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NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU server

This 7U dual-socket server is powered by dual AMD EPYC™ 9004 processors, supporting 400W TDP and eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Designed to accelerate the development of AI and data science, ESC N8A-E12 offers a dedicated one-GPU-to-one-NIC topology and supports up to eight NICs for the highest throughput during compute-intensive workloads. To reduce operating costs, the ASUS ESC N8A-E12 is engineered to provide effective cooling and innovative components that deliver thermal efficiency, scalability, and unprecedented performance.

PCIe 5.0 Ready

Faster storage, graphics and networking capabilities

PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) 5.0 delivers 32 GT/s bandwidth, which is twice the speed of PCIe 4.0, and offers lower power consumption, better lane scalability and backwards compatibility. ASUS servers are PCIe 5.0 ready, with scalable designs to satisfy the increasing workloads or modern data centers.

900GB/s bandwidth
Powerful design with HGX 8-H100 baseboard (6860W)

1:1
Faster connection between storage,graphics and NIC with PCle Gen5 switch board

Friendly user experience
with modulization & toolless

Friendly user experience
with slade design and handles

Independent airflow tunnels design
With dual rotor fan modules

10 x Fans (80x80) for NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU baseboard

2 x 10Gb RJ45 LAN ports

1 x Management port

1 x Locate button

1 x Port80 Q code

1 x VGA port

4 x USB3.2 Gen1 ports

1 x Power button

8 x 2.5" NVMe
(PCIe switch)

8x PCIe Gen5 x16, HHHL (LP) (PCIe Switch directly)

GPU Sled
(4U)

CPU Sled
(3U)

2x 2.5” NVMe (CPU2)
/SATA (PCH)/SAS*
*SATA/SAS support required
an RAID card

1x Locate button

1x Power button

4+2 or 3+3 3000W 54V CRPS PSU

1x PCIe Gen5 x16,
FHHL+1 x PCle Gen5 x8,FHHL

GPU sled handle

CPU sled handle

8x PCIe Gen5 x16, HHHL (LP) (PCIe Switch directly)

GPU Sled
(4U)

CPU Sled
(3U)

2x 2.5” NVMe (CPU2)
/SATA (PCH)/SAS*
*SATA/SAS support required an RAID card

1x Locate button

1x Power button

4+2 3000W 54V CRPS PSU

1x PCIe Gen5 x16, FHHL or
OCP 3.0 + 1 x PCIe Gen4 x8,
FHHL

1x PCIe Gen5 x16, FHHL
+ 1 x PCIe Gen4 x8, FHHL

One-GPU-to-1-NIC Topology

Supports 8 NICs and 8 GPUs in one system

A dedicated 1-GPU-to-1-NIC topology that allows the ESC N8A-E12 to support up to 8 NICs, delivering the highest throughput for compute-intensive workloads.

Modular Design with Reduced Cable Usage

Easy troubleshooting and thermal optimization

The modular design greatly reduces the amount of cables used, resulting in a shortened system assembly time and avoiding cable routing, as well as improving thermal optimization by lowering the risk of choked airflow.

Advanced NVIDIA Technologies

The full power of NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs, NVLink, NVSwitch, and networking

The ESC N8A-E12 accelerates the development of AI and data science by incorporating fourth generation NVLink and NVSwitch technology, as well as NVIDIA ConnectX-7 SmartNIC. This also empowers GPUDirect^® RDMA, storage with NVIDIA Magnum IO^™, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise – the software layer of the NVIDIA AI platform.

Sustainability

Keep your data center green

Data centers can consume huge amounts of electricity, raising environmental concerns. ASUS servers are designed to optimize both total cost of ownership (TCO) and total cost to the environment (TCE), including thermal design, power efficiency and advanced cooling solutions — reducing the impact of our products on the planet.

Comprehensive liquid-cooling solutions

Better data-center power efficiency

As liquid cooling is maturing in the age of supercomputing, ESC N8A-E12 is purpose-built for sustainability. ESC N8A-E12 is ready to support direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling by request for maximum data-center energy efficiency.

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Turnkey rack support for solutions with full installation and testing
Server validated on selected liquid cooling solutions
Close partnerships with industry-leading cooling solution providers

Optimized Thermal Design

A two-level GPU and CPU sled for thermal efficiency

The ESC N8A-E12 features a streamlined design with dedicated CPU and GPU airflow tunnels for efficient heat dissipation. The two-level GPU and CPU sled design enhances thermal efficiency, scalability, and overall performance by allowing heat to be expelled into the surrounding ambient air – resulting in greater energy efficiency and overall system power savings.

ESC N8A-E12 CPU sled airflow tunnel feature

ESC N8A-E12 GPU sled airflow tunnel feature

4+2 or 3+3 Power Supplies

High level of power efficiency

To reduce operating costs, the ASUS ESC N8A-E12 provides effective cooling and innovative components. The 80 PLUS Titanium power supplies come in a redundant 4+2 or 3+3 arrangement to efficiently deliver an abundance of power.

Serviceability

Improved IT operations efficiency

Ergonomic handle design
Tool-free thumbscrews
Riser-card catch
LED status indicator
Front bezel protection
Tool-free cover

Management

Comprehensive IT infrastructure solutions

Advanced ASUS management tools comprise IT assets management, security and reliability to improve the performance, up-time and real-time monitoring of the servers remotely — highly increasing the efficiency of IT infrastructure.

BMC

Remote server management

ASUS ASMB11-iKVM is the latest server-management solution from ASUS, built upon the ASPEED 2600 chipset running on the latest AMI MegaRAC SP-X. The module provides various interfaces to enable out-of-band server management through WebGUI, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and Redfish^® API.

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ASUS BMC boot time comparison

IT infrastructure-management software

Streamline IT operations via a single dashboard

ASUS Control Center (ACC) is remote IT-management software application designed for monitoring hardware and software IT assets and inventory status, and enabling seamless remote BIOS configurations and updates, efficient IT diagnostics and troubleshooting and enhanced security with hotfix updates — allowing easier server management for any IT infrastructure.

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ASUS Control Center software on desktop, tablet and mobile device

Hardware Root-of-Trust Solution

Detect, recover, boot and protect

ASUS servers integrate PFR FPGA as the platform Root-of-Trust solution for firmware resiliency to prevent from hackers from gaining access to infrastructure. ASUS security solutions are fully compliant with the 2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800 193 specification.

* Platform Firmware Resilience (PFR) module must be specified at time of purchase and is factory-fitted. It is not for sale separately.

Trusted Platform Module 2.0

ASUS servers also include support Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys and offer regular firmware update for vulnerabilities.

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Performance

AMD EPYC™ 9004 series processors

AMD EPYC™ processors enable efficient data centers that maximize operations, while managing energy costs, delivering impressive performance per system and per rack—critical for allowing capacity growth in power-constrained environments.

Up to

128

Zen 4 Cores
Up to

1,150MB

L3 Cache

with AMD 3D V-Cache technology
128/160

(1 socket/2 socket)

PCIe 5.0

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