Data centers are responsible for powering nearly everything in our modern technology infrastructure, from online shopping to cloud productivity and healthcare operations. However, they are notorious for their high energy consumption and carbon footprint. According to a study published by the Institute of Physics, data centers in the US alone consume 1.8% of the electricity […]
Read More2022 for Inspur Information has been a year of relentless technological innovation to deliver diversified and cutting-edge solutions to support the industry’s demands in the digital transformation era. We announced many new product developments advancing AI, open computing, sustainability, and the metaverse, while topping AI benchmarks and rankings that raised the bar for various product […]
Read More2023 will be a year of continued exploration into the metaverse. Many corporations as well as individuals are interested in discovering how the metaverse can provide innovative solutions for a variety of workloads. As NVIDIA continues its push for its vision of the Omniverse, one such solution that comes to light is the virtual human. […]
Read MoreThis holiday season, Inspur was pleased to work with Family Giving Tree to bring holiday cheer to the most underserved members of the Bay Area community. Wish drives: fulfilling an in-need individual’s holiday wish Inspur partnered with Family Giving Tree to hold a Wish holiday drive, a program in which volunteers can fulfill specific wishes […]
Read MoreData centers are becoming bigger, denser, and more numerous. As data centers evolve, so do their cooling needs. A recent report by Research & Markets tracks the projected rise of liquid cooling following the data center industry’s growth, positing that the global data center liquid cooling market will grow from USD 2.1 billion in 2022 […]
Read MoreInspur announced today at the 2022 OCP Global Summit it is showcasing four recently Open Compute Project (OCP) certified systems. The OCP Inspired™ products include three General-Purpose (GP) Enterprise servers, namely the Inspur NF5180M6, NF5280A6, and NF5280R6, and one high-density cloud-optimized system called Inspur NF8260M6. Of the newly certified products, NF5180M6 and NF8260M6 are currently […]
Read MoreThe San Francisco Bay Area, as defined by the Association of Bay Area Governments, is a region of 9 counties surrounding San Francisco Bay. Aside from the technology innovations that have famously originated here, the Bay Area also boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and natural landscapes, including redwoods and wetlands. Headquartered in the […]
Read MoreIn the competitive AI hardware landscape, Inspur is partnering with Habana Labs, integrating Gaudi2, Habana’s second-gen deep learning training and inference processor, to fortify its high-performance server portfolio[…]
Read MoreAs a part of Inspur’s ongoing corporate social responsibility and community engagement initiatives, we have partnered this month with Veggielution, a six-acre community farm in East San Jose that serves to connect the neighborhood’s residents through food and agriculture. Veggielution’s Story Veggielution began in 2008 when three San Jose State students started a garden at […]
Read MoreWith the rapid digitization of the world at large, data centers have become a crucial keystone to the modern economy. Data center security is top of mind these days, as growing stakes come with growing risks. In just this year, there have already been several high-profile ransomware attacks that affected businesses and even governments. Cybersecurity […]
Read MoreAI has been seeing a meteoric rise in interest and development in the last few years, made ever more pertinent by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic which has transformed the way the world uses technology. Aside from supporting vast global social, information and entertainment infrastructures, emerging information technologies are also playing an increasingly important role in […]
Read MoreSPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) is a globally renowned third-party application performance testing organization that establishes, maintains, and endorses a set of benchmarks for evaluating server application performance. SPEC metrics have been used as the authoritative reference for both performance and cost of software and hardware platforms for selecting IT systems in key industries such […]
Read MoreMany have felt the impact of the current global energy shortage in some form or other in the last several months. But according to experts, we have been in the midst of an energy crisis since even before the Russia-Ukraine war erupted. And while oil and gas prices surge and governments expand energy resource options […]
Read MoreEvery year on March 8 we recognize the political, social and cultural achievements of women, as well as renew our pledge to champion gender equality and women’s rights. This Women’s Day, we invited a few of the remarkable women at Inspur to share their stories, career paths, and perspectives about working in the tech industry. […]
