NITRADO DELIVERS EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE
TO GAMERS WORLDWIDE WITH THE LATEST
SUPERMICRO AND INTEL® TECHNOLOGY

With the increased demand for high performance games increasing, Nitrado data center managers knew that they needed upgrades to the servers that run the games for thousands of users. Managing the game's logic with extremely low latency is a primary concern for high end games that involve simulations.

As the number of users connected to the Nitrado data center increased, the engineers at Nitrado realized that a new generation of servers would be required to maintain strict Service Level Agreements for their customers.

In addition, keeping costs low for the compute and storage infrastructure was critical. To deliver high end performance to its customers, Nitrado needed to get more work performed per watt of electricity, necessitating integrating systems with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Nitrado is a long-time customer of Supermicro, using many generations of motherboards and systems. Nitrado found that Supermicro had several advantages over many other established server vendors. One key advantage is that Supermicro delivered servers with the latest technology faster than other vendors and had a robust early ship program. In addition, the competitive pricing on systems that included the newest CPU and related technologies was of high importance to Nitrado.

Nitrado also uses several Supermicro's MicroCloud servers, specifically: MicroCloud 5039MC-H12TRF Intel E-2288G / 128GB RAM / 800GB M.2 NVMe.

Intel® Optane ™ Persistent Memory provided Nitrado with additional memory to store frequently used data that would not fit in DRAM but was still required for low latency responses. This allowed Nitrado to reduce the number of servers that would have been needed, reducing the footprint, thus saving power and space. In addition, the Intel® Optane PMem persistent memory reduced the overall costs of the solution while maintaining a strict SLA.

Nitrado can keep at the forefront of hosting the latest and most complex games ever created. By modifying their homegrown applications to take advantage of the Supermicro X12 servers that contain the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory, SLA's, in terms of latency were easily met. Nitrado expanded the number of concurrent users, solidifying its position as a worldwide leader in interactive game hosting.

Nitrado decreased the number of systems needed to deliver an engaging experience to their customers, which increases computing densities. With PMem, the CPUs are kept busy rather than waiting for data, thus increasing the ROI of the systems. The TCO is reduced, and the savings can be passed on to customers. With an increase in the amount of directly addressable memory (DRAM + PMem), innovative and exciting games can now be developed without the limits of previous generations of systems.