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Accelerated Compute for AI and HPC
The ThinkSystem SR685a V3 is an 8U2S rack server built for demanding AI and HPC workloads. It’s accelerated for intense computing using industry-leading 5th or 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors, interconnects with the fastest transfer rate with AMD Infinity Fabric or NVIDIA NVLink, and supports 8x of the latest GPUs. It has the computing power to tackle modeling, training, rendering, financial tech, scientific research, and more.
Choice and Flexibility
ThinkSystem SR685a V3’s open architecture design enables it to be configured to meet unique workload requirements by offering the flexibility of choice.
Form Factor | 8U rack |
Processor | 2x 5th or 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors, up to 400W |
Memory | Up to 3TB using 24x DDR5 DIMMs at max frequency |
GPU | Supports 8x high-performance GPUs: 8x AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs with Infinity Fabric interconnects at 896 GB/s 8x NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs with NVLink interconnects at 900 GB/s |
I/O Expansion | Up to 10x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL adapters (8 front, 2 rear): 8x in front connected to PCIe switch for GPU connectivity 2x PCIe or 1x PCIe + 1x OCP3.0 in the rear connected to CPU for CPU connectivity |
Storage | Up to 16x 2.5″ hot-swap NVMe SSDs Up to 2x M.2 for boot (RAID support) |
Power | Up to 8x hot-swap power supplies, allowing full N+N redundancy |
Cooling | Air-cooled with N+1 hot-swap fan solution |
Management | XClarity Controller2 (XCC2), which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and alerting functions. The XCC2 consolidates the service processor functionality, super I/O, video controller, and remote presence capabilities into a single chip on the server system board. |