Fortune Magazine recently heralded Supermicro as ‘riding the AI wave’, a testament to the company’s strategic foresight and dedication to AI innovation. Its secret? A customer-centric approach that has allowed the organisation to deliver fast, efficient and reliable performance, ensuring that it remains a dominant force in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
“At Pinnacle, we recognise and celebrate Supermicro’s accomplishments, attributing this success to an early and significant investment in research and development, coupled with a close collaboration with customers and partners to create integrated hardware and software solutions,” explains Pinnacle Business Development Manager, Christoper Coetzee.
A partnership poised to transform the local AI market
Incorporating Supermicro’s state-of-the-art solutions into Pinnacle’s AI offerings is a game-changer for the South African market, Coetzee adds.
“By working together, Pinnacle and Supermicro can offer customers a complete and reliable solution that’s backed by local support and expertise.
Cutting-edge AI solutions
Through Pinnacle, the latest and most advanced AI solutions from Supermicro are now available to the local market. Key offerings include:
- Powerful SuperCluster solutions: Scalable, ready-to-deploy generative AI clusters designed for complex AI workloads, the Supermicro SuperCluster solutions provide foundational building blocks for the present and future of large language model (LLM) infrastructure.
- NVIDIA HGX H100/H200 8-GPU systems: With unprecedented performance, scalability and reliability, Supermicro’s rack scale AI solutions accelerate the performance of computationally intensive generative AI, LLM training, and high performance computing (HPC) applications, while meeting the evolving demands of growing model sizes.
- NVIDIA MGX systems: Optimised for cloud-scale inference, this modular architecture is designed to standardise AI infrastructure and accelerated computing, enabling efficient AI deployment.
- Liquid cooling technology: Supermicro’s liquid cooling solution is able to reduce OpEx (operating expenses) by up to 40 percent, keeping systems running smoothly and efficiently while reducing energy consumption, which is crucial for maintaining performance and sustainability.
The inclusion of NVIDIA-certified systems, integrated with NVIDIA Ampere-family GPUs, will further accelerate AI workflows and inferencing.
AI for all industries
Pinnacle’s AI strategy, supported by Supermicro’s cutting-edge solutions, will target data-intensive industries poised to benefit significantly from AI’s transformative capabilities. This includes sectors such as healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, security, agriculture transportation, telecommunications government; and education.
“These are all areas that can use AI to work smarter, make better decisions, and innovate,” Coetzee adds. “And by leveraging Supermicro’s world-class solutions, Pinnacle is ideally positioned to empower local enterprises to achieve their strategic goals, helping to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive improvements and efficiencies.
“Our partnership with Supermicro signifies a bold step towards a future in which AI is an integral part of the business landscape in South Africa and beyond.”
For more information on the Supermicro solutions available locally through Pinnacle, please contact Christopher Coetzee on email: supermicro@pinnacle.co.za, or tel: +27 (0) 11 265-3000. Alternatively, please visit https://www.pinnacle.co.za/brands-managers-page/supermicro