AIC’s F2026: Compact, DPU-Ready AI Storage Platform Powers World-Leading MLPerf™ Use Case

[Taipei, Taiwan – August 19, 2025] AIC, a global leader in enterprise storage and server platforms, today announced the latest success of its high-density F2026 2U JBOF, a PCIe Gen 5 architecture with DPU-enabled platform designed for next-generation AI and high-performance computing workloads.

With capacity for up to 26 x 2.5” NVMe drives in just 2U of rack space, advanced baseboard management (BMC) for proactive monitoring, and flexible DPU integration supporting NVIDIA® BlueField® and other vendors, the F2026 is built to deliver exceptional performance density, scalability, and energy efficiency.

“F2026 – AIC’s latest innovation for AI storage, delivering scalability, efficiency, and MLPerf-validated performance.”

One of the latest real-world validations of the F2026’s capabilities comes from ExponTech, a leader in AI-native enterprise storage platforms. In the MLPerf™ Storage v2.0 benchmark, ExponTech deployed a single AIC F2026 configured with 24 ScaleFlux CSD 5000 SSDs and four NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs. This compact yet powerful configuration achieved:

• #1 global ranking in ResNet-50 training bandwidth, reaching 23.6 GiB/s per client.
• Support for 700+ A100 GPU cards and around 400 H100 GPU cards in training scenarios.

• Sustained 96%+ GPU utilization during AI workloads.

Thanks to its flexible architecture and proven real-world performance, the F2026 can scale to 1,024 nodes, delivering EB-scale capacity and hundreds of TB/s throughput for large-scale AI training, LLM checkpointing, and enterprise HPC.

“The F2026 exemplifies how smart hardware design can redefine performance per rack unit,” said Michael Liang, Chairman and CEO at AIC. “ExponTech’s MLPerf-certified results show how our platform enables partners to deliver world-class AI storage solutions — efficiently and at scale.”

The official MLPerf™ Storage v2.0 results are available at: https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/storage

About AIC

AIC is a global leader in server and storage solutions. With nearly 30 years of expertise in high-density storage servers, storage server barebones, and high-performance computers, AIC has expanded into AI storage and AI edge appliances, achieving significant market recognition for our branded products. For more information, visit www.aicipc.com or contact sales@aicipc.com.

About MLPerf™

MLPerf™ is the most influential international AI performance benchmark, co-founded by Turing Award winner David Patterson together with Google, Stanford University, Harvard University, and other leading academic institutions. In 2023, MLPerf™ introduced the Storage benchmark to provide a fair, impartial, and transparent standard for measuring storage system performance under AI workloads.