Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 vs Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard, so their accelerator performance is identical rather than merely similar. The choice between them is chassis, cooling, expansion and supplier, not FLOPS.
What actually differs
| Specification | Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 | Supermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Penguin Solutions | Supermicro |
| Part number | Altus XE5318GTSv2 | SYS-821GE-TNHR |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | 2024 |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | 1.1 TB |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | 38.4 TB/s |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL | NVSwitch + NVLink |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2
The Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 is a 5U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX H200 SXM5 modules of 141 GB each, hosted by AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL. Penguin's AMD-hosted Hopper workhorse, air cooled in 5U. Penguin publishes only rack height, host processor, expansion slots and the accelerator for its servers, so no power draw, total memory, interconnect bandwidth or throughput figure is shown here; its full datasheets are hosted off its own domain and were not used as a source.
Vendor product pageSupermicro GPU SuperServer SYS-821GE-TNHR
8U GPU SuperServer built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 baseboard with 4x NVSwitch. Two Intel Xeon Scalable sockets (4th or 5th Gen, up to 64 cores each at 350W, air-cooled), 32 DIMM slots to an 8 TB maximum of DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM, 19 front hot-swap 2.5-inch NVMe/SATA bays plus two M.2 NVMe boot slots, and 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low-profile slots with 2x FHHL. Also sold in an HGX H100 configuration. System-level power draw is not published.
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