Inventec Artemis 1U and 2U NVIDIA GB200 Systems Shown

At Computex 2024, Inventec showed a pair of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (GB200) systems. Something a bit more unique is that the company has both 1U and 2U options. Dubbed the Inventec Artemis, these are the systems that are designed to be next-generation AI workhorses.

Inventec Artemis 1U NVIDIA GB200 System

The Inventec Artemis 1U is a fairly standard design for a GB200 NVL72 cluster. Or as NVIDIA might call it a NVL2 node.

In the front, we get the BlueField-3 SuperNIC and BlueField-3 DPU, E1.S storage, and management I/O.

Here is the NVIDIA GB200 node with the Grace CPU and the two Blackwell GPUs.

Power delivery is a big deal with these. It comes in via a rear bus bar.

Here is a quick look at the fans. Although this design is liquid cooled (block not installed, but you can see the nozzles) the fans are used to cool the non-liquid cooled parts like the NICs, SSDs, and so forth.

What is cool is that Inventec has a 2U version as well.

Inventec Artemis 2U NVIDIA GB200 System

Here is the larger 2U version. While we tend to talk about liquid cooling a lot, power is probably the biggest one that folks are talking about these days. If one cannot support a 100-120kW rack, then there needs to be a less dense solution.

Here we can see the solution with the power bus bar in the middle, liquid cooling nozzles on either side and then the NVLink connectors at the bottom.

The layout is very similar with the 2U benefitting the expansion card area.

Here we can see the two NVIDIA GB200 waterblocks. One interesting aspect is that the power and water being brought in higher in the 2U chassis means the power cables have an internal conduit around them.

Here is a better look at the copper liquid cooling block.

Overall, this looks very interesting.

Final Words

For those who do not know, Inventec supplies hyper-scale and other large customers with machines. They are also well known for making many of the HPE ProLiant series and motherboards for another swell OEM. Although this is not discussed often you can find those supplier details in the respective company’s supplier reports.

The NVIDIA GB200 generation is an opportunity to sell large systems to customers, and the GB200 is going to be the platform to beat in the next year.