Thinkmate Edge CDI Cluster

Flexible, High-Performance Computing at the Edge

With edge data growing faster than ever, organizations need high-performance computing to gain insights and enable advanced functionality where the data is generated. Deploying AI and HPC workloads outside traditional data centers, however, presents unique challenges. Conventional high-performance systems are often too large, power-hungry, or environmentally sensitive for constrained locations. Footprint limitations, vibration, heat, dust, moisture, and strict power constraints have historically made edge deployments difficult.

Many edge sites—such as offshore platforms, naval ships, remote research stations, or military installations—also have limited or no network connectivity, making dependence on costly public cloud infrastructure impractical. These conditions leave a critical gap for bare-metal accelerated computing that can operate reliably in physically restricted, harsh environments.

The Thinkmate Edge CDI Cluster is purpose-built to bridge this gap. It delivers flexible system configurations optimized for size- and power-constrained locations, providing bare-metal performance for AI, HPC, and machine learning workloads without virtualization overhead. By overcoming environmental, footprint, and power limitations, the Edge CDI Cluster enables organizations to process critical workloads locally, with low latency, high efficiency, and enterprise-grade performance.

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Key Features

  • High-density compute servers
  • Extreme capacity JBODs and JBOXs
  • Seamlessly scalable and ready to deploy into diverse operating environments
  • Independently scale PCIe-connected resources (GPU, FPGAs, NVMe storage, etc.)
  • Available with rugged and MIL-SPEC rack designs

Ideal Use Cases

  • Edge (space, power, environmental)
  • Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning / Inference
  • Weather modeling
  • Image processing
  • Processing sensor data
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Relevant Industries

  • Government
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Logistics
  • Oil & Gas

What Is CDI?

Composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) leverages PCIe-based low latency interconnects to enable dynamically provisioned systems. This lets system administrators pool resources like CPUs, accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs), memory, or storage without physical reconfiguration. Similarly, resources can be expanded, reduced, or refreshed on the fly.

  • Dynamically Provision Systems

    • By disassociating components from their physical location in a server within a cluster, unique hardware platforms can be spun up through software alone. This means users can optimally leverage available resources instead of relying on whatever node architecture is available.
  • Scale Resources as Needed

    • The CDI Edge Cluster lets IT managers and system administrators change the way they think of resource procurement. By disaggregating hardware, CDI Edge Clusters can grow in whatever way your team needs, without unnecessary extra costs.
  • Cloud-like Flexibility with Local Performance

    • Since CDI technology does not virtualize systems, there is no performance loss on the CDI Edge Cluster when compared to a similarly equipped traditional HPC or AI cluster. Meanwhile, the software-managed, dynamically composable nodes maintain the ‘on-demand’ nature of the cloud many users have grown accustomed to.

A Choice of CDI Software

Liqid CDI

Liqid composable infrastructure enables users to build a living datacenter architecture that adapts to meet their business needs and scales as required. Leveraging cutting-edge NVMe-over-flash networking technology, along with Liqid Command Center resource orchestration software, Liqid users can disassociate their resources from their physical server configuration, creating pooled resources that can be composed in new configurations on the fly. This flexibility is paired with powerful improvements in performance, optimization, and efficiency.

GigaIO

GigaIO is an enterprise-class, open standard composable infrastructure solution. GigaIO FabreX breaks the constraints of old static architectures, opening new configuration possibilities with composable disaggregated infrastructure, to maximize utilization of all the elements within your racks.


Supported Software & AI Frameworks

We build each of our systems to “zero defect” standards in our U.S.-based manufacturing facilities. Then we hand inspect every order, testing them to ensure they are 100% operational and optimized to support rapid deployment.