Released by Intel in 1998, IPMI is a hardware management interface operating independently of the OS. Our latest blog post by Kieran looks at INTEL IPMI vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

Vulnerabilities include authentication bypasses, credential leaks, and buffer overflows, particularly in Supermicro systems.

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/backdoor-in-the-backplane-doing-ipmi-security-better/

Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers” - During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "person... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/nvidia-announces-dgx-desktop-personal-ai-supercomputers/ #personalaisupercomputer #machinelearning #desktopaipc #jensenhuang #dgxstation #supermicro #desktoppc #nvidiadgx #nvidiagtc #dgxspark #biz⁢ #lenovo #nvidia #aigpu #tech #asus #dell #gpus #dgx #ai #hp

NVIDIA pide explicaciones a Super Micro por vender GPU H100 en China a pesar de las sanciones https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/01/nvidia-pide-explicaciones-super-micro-vender-gpu-h100-china.html #estadosunidos #restricciones #supermicro #nvidia #china #h100 #gpu

X14 servers from Supermicro offer maximum power and acceleration to support HPC workloads, large-scale AI training, LLMs, simulation, and more
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/Supermicro-Offers-Max-Performance-X14-Servers-Optimized-for-AI-and-HPC
#HPC #server #performance #X14 #LLM #AI #Supermicro

Four #nVidia RTX 2080TI GPUs modded with 22GiB of VRAM each installed into the #Supermicro SuperServer 4028GR-TRT2. Hopefully getting these GPUs were the right choice instead of two RTX 3090 cards for the same price. #homelab #LLM #llama #proxmox

The Super Micro (SuperMicro or SUPERMICRO in some places) saga began one day when I needed a motherboard and they sold cheap PCs and motherboards. It was flaky - I think it kept resetting itself - so I went to their HQ to see if I could get it fixed or replaced.

It was a very small operation. Mom & pop. The engineer there was attentive. I got my problem solved. Somewhere I have that motherboard.

If I hadn't gone there then, where would they be now? Butterfly wings. You may thank me by throwing money.

Today they are an Nvidia AI vendor that dropped from $70,000,000,000 in stock valuation to $20,000,000,000. WHAT???

That tiny operation proves that you should never give up on your dreams!!

And also that you should sell your stock sooner.

https://mstdn.social/@cnbc_rss/113403078462528324

heise online: Kein Vertrauen mehr in #Supermicro: Wirtschaftsprüfer EY legt Mandat nieder https://www.heise.de/news/Kein-Vertrauen-mehr-in-Supermicro-Wirtschaftspruefer-EY-legt-Mandat-nieder-10000012.html
Aktie 30% runter. Auf Jahressicht ist die Aktie erstaunlicherweise immer noch knapp 40% im Plus …

Seems #Supermicro has not yet released some updated BMC firmware to fix #CVE-2024-36435
since July 2024.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36435

Reuters: US Justice Department probes Super Micro Computer, WSJ reports

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-justice-department-probes-super-micro-computer-wsj-reports-2024-09-26/

I went down the #ebay #ebitch hole last week, and found a #computer #workstation with a #Supermicro X8DA3 #Motherboard and a #Tableau T3458is #tableau #forensic Bridge

Shipping across the continent though - and how do you think it was packed?

#poorly

The damage to the plastic top of the workstation case, which is now falling off - though still connected by the wires going to the #USB & #firewire ports in the lid. Some loose cables and screws fell out when opening the case.

Reached out to the seller for #return and they offered to send a replacement. Waiting to see what is next...

I can't figure out what's wrong with my EFI boot setup. I have several Dell servers, and they boot fine from a SATA SSD via UEFI.

But my SuperMicro X9SCM-F (latest BIOS) doesn't like it. I can boot via MBR (legacy BIOS) without problems. And UEFI will find, and boot from, a USB CD-ROM (NetBSD iso image), and can also boot into the built-in UEFI console, but doesn't like my SSD.

Is there more to it than having a gpt with a 1MB-aligned FAT-formatted partition of type "efi", which contains "efi/boot/bootx64.efi", the latter being the NetBSD EFI bootloader?

That always seems to be have done the trick on other machines, but not this one. Maybe someone has an idea or can ask the right question.

Thanks.

Please boost.

#EFI #UEFI #boot #BIOS #Supermicro #NetBSD #homelab #server #efiboot #uefiboot #SuperMicroX9SCM

Any idea why the hardware information on my #supermicro board is kind of inaccurate?

#Stories from the #trenches...

Ran a #Debian apt dist-upgrade on my #Proxmox server before moving it from a shared #network cabinet at the #colocation facility in #LA to my personal cabinet, thinking that when I booted it up it'll be up to date from the last reboot months ago. When I discovered the LACP bundle wasn't coming up for it, I found it sitting at the infamous (initramfs) prompt. Apparently #Linux #Kernel 6.8 removed support for #LSI SAS1068E cards, or at least was very unhappy with it. At the moment I am stuck with kernel 6.5 until I either blast off this #Supermicro X9 server entirely, or get an LSI 9311-8i + SAS cables.

For the cost of upgrading the CPUs, quadrupling the RAM, getting that LSI card + cables, and swapping the 2x10G NIC for a 2x40G NIC at $420, I could get an X10 box on #eBay with almost the same specs, and if I double that to $1000 I could aim for an X11-based box. Decisions, decisions, although the most important one for now is to put off such unnecessary purchases until I land my next job.

NEW VIDEO - My New Server Is Here!

#supermicro #homelab #freebsd #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/Zbz9I6l35qM?si=ZZcUvIz0JZ62TZ-w via @YouTube

Wow. I have never seen such a long lspci output as with this #supermicro X10DRi-T.

Anyone knows why the hardware overview in the #supermicro #ipmi interface doesn't match with the actual configuration? I swapped CPUs and added a bunch more memory.