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Why test with Boston LABS?

In some instances, the only way to know if a product or solution meets your needs is to try it. Our technical team are ready to help build full solution stacks on cloud-based lab systems or even on loan hardware that can be brought to your environment to ensure the right product is purchased for the right task. Our R&D lab - Boston Labs hosts a wide variety of the latest hardware and software solutions ready for evaluation either remotely or hand in hand with one of our experienced field application engineers

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On site test facilities available for your use. New and improved technologies are emerging all the time, and this can be a daunting situation for customers planning their future projects. Making the right decision about new hardware is a difficult proposition, made even harder when clients are unable to test and understand the hardware first before making their purchase.

In some instances, the only way to know if a product or solution meets your needs is to try it.

Our experienced team can assist with bring up and optimisation of both hardware and software elements of solutions. Advice on the best product selections and tuneables delivering the best performance, power consumption and cost is on tap when you book a session at Boston labs.

 

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Helping your business grow with Boston Labs


New Product Development
& POC


  • Innovate with Confidence: Leverage Boston Labs as a testbed for cutting-edge products and breakthrough solutions tailored to your needs

  • Proof-of-Concept Excellence: Test multi-layer solutions in a controlled sandbox environment, accelerating time to market

Latest
Technologies


  • Stay Ahead of the Curve: Gain early access to the latest technologies, including hardware and software innovations, often 2+ years ahead of general release

  • Explore the Frontier: Experience advancements through vendor representation and exclusive demonstrations

Collaboration Testing
and Development


  • Co-Create the Future: Partner with Boston Labs to design, test and optimise solutions in a collaborative environment with experts and technology leaders

  • Cross-Industry Collaboration: Work closely with vendors and customers to refine product performance and ensure readiness for deployment

Support Centre
and Debug


  • Comprehensive Support Ecosystem: Access expert technical support and debugging services to resolve challenges swiftly and efficiently

  • Streamlined Development: From testing to deployment, ensure seamless integration and minimise downtime with our tailored support framework

 

 

Solutions available to test

Dual Processor AMD 8U System with 8 x AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPU

 High density 8U system with AMD Instinct MI300X 8-GPU
 24 DIMM Slots
 8 PCIe 5.0 x16 LP + up to 4 PCIe 5.0 X16 FHFL slots
 Flexible networking options
 Up to 16 hot-swap 2.5" NVMe drive bays
 GPU A+ Server AS -8125GS-TNMR2

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2U Hyper with Dual AMD EPYC™ 9005/9004 Series Processors

 Dual AMD EPYC™ 9005/9004 Series Processors
 Support up to DDR5 24 DIMM slots (1DPC)
 Flexible networking options with 1 AIOM networking slot
 Up to 24 front hot-swap 2.5" NVMe/SATA drive bays
 Capabilities for GPU and CXL 2.0 support
 Supermicro AS-2126HS-TN

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2U Hyper with DUAL Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors with Performance-Cores

 Dual Intel® Xeon® 6900-Series Processors with P-cores
 24 DIMMs supporting up to 6TB 6400MT/s DDR5 RDIMM
 Optional PCIe, configurations up to 8 PCIe 5.0 x8 or 4 PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
 Flexible networking options with up to 2 AIOM networking slots
 8x 2.5" hot-swap NVMe/SATA/SAS drive bays
 Hyper SuperServer SYS-222HA-TN

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2U RACKMOUNT GPU WORKSTATION WITH AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 7000WX series Processor

 AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 7000WX series
 2600W Redundant Power Supplies Titanium Level Certified
 8 DDR5 ECC Registered RDIMM/3DS RDIMM
 1 AIOM/OCP NIC 3.0 Slot
 Supermicro AS-2115HV-TNRT

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4U server supporting up to 8 GPU cards ideal for AI, virtualisation, and GPU compute

 Flexible GPU support: active & passive, up to 8 double-width cards
 Dual-Socket, AMD EPYC™ 9004/9005 Series Processors
 24 DIMM Slots, up to 6TB DDR5 memory
 up to 4 Hot-swap 2.5" NVMe drive bays
 GPU A+ Server AS-4125GS-TNRT

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2U SINGLE SOCKET with AMPERE® AMPEREONE® PROCESSOR

 Single Socket Ampere® AmpereOne® Processor
 16 DIMMs
 Up to 4TB ECC Registered DDR5-5600/4800MHz RDIMM/LRDIMM
 Supports up to 4 PCIe 5.0 x16 Double Wide GPU Cards
 4x 2.5" U.2 NVMe Hot-Swap Drive Bays
 Supermicro ARS-211M-NR

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2U MGX WITH DUAL PROCESSOR NVIDIA GRACE SUPERCHIP

 NVIDIA Dual 72-core CPUs on a Grace™ CPU Superchip
 Up to 960GB ECC LPDDR5X memory
 up to 2 NVIDIA® PCIe GPUs
 5 PCIe 5.0 x16 FHFL Slots
 4 E1.S NVMe Storage Support

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SUPERFREQ – 2U Single Socket server designed for HFT TRADING

