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AI big data models, cloud computing, and massive data exchange are propelling data centers into the era of 800G high-speed interconnection. Traditional copper cables can't handle the load, discrete optical modules are too power-intensive, and cabling is messy and space-consuming—800G AOC active optical cables are becoming the true game-changer.

🔥 Three Major Pain Points in the 800G Era

Bandwidth Explosion: GPU clusters and east-west traffic surge, 400G is simply not enough.

Extreme Power Consumption: Traditional solutions suffer from severe heat generation, resulting in persistently high PUE.

Caching Nightmare: Heavy copper cables cause cabling management breakdowns in high-density data centers.

✨ Why is 800G AOC a Key Player?

800G full-speed transmission, supporting distances up to 100 meters, covering most data center scenarios.

Lower power consumption, saving 30%+ more power than ordinary optical module solutions, an essential for green data centers.

Lightweight fiber optic cable, easy to bend, high density, instantly clean and tidy cabling in the server room.

Plug and play, pre-integrated, fast deployment, fewer failures, and easier maintenance.

🖥 Core Application Scenarios

✅ AI intelligent computing clusters (GPU high-speed interconnect)

✅ Leaf-Spine architecture backbone links

✅ Distributed storage & HPC high-performance computing

✅ High-density interconnect for hyperscale data centers

Simply put:

The ultimate toy for AI training, deep learning, render farms, and supercomputing enthusiasts has arrived—the Dell EMC DSS 8440 4U GPU server.

This 4U dual-socket rack server from Dell EMC ESI series doesn't prioritize massive storage; it focuses solely on top-tier computing density.

Just how powerful is it?

Up to 10 full-height, double-width GPUs (up to 4/8/10 x NVIDIA Tesla V100)

4 PCIe switching chips for high-speed PCIe interleaved networking, ensuring no bottleneck for multi-card interconnection

9 additional PCIe slots on the back: 8 full-height + 1 half-height, allowing for easy expansion of network cards/accelerator cards

Slightly outperforms traditional 8-card SXM2 solutions in tensor computing power at the same density, with approximately 13.5% higher performance per watt

Compared to DGX-1, the machine learning performance gap is kept within 5%, and the cost is much more favorable

Future potential for even greater performance

Future support for Graphcore C2 IPU accelerator cards:

2 x Colossus GC2 per card, 2432 IPU cores

Nearly 1 PFLOPS of computing power for the entire system

Optimized specifically for machine learning training, more powerful than traditional GPUs

Uncompromising storage: