AI and HPC Storage Solutions
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp E-Series
Turbocharge your AI and HPC workloads with high-performance NVMe storage and BeeGFS parallel file system.
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NVIDIA Base Command Manager brings together a design-optimized combination of AI computing, network fabric, storage, software, and support.
Every implementation is validated on a dedicated acceptance cluster at NVIDIA. The customer's design is replicated beforehand, and a suite of performance results is produced.
So, when DGX SuperPOD is deployed on site, it runs exactly as it was intended. AI supercomputers also require extremely high-speed storage to run at peak capacity.
In a well-architected system, storage solutions need to handle various data types—such as text, tabular data, audio, and video—in parallel and with unwavering performance. NetApp EF600 all-flash NVMe storage combined with the BeeGFS parallel file system is certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. To promote success, the EF600 array was carefully selected and tested for the unique demands of AI workloads.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp E-Series apart.
Accelerate time to insight
Certified Performance
All DGX SuperPOD certified storage is guaranteed to meet or to exceed the baseline NVIDIA performance threshold. The NetApp EF600 all-flash array, combined with the BeeGFS parallel file system, has been tested and certified by NVIDIA.
Scalable Building Blocks
Each EF600 and BeeGFS-based scalable building block adds up to 76GBps/23GBps of sequential read/write performance and 431TB of capacity. Capacity and performance can easily be sized and optimized for metadata operations, data storage, or any mix of the two.
Proven Availability
With proven 99.9999% availability, the EF600 array also significantly reduces your system's downtime.
BeeGFS Parallel File System
The glue between the NetApp EF600 and the NVIDIA DGX H100 Systems is the BeeGFS parallel file system. BeeGFS was originally created by the Fraunhofer Center for High-Performance Computing in Germany to solve the pain points of legacy parallel file systems. The result is a file system with a modern, user space architecture that is now developed and delivered by ThinkParQ, and used by many supercomputing environments.
Simplified Management with Base Command Manager
The same software that's used to manage thousands of NVIDIA systems, Base Command Manager, is the best-in-class infrastructure solution for provisioning and lifecycle management, monitoring, telemetry, logging, alerting, and scheduling. NetApp EF600 and BeeGFS integration with Base Command Manager makes deploying and managing your DGX SuperPOD storage much simpler.
Eliminate Design Complexity
- Get going faster by eliminating design complexity and guesswork with a certified solution.
- Simplify deployment with full integration into NVIDIA Base Command Manager.
Future-proof your investment
Agile AI Solution
From ingestion to processing, AI operations generate a lot of data. To manage and to process all that data, you need a solution that can quickly respond to data growth. With NetApp EF600 all-flash arrays at the foundation of your DGX SuperPOD, you get an agile AI solution that easily scales nondisruptively.
Single Namespace
BeeGFS enables your entire storage capacity to be served up in a single namespace—significantly reducing data management headaches.
Flexibility and Scalability
The flexibility and scalability of the solution enable it to support and adapt to evolving workloads, making it a strong foundation to meet your future storage requirements.
Modular Storage Building Blocks
Modular storage building blocks give you a granular approach to growth. You can scale seamlessly from terabytes to petabytes and beyond by adding capacity, one building block at a time. By increasing the number of storage building blocks, you can scale up the performance and capacity of the file system, enabling your solution to handle the most extreme workloads with ease.
Investment Protection Benefits
- Integration with BeeGFS enables next-generation workloads at scale.
- Quickly respond to changing workload demands and exponential data growth with a building-block architecture that seamlessly scales performance and capacity as needed.
- Get proven reliability, evidenced by over 20 years of and 1 million NetApp E-Series and EF-Series installations.
Maximize cost efficiency
TCO Optimization
When you're considering the cost of an AI solution, your initial investment in hardware and software is just the beginning. To accurately assess cost, you must look at the TCO for the solution. So, in addition to the deployment costs, you must also consider the costs of operating the solution after you have deployed it.
Price/Performance-Optimized Building Blocks
With the NetApp EF600 all-flash array, you get enterprise storage in price/performance–optimized building blocks that make small to large configurations cost-efficient.
Purpose-Built for Capacity-Intensive Environments
The EF600 all-flash array is purpose-built for capacity-intensive environments that require efficient space, power, and cooling utilization. Reduce operating costs with high-density drives and price/performance–optimized storage building blocks.
World-Class Enterprise Support
NetApp's world-class enterprise support organization supports the entire solution stack, so you never have to worry about outages or downtime.
Cost Efficiency Benefits
- Reduce operating costs with high-density drives and price/performance–optimized storage building blocks.
Engage the specialists
End-to-End Expertise
NVIDIA and NetApp experts work together to help you every step along the way. Assistance with planning, design, performance projections, installation, post-installation testing, and ongoing support are all part of the DGX SuperPOD experience.
Proven Collaboration
NetApp and NVIDIA have a long history of collaboration to deliver a portfolio of AI solutions to market. DGX SuperPOD with the NetApp EF600 all-flash array is a proven, validated solution that you can deploy with confidence.
Certified Support Team
The NetApp support team is certified and trained to help with supporting any issues that might arise with your BeeGFS deployment. This fully integrated, turnkey architecture takes the risk out of deployment and puts you on the path to winning the race to AI leadership.
Expert Guidance
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp E-Series fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Sequential Read PerformanceUp to 76GBps
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Sequential Write PerformanceUp to 23GBps
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Capacity per Building Block431TB
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Availability99.9999%
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Compute PlatformNVIDIA DGX SuperPOD (starting with 32 NVIDIA DGX H100 systems)
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StorageNetApp EF600 all-flash storage
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Network SwitchesNVIDIA Quantum QM8700 switches
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Software StackNVIDIA DGX software stack
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Management SoftwareNVIDIA Base Command Manager
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Parallel File SystemThinkParQ BeeGFS parallel file system
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E-Series and EF-Series InstallationsOver 1 million
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Years of Proven ReliabilityOver 20 years
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Storage TypeAll-Flash NVMe
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CertificationCertified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
Compare NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp E-Series Series
Select the right scale for your workload demands.
| Model Name | Max Capacity | Port Config | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NetApp EF600 | 431TB per building block | N/A | Get Quote |
| NVIDIA DGX H100 System | N/A | N/A | Get Quote |
| NVIDIA Quantum QM8700 Switch | N/A | InfiniBand switch ports | Get Quote |
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