Read MoreThe past 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed businesses to accelerate their innovation and adoption of new technologies. As we step into 2022 and toward the 2-year anniversary of this global pandemic, it’s important to take a look at how our industry is growing and evolving. Here are some key trends that we […]
Read MoreTwo years into the global pandemic, the world is finding its bearings and settling into a new normal. Businesses resumed, figuring their way around obstacles to ensure continued production and delivery of goods and services. Similarly, while intermittently beset by ongoing challenges like logistics and supply chain disruptions, Inspur Information presses on, continuing to develop […]
Read MoreAs another year in the pandemic comes to an end, Inspur recognizes that much of the company’s recent growth is thanks to the world’s increasing reliance on technology to stay connected. As a leader in server manufacturing, Inspur takes its responsibility as a global corporate citizen seriously and strives to be a positive point of […]
Read MoreAs basic IT infrastructure shifts from the on-premise private IT datacenter to the public/hybrid cloud with the growing demand for more computing performance, the world is facing a new challenge: Cloud data centers now consume as much power as entire cities, while generating carbon emissions that are destabilizing the planet’s ecosystems. In 2020, exacerbated by the […]
Read MoreAs technological innovation accelerates and AI applications become more widely adopted for everyday operations, businesses are increasingly looking to invest in the proper equipment to run these applications and procedures. With this high capital investment comes the need for a way to gauge the performance of different available systems on the market. One of the […]
Read More“Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?” Generations of humans have asked these questions since the dawn of time, and with today’s technology we are one step closer to the answer. Inspur has partnered with an ancient DNA laboratory to apply intelligent computing to archaeological research in ancient DNA. This […]
Read MoreLast week, Inspur and the Open Compute Project Foundation hosted the 3rd annual OCP China Day, as an on-site conference in Beijing as well as a virtual event. It is a reflection on the 10 years since OCP’s inception and a look to the future, centered around the theme of “Open Compute for a New […]
Read MoreCross-posted at the OCP Official Blog 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of OCP, as well as the 30th anniversary of Linux. Decades after their inception, open compute, open source and open collaboration have become a driving force for efficiency and innovation in the IT industry. The 3rd Annual OCP China Day, organized by the OCP […]
Read MoreAn “industrial HPC revolution” is coming, predicts NVIDIA, catalyzed by a convergence of growing industry needs for high-performance computing, and breakthroughs in deep learning and compute acceleration. As an AI technology forerunner NVIDIA is paving the way with advanced computing infrastructures, like the A100 80G PCIe GPU. It delivers ultra-fast GPU memory bandwidth up to […]
Read MoreIn April, Inspur launched the all-new M6 family of servers that support Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable processors. Since the release the servers have been continuously listed in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), notching 20 world records in the SPECjbb2015, SPECpower2008, and SPECcpu2017 tests, attesting to the performance standards the server family set out to […]
Read MoreInspur recently published an IDC white paper on the 2020 Global Computing Index, the world’s first index report on computing. The report studies the relationship between computing power and economic development, and serves as a reference for the outlook of the global digital economy. Here are 9 insights from the report: 1) Computing Defines Productivity […]
Read MoreRecently, IDC released the 2020 Global Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker, which provides data insights into the global artificial intelligence server market in the first half of 2020: it shows that the market has now reached USD 5.59 billion. The market breakdown: Inspur ranks first in the world with a market share of 16.4%, becoming the […]
Read MoreOver the last year, Inspur worked vigorously to advance AI hardware and deliver solutions to customers and a market facing an extraordinary year of unprecedented challenges. Integrating the latest technologies into state-of-the-art products, Inspur continued to expand its full-stack AI portfolio of computing platforms, AI resource platforms, and algorithm toolkits to meet customer needs — […]
Read MoreJust how massive is the energy consumption of data centers? According to statistics, the total annual power consumption of global data centers is about to reach 300 billion kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to the annual power generation of 30 nuclear power plants. With the continuous development of computing technology and growing reliance on cloud services, […]
Read MoreIn late January, the international organization for performance evaluation, SPEC, announced the latest four-socket server performance test results. Inspur’s new-generation four-socket server NF8260M6 broke the SPEC jbb2015 test record with 397,601 Java transactions per second, a record previously held by Inspur’s NF8480M5. SPEC jbb2015 (Java Server Business Benchmark) is the latest generation of test benchmarks […]
