced cooling solutions — reducing the impact of our products on the planet.

4+2 or 3+3 Power Supplies

High level of power efficiency

To reduce operating costs, the ASUS ESC N8A-E12 provides effective cooling and innovative components. The 80 PLUS Titanium power supplies come in a redundant 4+2 or 3+3 arrangement to efficiently deliver an abundance of power.

Comprehensive liquid-cooling solutions

Better data-center power efficiency

As liquid cooling is maturing in the age of supercomputing, ESC N8A-E12 is purpose-built for sustainability. ESC N8A-E12 is ready to support direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling by request for maximum data-center energy efficiency.

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.

Processor / System Bus	2 x Socket (LGA 6096) AMD EPYC™ 9004 series(up to 400W) 4th Generation AMD EPYC Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache technology
Memory	Total Slots: 24 (12 channel per CPU, 12 DIMM per CPU) Capacity: Maximum up to 3TB per CPU socket Memory Type: DDR5 4800/4400 RDIMM/ 3DS RDIMM Memory Size: 96GB, 64GB, 32GB, 16GB RDIMM 256GB, 128GB RDIMM 3DS
Expansion Slots	12 x PCIe Gen5 slots [PCIe Switch directly] - 8 x PCIe Gen5 x16 link (LP, HL) [CPU directly] - 1 x PCIe Gen5 x16 link (FH, HL) +1 x PCIe Gen5 x16 link (FH, HL) - 1 x PCIe Gen5 x8 link (FH, HL) +1 x PCIe Gen5 x8 link (FH, HL)
Storage	Optional Kits: -Broadcom MegaRAID 9670W-16i -Broadcom MegaRAID 9560-16i
Networking	2 x 10GbE LAN ports (Intel X710-AT2 Controller) 1 x Management Port
Front I/O Ports	4 x USB 3.2 Gen1 ports 1 x VGA port 2 x 10Gb RJ45 LAN module (Intel-x710 Based) 1 x Mgmt LAN 1 x Locate button 1 x Power button
Rear I/O Ports	1 x Locate button 1 x Power button
Switch/LED	Front : 1 x Power Button/LED 1 x Location Button/LED 1 x Message LED 1 x Q-Code/Port 80 LED Rear : 1 x Power Button /LED 1 x Location Button /LED OS Support
Management Solution	ASUS Control Center ASUS ASMB11-iKVM (on-board)
Regulatory Compliance	BSMI, CB, CE, FCC, KCC
Dimensions	885mm x 447mm x 306.65mm
Form Factor	7U
Weight	Net Weight: 99 Kg Gross Weight: 154 Kg
Power Supply	4+2 or 3+3 Redundant 3000W 54V 80 PLUS Titanium Power Supply
Environment	Operation temperature: 10℃ ~ 35℃ *with BlueField-3, the operation temperature will be 10℃ ~ 30℃ Non operation temperature: -40℃ ~ 70℃ Non operation humidity: 20% ~ 90% ( Non condensing)

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