Supermicro provides premium solutions and services for the data center, cloud, enterprise IT, and consumer electronics markets. By focusing on technological innovation and delivering the highest quality of service to its customers. Supermicro designs manufacture and markets premium servers, workstations, and storage solutions. Supermicro is also a leading provider of professional services to the data center, cloud, and enterprise IT markets. The company’s deep expertise in engineering, product development, system integration, reliability, and quality assurance allows it to provide its customers with end-to-end solutions for their high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Supermicro is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in China (Beijing), Taiwan (Taipei), and Europe (London).
Supermicro is a subsidiary of Legend Holdings Limited, founded in 2005 as an independent technology-focused holding company. Legend Holdings acquired Supermicro in 2011.
Supermicro is the brainchild of Charles Liang, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate with a degree in electrical engineering. Liang first became involved in computing while studying for his BE degree at the University of Illinois. He joined Digital Equipment Corporation as a hardware engineer after graduating from college. He worked for them for eight years, designing some of Digital’s most successful computers, including their high-end VAX product line.
When Charles heard that Digital had an existing customer he knew who wanted to get into the server business, he left his comfortable position at Digital and ventured out on his own. That customer was Steve W. Jobs, who wanted to build a network computer. Their partnership evolved into a computer company called Next Inc., which became known as NeXT and Apple Computer.
Charles is well known for his innovative designs in high-performance computing (HPC) servers. His latest project is a powerful new server that supports eight-way and ten-way processors, now commonly referred to as the “Tenacious” server and workstation platform. The new Tenacious system boasts industry-leading ECC (error correcting code) memory and 2Tb/s of network bandwidth between the dual redundant systems in a machine.
Supermicro’s new generation server and workstation platform meet some of the modern data center’s needs. These systems offer a highly-efficient, balanced rack optimized for both eight-way and ten-way processors; a high density, 24×7 hot-swap power supply; redundant microprocessors; Intel® Xeon® and AMD Opteron™ Puma™ processors; dual redundant power supplies; redundant hard drives and solid state drives (SSD); integrated coolers for heat dissipation in each processor to preserve reliability; many expansion slots over one PCIe x16 slot and multiple low profiles PCIe x1 slots for low-profile add-in cards.
The new Tenacious server and workstation platform, Supermicro, offers a wide range of traditional rackmount servers, from single-socket to eight-way systems. These servers cover all the popular x86 processors, including Intel Xeon and Intel i7/i5, in both dual-socket and single-socket configurations. The Supermicro family of rackmount servers includes blade servers in one U or two U (2U) form factors, plus various accessories such as fans, power supplies, and hot swap bays for added convenience.
Supermicro also provides a broad range of workstation-class systems based on Intel’s Xeon processors. All workstations come with high-quality key components from leading manufacturers such as SiSoftware, Phison, Synology, and Lite-On Technology. Workstations are built to satisfy the needs of small businesses by offering an ideal balance of performance, flexibility, and affordability.
According to Gordon Haff, Supermicro president: “Our extensive product line with the 10th generation server platforms offers customers an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility, enabling them to meet all their evolving data center needs. We focus on delivering reliable hardware solutions to ensure customers have the best data centers possible.