- Inspur addresses customer needs for four-socket, high-density servers and rack-scale systems in artificial intellligence (AI), edge computing and high-density storage pooling
- OpenRMC North Bound Management API 1.0 designed to satisfy northbound standard interface specification
- OpenRMC Version 2.0 is scheduled for release in 2020
- Inspur NF8380M5, suitable for multi-scenario AI applications is OCP-approved
Inspur, a data centre and AI full-stack solutions provider, has been an active advocate of open source technology. The company has released the OpenRMC Version 1.0 North Bound Management Application Programming Interface (API) specification at the OCP Regional Summit.
Inspur is also announcing plans to release OpenRMC Version 2.0 in 2020. This is a complete rack reference solution to address users’ needs for two-way, comprehensive management of an entire rack system with a comprehensive web interface.
Devoted to the technology development of AI, edge computing and high-density storage pooling, Inspur continues development of four-socket, high-density servers and rack-scale systems. The new OpenRMC NB API 1.0 is to be contributed in the OCP Hardware Management Working Group for open discussion. The solution is designed to help users, especially those in small and medium-sized data centres, slash the cost of IT operation and maintenance, unify management of multivendor systems and boost efficiency.
The OpenRMC 1.0 system level management suite emphasises “platformisation” and compatibility. This solution grants the management of other equipment beyond computing and drives smooth integration with the Redfish standard management API. Forthcoming versions 2.0 of OpenBMC and OpenRMC from Inspur, scheduled for March 2020, will deliver an even more complete rack reference system with a comprehensive web interface.
Inspur's latest OCP-approved platform, the NF8380M5, is a 3U four-socket server based on the Project Olympus normative four-socket server developed for the Intel Purley Platform. Suitable for multi-scenario AI applications, the NF8380M5 can drive GPU acceleration training workloads when serving as a compute head node. It also supports all NVMe solid state drive (SSD) configurations for real-time decision database applications. Other Inspur’s OCP-approved products include the NF8260M5, ON5263M5, ON5266M5and ON5388M5.
Inspur is further turning I-Flex server design standards open-source in the OCP community. Based on the T-Flex 1.0 collaboration with Tencent, I-Flex was developed by Inspur to satisfy the demands of Internet businesses.
I-Flex enables modularised deployment of servers based on different application scenarios. Based on input-output (I/O) pooling technology, I-Flex enables modular iteration and flexible combinations of servers by recombining different server modules. I-Flex not only supports current system depths but also a short chassis form which can meet the needs of future edge computing scenarios.
Inspur’s latest contributions to open computing are a result of the company’s focus on four-socket, high-density servers and rack-scale systems, and the decision to drive performance and efficiency upgrades required in AI, edge computing and high-density storage pooling.
Alan Chang, Deputy GM of the server product line with Inspur said, “To seize the tremendous opportunities and vitality of the open computing market in the years ahead, Inspur will remain firmly committed to leveraging our decades of experience in data centre-level product design to promote new open architectures and facilitate a broader and more complete open ecosystem."
Inspur provides data centre infrastructure, cloud computing, and AI solutions, and is a global top-three server manufacturer. It is the only server vendor who has joined all major open computing organisations, including the OCP, ODCC, and Open19.
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