Supermicro and Nitrado’s Engineering Synergy Results in Optimized Game Server Infrastructure

• 🔺 Problem
  The Nitrado group required server hardware specifically engineered for diverse and demanding gaming workloads, ranging from resource-intensive sandbox worlds to fast-paced shooters, ensuring every player and community enjoys a consistently lag-free and responsive gaming experience.

 

• ✅ Solution
  Nitrado’s deep, ongoing collaboration with Supermicro enabled the procurement of server hardware precisely tailored to Nitrado’s, Apex Hosting’s, and GameFabric’s specific, wide-ranging needs for optimized player performance.

 

• ⭐ Product
  Nitrado, Apex Hosting, GameFabric Supermicro custom-configured server hardware, including AMD Ryzen™ MicroCloud with 3U chassis, and CloudDC Server with 1U chassis equipped with AMD EPYC™.

Overview

For every game server, no matter the specific titles they host, the underlying hardware infrastructure is the bedrock upon which performance, reliability, and player satisfaction are built. For the Nitrado group, encompassing its leading consumer brands Nitrado and Apex Hosting, and its developer-first multiplayer server orchestration platform, GameFabric, maintaining a technological edge for its diverse playerbase is paramount. This commitment has led to a long-standing, synergistic partnership with Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology. Through close collaboration, Supermicro has consistently enabled the Nitrado group to deploy server hardware precisely engineered to meet the rigorous and manifold demands of modern multiplayer gaming, optimizing both performance and price for players.
 

The Challenge

The Nitrado group operates a vast and complex global infrastructure, delivering game server hosting solutions to millions of gamers and numerous game development studios. This myriad portfolio presents a significant hardware challenge: catering to a wide array of game titles, from CPU-intensive sandbox games to shooters with large player counts, each with unique performance profiles and resource requirements. Nitrado, therefore, needed a hardware partner capable of not just supplying components, but actively collaborating to design and deliver systems tailored to the nuanced needs of game server workloads.
 

The Solution: A Collaborative Blueprint – Supermicro and Nitrado Engineer Synergy

Supermicro has distinguished itself as the Nitrado group’s main and ongoing server hardware provider of choice, a relationship built on deep technical understanding and a shared dedication to innovation. The success of this partnership lies in a truly collaborative engineering process as Nitrado’s experienced infrastructure engineers work closely in concert with Supermicro’s teams to define our necessary and precise server requirements.
 
This close cooperation has resulted in the deployment of specific Supermicro solutions across the Nitrado group’s infrastructure:
 
● Supermicro’s MicroCloud A+ Server AS-3015MR-H8TNR
 

For workloads demanding exceptional single-core throughput, such as those powered by AMD Ryzen™ processors, the Nitrado group leverages Supermicro’s MicroCloud A+ Server AS-3015MR-H8TNR. This compact and powerful 3U MicroCloud system, housing multiple server nodes, is ideal for maximizing processing power in a dense form factor, perfectly suited for game servers where individual core speed is critical for responsive gameplay.
 
 
 
● Supermicro’s CloudDC A+ Server AS-1116CS-TN
 

For high-density deployments and RAM-intensive game servers, particularly those utilizing AMD EPYC™ processors, including the high-frequency F-series which has been uniquely optimized for its 1U chassis through our close collaboration, Supermicro’s CloudDC A+ Server AS-1116CS-TN has proven to be an optimal solution. This 1U server offers an excellent balance of compute, memory, and storage in a highly efficient and scalable design, allowing Nitrado to maximize the number of game instances or support more demanding game worlds per rack unit.
 
Supermicro’s agility and willingness to tailor configurations to Nitrado’s evolving specifications have been instrumental to the group’s infrastructure efforts. This synergy between engineering
teams, fortified by deep hardware expertise, has helped translate Nitrado’s operational needs into tangible, high-performing server solutions that directly and positively impact Nitrado, Apex Hosting, and GameFabric players.
 

Tangible Impact: Optimized Efficiency and Improved Total Cost of Ownership

Nitrado’s collaboration with Supermicro has also yielded operational efficiencies, namely through an improvement of total cost of ownership for the Nitrado group, allowing Nitrado’s engineers to achieve greater server density within their data center racks compared to previous, bulkier chassis solutions.
 
Better rack utilization means optimized use of valuable data center space, power, and cooling resources per hosted game server. When combined with the performance and power efficiency of select AMD CPUs, the overall value of these tailored servers were perfect for Nitrado’s needs. Nitrado can now deliver higher performance per rack unit to its players, a crucial metric in managing its large-scale hosting operations.
 

Building Player-Focused Game Servers, Together

The strategic, ongoing collaboration between the Nitrado group and Supermicro is a cornerstone of Nitrado’s ability to deliver world-class game server hosting and orchestration services. By working hand-in-hand to deploy server hardware precisely tailored to the unique demands of online gaming, this partnership ensures that Nitrado, Apex Hosting, and GameFabric can continue to offer their users access to cutting-edge performance, robust reliability, and optimized efficiency. In an industry where technological excellence is non-negotiable, deep hardware partnerships are fundamental to shipping the future of online gaming experiences to all.
 
 

Supermicro

Supermicro is a global leader in high performance, green computing server technology and innovation. They provide global customers with application-optimized servers and workstations customized with blade, storage, and GPU solutions. Supermicro offers proven reliability, superior design, and one of the industry’s broadest array of product configurations, to fit all computational needs.
 
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Nitrado

Nitrado is the leading global provider of private game server hosting with over two decades of experience in the industry. Through Nitrado and its subsidiary, Apex Hosting, millions of players and community creators enjoy high-quality, reliable game servers across the game industry’s most popular titles. For game studios, Nitrado provides GameFabric, its multiplayer server orchestration platform, and patented, game-specific UDP & TCP DDoS protection through SteelShield.
 
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