Read MoreA year since the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the world has been indelibly changed. 2020 offers solemn lessons, but also renewed fervor and optimism as we take our first steps in 2021. It is important to reflect on and take stock of the ways we endured the year’s various hurdles and challenges, as a company and […]
Read MoreInspur hosted OCP China Day in Beijing on November 13 as part of the larger overarching annual OCP Tech Week, attracting more than 600 IT engineers and data center operators to the conference. Ecosystem leaders and OCP members, including Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, NVIDIA, Nokia, and Seagate, shared latest developments and innovative practices […]
Read MoreOn October 21st, the world’s highly anticipated and authoritative AI benchmark test MLPerf announced this year’s inference test list. Inspur AI server NF5488A5 set 18 performance records in one fell swoop, far ahead of other manufacturers’ products in data center AI inference performance. MLPerf is currently the world’s most influential AI computing benchmark evaluation organization, […]
Read MoreOn July 30, the world’s authoritative AI benchmark test MLPerf announced the latest results. Inspur’s NF5488A5 server set an AI performance record in the most regarded Resnet50 training task and ranked first among all submitted single-server performance results. MLPerf is currently the most influential artificial intelligence industry benchmarking organization in the world. It was established […]
Read MoreAhead of this year’s World Elephant Day, Inspur joined with Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve to develop an extensive technology system for the conservation of some 300 Asian elephants in Yunnan, China. The Asian elephant, found only in South and Southeast Asia and the southern border of Yunnan, had been critically endangered for decades. 30 years […]
Read MoreThe long wait for baseball is over, but the game looks a lot different from what fans are used to: no more flyovers, a shorter season, new rules, players wearing masks, empty stands, canned sound effects, and… dancing robots? First in Asia and then the US, baseball eventually returned to the fields during the 2020 […]
Read MoreFollowing the launch of the latest 3rd-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Inspur released on June 16 two all-new M6 series four-socket servers: the 2U cloud-optimized NF8260M6 and the 4U NF8480M6 for enterprise applications. The new generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor can scale to four and eight socket servers with a single CPU reaching up to […]
Read MoreAs a longtime technology partner of NVIDIA and leading GPU server provider, Inspur has been for years leveraging our foundational expertise in extreme hardware design to develop cutting-edge solutions for HPC and artificial intelligence applications. Latest GPU Server Family Featuring NVIDIA’s A100 Tensor Core GPUs 5488M5-D Accommodates 8 powerful A100 GPUs in 4U and supports […]
Read MoreOur friends at Serve The Home were excited to get their hands on Inspur’s NF5488M5, and you’ll find out why: strap in for this extensive review that evaluates the design, performance, and features of this 4U system packed with 8x NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs interconnected with ultra-high bandwidth NVSwitch. Read the STH Review »
Read MoreThe sudden and far-reaching impact of the global coronavirus crisis is being felt all across the technology landscape. This year’s OCP Global Summit is just one of many conferences to cancel as organizations and individuals alike grapple with a major paradigm shift: the physical space is no longer accessible. In response, many have found nimble, […]
Read MoreDear valued customers and partners, I am writing this letter to give you an update on the status of Inspur’s production given the impact of the recent coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city. Inspur has deployed production, procurement and services globally, allowing us to meet global delivery needs and reduce overall delivery risk. Our factories in […]
Read MoreUnder the general trend of globalization, actively embracing openness and carrying out market-based independent innovation is enterprise’s way forward. Inspur is pushing for new innovations through vigorous participation in various open source organizations, and through its JDM product development model. Industry and technology integration raise requirements Industries are increasingly integrating with modern technologies to revolutionize conventional […]
Read MoreOn September 26 at the OCP Regional Summit in Amsterdam, Inspur rolled out an all new OCP Acceleration Module (OAM) Reference System, which delivers a multi-OAM Universal Baseboard (UBB) supporting various […]
Read MoreLast week, IDC released the global x86 server market survey data for the second quarter of 2019, showing that x86 server shipments were down 9.8% year-on-year at 2.655 million units, with sales down 10.6% at $1.84 billion. The global server market shrank significantly since the previous quarter. Inspur climbs against the trend The top three […]
