At NVIDIA GTC 2025, we saw the ASUS AI Pod for the NVIDIA GB300 generation. We also saw many PCIe GPU systems as well as the new NVIDIA HGX B300 8 GPU system. For this one, we captured a bit of extra video and have a short:
That is a quick under 1 minute video and shows a few more views of the rack.
ASUS Booth at NVIDIA GTC 2025
The big focus of the ASUS AI Pod is dense AI compute.
Inside the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack there are 18 NVIDIA GB300 compute blades.
Each blade has four B300 modules and two Grace CPUs.
There is also the NVIDIA ConnectX-8 NIC supporting up to 1.6Tbps of networking near the Grace CPUs for scale-out networking beyond the rack.
There is also a NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU that would be liquid cooled as well as the power distribution board.
A neat feature was the the liquid cooled SSD array.
Between these compute nodes, there are 9 NVLink Switch sleds. The entire rack is connected through the NVLink cartridges at the rear. Those four cable cartridges have over 1000 wires each making them a complex and important part of the racks.
Here we can also see the bus bar power and the liquid cooling manifolds.
One fun item is that there was a lot of Cooler Master cooling. Many of our readers have used Cooler Master coolers on ASUS motherboards for years, so it was neat to see the collaboration at the high-end for AI systems.
There was quite a bit more in the booth as well.