 Overclocked Intel® Xeon® W-2400 Series Processors
 16 cores at 4.9GHz / 24 cores at 4.8GHz
 128GB overclocked 6000MHz DDR5 memory
 4x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots for Low Latency NIC’s
 Enterprise grade All-In-One Liquid Cooling Unit
 IPMI Remote Server Management with iKVM and VirtualMedia support

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1U SINGLE SOCKET with AMD EPYC™ 8004 SERIES PROCESSOR

 Single Socket AMD EPYC™ 8004 Series Processor
 6 DIMM slots, DDR5-4800MHz memory, support up to 576GB
 Single dedicated IPMI LAN
 10 Hot-swap 2.5" SATA
 Supermicro AS-1115SV-WTNRT

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Tower GPU workstation with AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 5000WX series Processor

 AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO
 64 Cores/128 threads
 4.4 GHz Max Boost
 4 x Dual Width Graphics Cards
 PCIe Gen 4 support and M.2 storage

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Tower GPU workstation with Intel® Xeon® W-3500 series processor

 Intel® Xeon® W-3500 and W-2400 processor support
 Up to 56 Cores/112 threads
 4.8 GHz Max Turbo boost
 4x Dual Width Graphics Cards
 PCIe Gen 5 support and M.2 storage

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1U HYPER WITH DUAL AMD EPYC™ 9005/9004 SERIES PROCESSORS

 Dual AMD EPYC™ 9005/9004 Series Processors
 Support up to DDR5 24 DIMM slots (1DPC)
 Flexible networking options with 1 AIOM networking slot
 Up to 12 front hot-swap 2.5" NVMe/SATA drive bays
 Capabilities for GPU and CXL 2.0 support
 Supermicro AS-1125HS-TNR

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Boston Quattro with ZutaCore 2-phase Direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology

 High Performance 2-phase direct-to-chip cooling
 4 hot-swappable dual processor server nodes
 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
 Up to 4TB DDR5-5600 ECC memory

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2U 2-node RACKMOUNT WORKSTATION WITH AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO or EPYC processor

 2U dual-node rackmount chassis
 AMD EPYC 7002/7003 or Threadripper PRO 5000WX series
 Up to 2TB of DDR4-3200 memory per node
 Up to 3 x RTX A6000 per node
 IPMI Remote Management with iKVM and Virtual Media

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Graphcore POD16 CLUSTER for AI and DEEP LEARNING

 16x GC200 Mk2 IPUs
 4x IPU-M2000
 4 petaFLOPS FP16.16, 1 petaFLOPS FP32
 23,552 IPU Cores
 141,312 Threads

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NVIDIA DGX H100

 32 petaFLOPS of FP8 compute
 640GB of total GPU memory
 2TB of system memory
 8x NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
 PCIe 5.0 lanes

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Components available to test


supermicro
  • Supermicro DCMS Suite – SUMS, SSM, SPM & IPMI
  • Supermicro Cloud Composer
  • Please see below for list of SKUs and solutions available
intel
  • 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family (Ice Lake)
  • 4th gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Sapphire Rapids)
  • 5th gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Emerald Rapids)
  • Intel® Xeon® 6 with P-Cores (GNR-AP)
  • Intel Xeon W-2400 & W-3400 Series
  • Intel® Arc™ Pro A50
  • Intel® Arc™ Pro A40
nvidia
  • NVIDIA H100 PCIe
  • NVIDIA A100 PCIe
  • NVIDIA A10
  • NVIDIA RTX4000, RTX5000 and RTX6000 Ada Generation
  • NVIDIA T4
  • NVIDIA H100 NVL
  • NVIDIA H200 NVL
  • NVIDIA L40S
  • NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper / Supermicro ARS-111GL-NHR
  • NVIDIA GRID
  • NVIDIA Cloud XR
  • NVIDIA AI Enterprise
  • NVIDIA Base Command
  • NVIDIA GRACE GRACE (Grace SuperChip) / Supermicro ARS-221GL-NR
amd
  • AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series 4th gen AMD EPYC (Turin)
  • AMD EPYC 9004 Series with AMD 3D V-Cache Technology (Genoa / Genoa-X)
  • AMD EPYC 97x4 Series (Bergamo)
  • AMD EPYC 8004 Series (Sienna)
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series
  • AMD Ryzen 7000 series
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000WX Series
micron
  • Micron 3500 Series Series M.2 NVMe SSD
  • Micron 7450 Series U.3 NVMe SSD
  • Micron 7500 Series U.3 NVMe SSD
  • Micron 9400 Series U.3 NVMe SSD
vmware
  • VMWare vSphere Suite with VSAN
  • VMWare Horizon
AMD XILINX
  • Xilinx Alveo U200 FPGA
  • Xilinx Alveo U50 FPGA
  • Xilinx Alveo U30 FPGA
Zutacore
  • Zutacore (Waterless direct-on-chip liquid)
Asperitas
  • Asperitas AIC24 Liquid Submersion Tank
Ampere
  • Ampere One X
Graphcore
  • Graphcore GC2000 POD16
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Frequently asked questions

What is Boston Labs, and what services do you offer?

Boston Labs is a state-of-the-art testing and evaluation facility that allows customers to trial cutting-edge hardware and software solutions. We provide access to servers, workstations, storage systems, AI platforms and HPC clusters to simulate and optimise workloads before purchasing.


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