Pegatron AS402-2T1-8H2
The Pegatron AS402-2T1-8H2 is a 4U GPU server built around the NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU platform. This system supports up to 1100W TDP for the GPUs and features dual Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 350W TDP each. Each GPU has 288GB of HBM for a total of 2.3TB on the board.
The front view shows the dense storage configuration with 8 PCIe 5.0 x4 U.2 drive bays plus 2 additional U.2 slots for OS drives. This gives substantial local storage for datasets and model checkpoints.
Under the drive bays, the front I/O panel includes power and reset buttons, NMI and UID buttons, USB 3.0 ports, VGA output, IPMI management port, and dual network ports. Having all of this accessible from the front makes service much easier. Also, you can see the chassis pass-throughs that could be used to route these three network ports to the rear, something we have seen in other servers.
The HGX B300 board integrates NVIDIA ConnectX-8 OSFP networking, delivering 800Gbps of network throughput per GPU.
The liquid cooling fittings are visible here. With GPUs drawing up to 1100W, air cooling alone is not sufficient for dense deployments. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling removes the heat more efficiently.
This is considered a hybrid cooling model because it uses liquid cooling for the most power hungry components, and then air cooling for the rest.
Having this type of hybrid cooling system allows for components like DIMMs, SSDs, and others to be air-cooled lowering the system complexity.
Next, let us check out another ConnectX-8-based platform.
Pegatron AS400-2A1-CX8
The AS400-2A1-CX8 is a 4U server designed for AI inference and visual computing workloads. This system supports NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with air cooling.
The front view shows a clean design with drive bays and cooling intake. This chassis is built for high-density GPU deployments while maintaining serviceability.
Here we see the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition installed. These are the air-cooled GPUs that are designed to fit into the NVIDIA ConnectX-8 PCIe switch board.
Since this is an air cooled server, we get a big fan partition.
The GPUs each have 600W TDP, and the two AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” processors can go up to 400W each, so this is a high-power server.
Pegatron had a number of the NVIDIA Vera modules on display, so let us look at those next.
