NF5280M5

This 2U dual-socket 4GPU high performance server boasts high reliability and expansion for AI applications.

Intelligent Design. Uncompromised Flexibility.

Inspur AI Server NF5280M5 is a 2U dual-socket rackmount server optimized for new AI applications. It supports the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and supports 4 GPU accelerator cards in a 2U chassis for high quality and reliable performance. It is suitable for all kinds of high-demand applications like computation, storage and telecom.

NF5280M5 is Inspur’s new generation flagship general purpose dual socket server with superior scalability, supporting up to 4 GPU cards in 2U, 24 2.5” drive bays and 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, with optimized thermal/cooling design and modular system architecture.

Key Features

NVIDIA GPU Cloud Ready
Engineered for high efficiency, reliability, and expandability
Application-driven Optimization Technology
Meet high compute, storage and network performance requirements

Product Use Case: Improving Animal Welfare Through Machine Learning

ElectrifAI is utilizing Inspur NF5280M5 servers to process and store data for its animal welfare product, AnimalAi, developed to improve conditions for animals in the livestock industry.

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Product Specifications

Feature NF5280M5
Form Factor 2U
GPU Supported by NVIDIA official certification, support 4 V100, T4 and other GPU accelerator cards
Processor 2x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor
Processor Core: up to 28 cores (freq. 2.7GHz)
Processor Frequency: up to 3.8GHz (4 cores)
Two UPI interconnected links, the maximum transmission rate of single link is 10.4GT/s
TDP: up to 205W
Chipset Intel C621/C622/C624
Memory Up to 24*DDR4 2400/2666/2933MT/s memory
Single CPU supports 12* DIMMs, dual CPU supports 24* DIMMs
Supports RDIMM/LRDIMM/Optane™ PMem
Each RDIMM/LRDIMM supports up to 128GB (Skylake) / 256GB (Cascade Lake)
Each Optane™ PMem supports up to 512GB (Cascade Lake)
Storage Front: up to 12* 3.5” / 25* 2.5” hard drives
Internal: up to 4* 3.5” and 2* M.2 SSDs
Rear: up to 4* 3.5”, 4* 2.5” hard drives
Supports SAS/SATA/SSD
(maximum quantity of supported hard drives corresponds to specific configurations )
Storage Controller Onboard SATA controller, supporting RAID 0/1/5/10
Optional onboard NVMe controller interface and Intel NVMe RAID Key
Network Supports 1* OCP or 1* PHY
PHY: supports 2/4* 1/10 Gb Ethernet port
OCP: supports 1/2* 10/25Gb Ethernet port
Standard PCIe Ethernet card: supports 1/10/25/40/100 Gb
I/O Expansion Supports up to 9* PCIe x8 slots
Different quantitative combination of x8/x16/OCP/PHY slots can be achieved by selecting different PCIe Riser
Supports up to 4 double wide GPU, 8 single wide GPU
Interface Front:1* USB 2.0 (supporting LCD module), 1* USB 3.0, 1* VGA, 1* UID indicator light and button
Internal: 2* USB 3.0
Rear: 2* USB 3.0, 1* VGA, 1* Management interface, 1* UID indicator light and button
System fan 4* hot-swap N+1 redundant fans (dual-rotor)
PSU Supports 2* 550W / 800W / 1300W / 1600W / 2000W PSU (Platinum/Titanium)
1+1 redundant
System management Onboard BMC management module, supporting IPMI, SOL, KVM
Over IP, virtual media and other management features; providing one 1Gb RJ45 management interface (supporting NCSI); supporting SSD life detection and other functions
OS Supports Windows Server / Red Hat / SUSE / CentOS / Debian / XenServer / Oracle Linux / ESXi / Ubuntu etc.
Dimensions 435mm (W) x 87mm (H) x 780mm (D)
Performance Benchmarks SPEC official result
Best application: Intel Xeon Gold 6238RIntel Xeon Gold 5220RIntel Xeon Silver 4215R

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