At SC24, we stopped by the ASUS booth and saw a number of fun server platforms. Perhaps better said, a farily huge breadth of more unique servers. We figured we would highlight a few of them in a piece.
ASUS AI POD NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Platform
One of the big stories is that NVIDIA is ramping its Blackwell generation. As a result, we have a number of demos on the SC24 show floor, and this one has the plate signed by Jensen, NVIDIA’s CEO.
The front of the ASUS AI POD showed off the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with the power trays by Delta, and then the compute nodes and NVLink Switch nodes.
Here is a side angle of the good looking rack.
The back of the system showed the ORv3 inspired rack with the busbar power, blind mate cooling, and the NVLink spine.
If you were not careful, you might have missed the bootm area.
Cooler Master is making liquid cooling and we can see the big nozzles here. This was a cool choice for the liquid cooling fittings.
ASUS also had a use case for this on the show floor.
The Ubitus Robot Dog Trained on ASUS AI Servers
Next to the ASUS AI Pod was the an ASUS and Ubitus demo.
It was harder to capture in photos than video, but the robot dog would periodically get up and interact. The reason for this being in the booth is that a lot of the work in LLMs that folks often think of as being used for chatbots, but the methdologies are being used for self-driving cars, robots, and more.
The robot dog itself is powered by a NVIDIA Jeston Orin computer. NVIDIA is still officially set to launch the NVIDIA Thor platform in 2025 which is supposed to fare better with transformer networks. One of the challenges NVIDIA faces is that embedded product cycles are long making acceleration for modern AI techniques tricky. It was extra cool to see that this was powered by the current generation NVIDIA Jetson Orin though.
It always feels like the future when these robots stand up and say hi at shows.
Next, we have a neat dual-node active-active storage server and a server that fits eight 500W TDP CPUs into a single 2U server with liquid cooling.
