Gigabyte GIGAPOD Air-Cooled Edition
On the air-cooled side, we saw the Gigabyte G893-SD1. This server can handle not just air-cooled H100/H200 Hopper generation parts, but also the new Blackwell generation.
The systems are packed into each rack with the GPUs on top (with power supplies and fans at the rear) and the CPU tray on the bottom.
This is important because it allows for an easy transition to liquid cooling models without changing the CPU to HGX baseboard distance. Aside from the dual Xeon CPUs, we get eight front U.2 SSD bays and front I/O. We could not get to the rear at the show, but there are four dual-width and eight single-width PCIe card slots for networking.
Looking at the liquid and air cooling racks next to each other, we can see this CPU tray design remains the same while the GPU tray shrinks on the liquid-cooled version because it does not need tall heatsinks.
NVIDIA MGX Air-Cooled PCIe System
On the subject of air-cooling, we should probably mention The Gigabyte XL44-SX0. Gigabyte has a system for eight NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell server edition GPUs, or others like the NVIDIA H200 NVL setups.
For data centers without the power density for the SXM-based HGX platforms, or that simply need compute other than just AI compute (e.g. for rendering and graphics) then the option is a MGX system like this with many PCIe GPUs.
The other big star of the show was the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 node which we will get to next.
