ASUS Announces ESC4000A-E10 Server Powered by the NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 22, 2020 — ASUS, the leading IT company in server systems, server motherboards and workstations, today announced ESC4000A-E10, a new GPU server powered by the NVIDIA A100 PCIe® GPU and featuring PCIe 4.0 expansion and OCP 3.0 networking. With faster compute and GPU performance, ESC4000A-E10 is designed to accelerate and optimize data centers for high utilization, while providing a low total cost of ownership. ASUS continues building a strong partnership with NVIDIA to deliver unprecedented acceleration and flexibility to power the world’s highest-performing elastic data centers for AI, data analytics and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

ASUS ESC4000A-E10 GPU Server

ASUS ESC4000A-E10 is a 2U GPU server powered by AMD EPYC™ 7002 series single-socket processors, which deliver up to 2X the performance and 4X the floating-point capability compared to the previous 7001 generation. Designed for AI, HPC and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) applications in data center or enterprise environments requiring powerful CPU cores, multiple GPU support and faster transmission speeds, ESC4000A-E10 delivers GPU-optimized performance with support for up to four high-performance double-slot or eight single-slot GPUs, including the latest NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPUs built on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, Tesla T4 and Quadro® GPUs. This performance also provides benefits for virtualization by consolidating GPU resources into a shared pool, enabling users to utilize resources in more efficient ways. ASUS ESC4000A-E10 also features up to 11 PCIe 4.0 slots for compute, graphics, storage and networking expansion. PCIe 4.0 provides transfer speeds of up to 16 GT/s — double the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 — and delivers lower power consumpti