Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node

Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node

Brand: Inspur | Category: Servers

SKU: INSP-NF5488M6 | Part #: NF5488M6 | MPN: NF5488M6

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About the Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node

The Inspur NF5488M6 is an 8U AI-optimized server node supporting eight NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4 GPUs interconnected via NVIDIA NVSwitch to form a full all-to-all NVLink 3.0 fabric delivering 600 GB/s bidirectional bandwidth between all GPU pairs. This NVLink-switched topology eliminates the PCIe bandwidth bottleneck for GPU-to-GPU communication, enabling multi-GPU all-reduce operations in LLM training to perform at near-memory bandwidth speeds, dramatically reducing training time versus PCIe-connected GPU servers.

The host system employs dual Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen CPUs providing 80 CPU cores for data pre-processing, dataloader parallelism, and orchestration tasks. Eight U.2 NVMe drives in a high-bandwidth RAID-0 configuration feed training data to GPU host memory at sustained rates exceeding 30 GB/s, reducing dataset I/O from being a training bottleneck. Connectivity for multi-node cluster scaling is provided via eight HDR 200Gb InfiniBand ports (one per GPU), enabling full bisection bandwidth in fat-tree cluster topologies.

The NF5488M6 is Inspur's flagship AI server product and is widely deployed as the building block of 100+ GPU AI training clusters in research institutions, cloud service providers, and automotive AI development centers. Its design is directly comparable to the NVIDIA DGX A100 platform but with flexibility for independent HW+SW procurement and customization.

Ideal for

  • Large language model (GPT, BERT, LLaMA) training cluster node
  • Multi-node distributed deep learning training (MPI/NCCL)
  • Genomics AI and protein structure prediction (AlphaFold-scale)
  • Autonomous vehicle perception model training
  • Climate and weather simulation with AI surrogate models
  • Recommendation system embedding training at hyperscale

Technical specifications

ManufacturerInspur
Form Factor8U Rack
Processor SupportIntel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake-SP)
Sockets2
Max CPU Cores80 (2x 40-core)
GPU Configuration8x NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4
GPU InterconnectNVIDIA NVSwitch (NVLink 3.0), 600 GB/s all-to-all
Total GPU Memory640GB HBM2e
Total GPU FP16 Performance~2,496 TFLOPS
Memory TypeDDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM
Max System Memory2TB
Memory Slots32 x DDR4 DIMM
Local NVMe Storage8x U.2 NVMe (RAID-0, >30 GB/s aggregate)
Network (GPU fabric)8x 200Gb HDR InfiniBand (Mellanox ConnectX-6)
Network (Management)2x 10GbE
Power Supply6x 3000W Platinum hot-swap redundant
Total System PowerUp to 10kW
ManagementIPMI 2.0, Inspur BMC, Redfish, NVIDIA DCGM integration
Dimensions (H x W x D)349 x 447 x 900 mm
Operating Temperature5°C to 30°C
OS SupportUbuntu 20.04/22.04, RHEL 8, CentOS 8 (NGC certified stack)

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Technical Specifications

BrandInspur
CategoryServers
SKUINSP-NF5488M6
Part NumberNF5488M6
ConditionNew
Form Factor8U Rack
Processor SupportIntel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake-SP)
Sockets2
Max CPU Cores80 (2x 40-core)
GPU Configuration8x NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4
GPU InterconnectNVIDIA NVSwitch (NVLink 3.0), 600 GB/s all-to-all
Total GPU Memory640GB HBM2e
Total GPU FP16 Performance~2,496 TFLOPS
Memory TypeDDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM
Max System Memory2TB
Memory Slots32 x DDR4 DIMM
Local NVMe Storage8x U.2 NVMe (RAID-0, >30 GB/s aggregate)
Network (GPU fabric)8x 200Gb HDR InfiniBand (Mellanox ConnectX-6)
Network (Management)2x 10GbE
Power Supply6x 3000W Platinum hot-swap redundant
Total System PowerUp to 10kW
ManagementIPMI 2.0, Inspur BMC, Redfish, NVIDIA DCGM integration
Dimensions (H x W x D)349 x 447 x 900 mm
Operating Temperature5°C to 30°C
OS SupportUbuntu 20.04/22.04, RHEL 8, CentOS 8 (NGC certified stack)

Frequently Asked Questions about Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node

What does the Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node do?

The Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node is built for enterprise data-center workloads — virtualization (VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix), private cloud, database hosting, and AI/ML training. It fits standard EIA-310 server racks and supports redundant PSUs and hot-swap drives common in production environments.

What are the headline specs of the Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node?

Key specifications for the Inspur NF5488M6 8U AI Super Node: new condition; manufacturer Inspur; form factor 8U Rack; processor support Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen (Ice Lake-SP); sockets 2; max cpu cores 80 (2x 40-core); gpu configuration 8x NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4. Manufacturer part number NF5488M6. For the full datasheet with electrical, environmental, and compliance details, contact our pre-sales engineering team.