Eurotech ships Blackwell edge servers

Eurotech said on April 16 that its ReliaCOR 55-20 and 61-11 edge servers are now in mass production with NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processors for industrial AI workloads. (eurotech.com) An edge server is a compact computer that sits near cameras, sensors, or machines instead of in a distant cloud data center. Eurotech said these systems target factory floors, operating rooms, and smart-city sites where companies want AI inference close to where data is created. (eurotech.com) The smaller ReliaCOR 55-20 is a 2U rack server with a 450-millimeter chassis, one AMD EPYC 4004 or 4005 processor, and support for one NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 or 6000 Max-Q Blackwell graphics card. Eurotech lists video processing, AI inference, and data logging among its main jobs. (eurotech.com) The larger ReliaCOR 61-11 is a shallow 4U server built around AMD EPYC 9005 chips and up to two NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q Blackwell graphics cards. Eurotech says that configuration can reach up to 7,000 FP4 TOPS and 192 gigabytes of GDDR7 memory, with 2x10GbE and 2x1GbE networking for high-bandwidth ingest. (eurotech.com) NVIDIA positions the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition for enterprise AI, analytics, simulation, and visual computing in data centers. Eurotech is pushing that same class of accelerator into short-depth systems meant to fit in cabinets and other space-constrained sites outside traditional server rooms. (nvidia.com) (eurotech.com) That matters for workloads that cannot wait to ship raw video or sensor streams back to a central cloud before making a decision. Eurotech’s examples include visual inspection, medical imaging, traffic analysis, and safety analytics, all of which depend on fast local processing and steady 24/7 operation. (eurotech.com) Eurotech is also selling the hardware as part of a fuller stack. The company said buyers can add its Edge Software Framework for operational-technology data fusion and its Everyware Cloud platform for device management, with native NVIDIA integration. (eurotech.com) The manufacturing footprint is part of the pitch. Eurotech said the new servers are part of a broader portfolio made in Germany by sister company InoNet, which Eurotech acquired in September 2022 to expand its industrial computer business in the DACH market. (eurotech.com 1) (eurotech.com 2) For buyers, the announcement is less about a lab prototype than a shipping product with fixed chassis, processor, networking, and software options. Eurotech’s message on April 16 was simple: Blackwell-class AI hardware is moving into industrial edge boxes that can be ordered for deployment now. (eurotech.com)