Read MoreEarlier this year Inspur’s GM of Sales for Strategic Accounts Bob Anderson sat down with Intel’s Kyle Ambert and Emily Hudson on their Intel on AI podcast to talk about the TF2 compute acceleration engine and how it lowers the barrier of entry to using FPGAs for AI inference. You can read it transcribed below […]
Read MoreAs a longtime advocate for open infrastructure and key member in many open communities, Inspur had the honor of hosting OCP China Day, the OCP Foundation’s regional summit on June 25 in Beijing. The conference attracted nearly a thousand attendees, with 200,000 more viewers tuning in to the event via live-stream. Engineers and data center […]
Read MoreThe team at Serve The Home, led by Patrick Kennedy, recently had a tour of the Inspur Intelligent Factory in Jinan to personally see the facility’s advanced manufacturing capabilities and systems, all covered in great detail in this comprehensive STH article. Key highlights from the tour that the team found notable: Efficiency through Automation The […]
Read MoreInspur is going to the OCP Global Summit 2019, the biggest conference in open data center technology, next month in San Jose. Come say hi and check out all the cool new tech we’re bringing to share with the OCP community! New innovations for OCP This year we’re exploring new avenues to enable open infrastructure […]
Read MoreRecently, Inspur delivered the latest batch of whole cabinet servers to Baidu’s Shunyi Data Center – a shipment of more than 10,000 nodes. The entire on-site delivery process took only a record-setting 8 hours, equivalent to deploying one server every 2.88 seconds, which is 20 times more efficient than conventional server deployment. Speed is name […]
Read MoreThe explosive growth of cloud computing applications like e-commerce, big data, mobile internet, IoT and other transformative information technologies call for large-scale customization in the cloud data center. Traditional whitebox OEM and client-branded ODM production models are no longer able to support the increasingly fast and complex customization needs of enterprises. Over the course of […]
Read MorePress release posted to PR News Wire. At the 3rd NlPS 2018 AutoML Challenge, the GrandMasters — a team comprising of AI engineers from Inspur Group, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), and Central South University (CSU), ranked 3rd among more than three hundred participating teams. Audodidact.ai, a team from a startup company, won first […]
Read MoreThe largest GPU, AI and deep learning technology conference in the East took place at GTC China 2018 on November 20. As a diamond-level sponsor, Inspur was there in attendance representing the industry’s most robust and complete GPU server series. Keynote: the speed and vigor of AI NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang kicked things […]
Read MoreAt the 2018 Artificial Intelligence Computing Conference, Inspur announced the AI super-server AGX-5: with performance reaching up to 2 teraflops per second, it is arguably one of the most powerful AI computing servers in the world to date. Inspur AGX-5 is equipped with 16 of the most powerful NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensor Core 32GB GPUs, […]
Read MoreInspur launched at the OCP Regional Summit in Amsterdam a whole slew of OCP building blocks as a part of the standard rack server solution. Optimized for compute, storage, AI and management, the systems’ technical advancements and design attributes deliver hyperscale data center performance at lower CAPEX and OPEX. It is meant to help drive […]
Read MoreCurrently, many AI companies adopt FPGA technology by way of achieving a customizable, low latency, high performance and high power-consumption ratio for AI inference application. However, there are still many challenges before FPGA technology can enter into large-scale AI business deployment, like the high software writing threshold, limited performance optimization, and difficult power control. The […]
Read MoreEnterprises are facing the problem of exponential data growth and diversification of business scenarios, resulting in more and more complex IT infrastructure in data centers and expanding on-demand hardware infrastructure. The need for rapid response is becoming more and more urgent. Based on the newest Intel Xeon Scalable computing platform, Inspur’s M5 series proposes the […]
Read MoreThe day OCP Foundation CTO Bill Carter crossed the ocean to deliver a keynote at the 2018 Inspur Partner Conference (IPF) in Beijing was the seventh anniversary of the Open Compute Project (OCP). Conceived in 2012, OCP was initially concentrated in the North American market, and gradually expanded to Europe and Asia in the last […]
Read Moreby Lang Wong, Director of Engineering, Cloud Service Providers, Intel & Jack Ma, VP of Product and Marketing, Inspur Systems Inc. Inspur is in development on an open server project based on Microsoft’s Project Olympus specifications. Microsoft’s Project Olympus is the de facto next generation open source cloud hardware design developed in collaboration with the […]
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