Supermicro is a company that provides global original design manufacturing services. Founded in 1993, they are headquartered in San Jose, California. In 2000 and 2001, they became the first provider of 1U blade servers and BladeCenter chassis to the industry. Supermicro has global headquarters in San Jose, California with manufacturing facilities at Changshu (near Shanghai), Shenzen, and Taizhou (near Hangzhou) in China; Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s foundry in Hsinchu, Taiwan; as well as Irvine and Fremont, California. Supermicro has its own ISO 9001 certification and the Supermicro Certified Professional program.
Supermicro is a leader in power-efficient enterprise computing solutions, including servers, storage, blade servers, and building blocks for the most demanding IT environments. Backed by its advanced server building blocks and comprehensive engineering services, Supermicro delivers to customers unparalleled quality, service, and support.
Supermicro was an early pioneer in developing high-density microprocessor-based systems for cluster computing applications. With more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing high-performance systems for compute-intensive computing applications such as data mining and bioinformatics, life sciences research, financial analysis, and engineering simulation, Supermicro has developed strong expertise in high availability clustered systems. In addition to its hardware and systems expertise, Supermicro has also developed a broad range of cluster management software that enables customers to efficiently manage their high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
As of February 2012, Supermicro had more than 90% of the server market share in the Top 500 largest supercomputers, out of over 6,000 systems. Specifically, IBM purchased 20% while Apple and other companies each purchased 10%. The remaining 60% of the market was divided among 250 different companies with each providing 1% or less; collectively these companies had a combined market share of around 87%. Out of the top 300 supercomputers from November 2010 to June 2011 in terms of total performance on the list by TOP500 Supercomputing sites. Supermicro had a total market share of 83.5%, or around 20% of the total TOP500 systems; Apple’s market share was 7.5%, or 5.38%; with the remaining 2.34% split among the 250 other companies.
Supermicro provides a broad range of servers, storage, networking, and building blocks for use in high-performance computing applications such as data mining and bioinformatics, life sciences research, engineering simulation, and financial analysis. Supermicro is also setting new standards for high-density computing platforms with innovative “2U” server designs that provide more power in less space than any other server system on the market today.
In 2009, Supermicro was the first server company to ship over 1 million servers per year. In 2010, Supermicro shipped over 1.3 million servers, a 42% increase in total sales and revenues for the year.
Supermicro is a provider of custom-engineered high-performance computing solutions for scalable server and storage platforms applications. Supermicro’s portfolio of systems is designed to meet the highest performance expectations for the most demanding applications with power-efficient, high-density implementations that incorporate industry-leading technology. The latest Supermicro server systems include X11SSH, X10SBC, and X9SBC, all based on Intel® processors.
Supermicro’s advanced computing solutions include: Cisco Compatible Infrastructure (CCI), Microsoft Compatible Infrastructure (MCI), and Open Compute Project (OCP) designs from various server platforms.
In 2007 Supermicro was among the first to introduce budget UPS systems with a guaranteed 5-minute time objective for critical data centers worldwide. The new line of UPS systems, including the Socket Server Blackout-Free UPS, can provide instantaneous power supply to allow uninterrupted operation of data center infrastructure at no cost in the event of a power interruption.
In 2008 Supermicro first introduced an array of blade servers with integrated “hot swappable” drive bays. Each 3U server can support up to seven hot-swappable drives, four internal and three external. The X9SAE and X9SDMI are fully redundant systems and include redundant dual-redundant 480V power supplies and virtually unlimited drive capacities. The X9SAE is available in 2U rack form and the X9SDMI is available in 4U rack form.