QNAP Systems has introduced a new NAS with AI functionalities specifically optimized for training AI models. It’s the TS-2888X.
According to QNAP, the NAS provides everything needed for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. There is also a need to significantly reduce latency, speed up data transfers and eliminate performance problems.
The TS-2888X should provide end users with a total solution that integrates huge storage potential, high computing power, a ready-to-use AI environment and comprehensive data protection. All this in addition to processes for artificial intelligence. The NAS also acts as a conference server. In addition, it lowers the threshold for R&D, making developments in the field of artificial intelligence more feasible and accessible.
Specifications
Specifically, the NAS application Intel Xeon W processors with 18 cores is now presented. It also features 36 threads and a peak power of 4.5 GHz. There is room for up to four high-quality graphics cards. The TS-2888X supports up to 512GB of DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2666 MHz-RAM. In addition, the well-known acceleration cards of NVIDIA, AMD and Intel were supported. There are also eight PCIe slots and an 80Plus Platinum power supply of 2,000 watts.
The NAS also features a hybrid storage architecture with eight 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s hard disk drive slots, sixteen 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s SSD drive slots and four 2.5-inch U.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD drive slots. The architecture offers the possibility to enable SSD caching or automatic layering, to speed up demanding applications.
Software environment
The extensive software environment allows organizations, according to QNAP, to easily configure and maintain applications for artificial intelligence. The QuAI needs to make a variety of open source programs and frameworks for AI processes – including Caffe, TensorFlow, AlexNet, and FaceNet – readily available to users. QuAI is an AI developer package that allows AI models to be quickly built, trained and optimized on the NAS.
In addition, there are flexible backup tools. The NAS provides snapshot protection to ensure data security and efficient emergency recovery.
This news article was automatically translated from Dutch to give Techzine.eu a head start. All news articles after September 1, 2019 are written in native English and NOT translated. All our background stories are written in native English as well. For more information read our launch article.
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