Back in April we did a piece on digital storage used for the imaging of the black hole event horizon of a black hole in a neighboring galaxy (M87), 55 million light-years away, including the Western Digital helium sealed HDDs used to capture data at the 8 radio telescopes that were analyzed by astronomers at MIT and the Max Planck institute (MPI) in Germany. Since then we were contacted by Supermicro about their servers and storage used in the processing of the event horizon data to create the images. What follows is some information about what we found out.

Today Super Micro Computer launched the industry's first family of server and storage systems that support EDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Storage Form Factor) NVMe drives. Supermicro (Super Micro Computer Incorporated, SMCI) was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest growing IT companies in the world. Supermicro provides a wide range of products and servers; most focused around cloud software and hardware.

Recently, STH had its Supermicro BigTwin SYS-2029BZ-HNR Review. This 2U4N server is an update to the previous Xeon E5 Supermicro BigTwin. Now, there is a new update that is even more exciting. The newest Supermicro BigTwin E1.S has even more storage capabilities than the one we recently reviewed.

Two months ago, the first-ever image of a black hole took the internet by storm. A team of scientists took years to produce and verify the striking image – and now, Tom Coughlin (on behalf of Supermicro) has provided a behind-the-scenes look at the hardware that helped make it possible.

The Supermciro AS-E301-9D-8CN4 is one of the more obtuse model names, but it is certainly one of the most exciting embedded servers we have seen in some time. It takes the same CSE-300 chassis footprint and adds extra space for more storage. By stretching the case from 1U to 1.5U, the expansion capabilities of the chassis increase dramatically. In our review, we are going to look at the Supermicro AS-E301-9D-8CN4’s key features. We will then test the performance and power consumption of the onboard AMD EPYC 3251 8-core, 16-thread SoC.

Super Micro Computer Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,296,228) developed by Tseng, Kelvin, San Jose, CA, Shih, Trina, San Francisco, CA, Liang, Lawrence H., and Chen, Richard, San Jose, CA, for a “low capacity latency storage enclosure with logic device.“

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, supplies server and storage systems that deliver maximum performance to power major breakthroughs in a wide range of HPC applications including scientific research and space exploration.

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