TS-2888X Multi-Core Computing
Rendering, Video Editing, Virtual Machines, and AI
The Core. The Power. The Lead.
The Intel® Xeon® W processors in the TS-2888X provide up to 18 cores with 36 threads and up to 4.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, combined with up to 512 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM 2666 MHz memory to deliver rapid workload loading and processing.
INTEL ® XEON ® W PROCESSORS
All-Inclusive computing solution: Integrated storage, computing, and development platforms
The TS-2888X combines performance, computing, and high storage capacity with U.2 SSD drive bays to meet versatile application demands with maximized cost-effectiveness.
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Speedy Rendering | On-the-Fly Video Editing | Virtual Machines | AI Machine Learning |
| The high number of CPU cores and clock speeds provide sufficient resources for rendering tasks, and the support of virtual machines to work with 3ds MAX® and Adobe® After Effects® software makes the TS-2888X an ideal rendering server. | The TS-2888X is capable of unleashing the full potential of 25GbE high-speed networks, and can work with workstations using Adobe® Premiere Pro® and Final Cut Pro® to realize smooth video editing workflows. | Users can run and centrally manage multiple virtual machines for different operation systems (OS) and application servers on the TS-2888X, without additional hardware cost. | The TS-2888X is engineered for machine learning, simplifying and accelerating AI deployment through QNAP’s QuAI computing platform. |
Fulfills video production workflow
From file storage, multi-workstation collaboration, image rendering, to post-production, the TS-2888X can satisfy all your video production needs. The TS-2888X can serve as a highly-reliable, high-performance collaboration file center, greatly improving your team’s productivity and allowing you to focus on creativity and work quality.
Build your own render farm
Slow rendering is a big issue for 3D animators and filmmakers in the creative professional industry. Because rendering is a time-consuming and workload-heavy task in the video production workflow, it can significantly impact project progress. The number of CPU cores and clock speed in the rendering server hardware plays an important role in rendering. To support resource-demanding rendering demands, the TS-2888X features powerful Intel® Xeon® W processors with excellent computing performance and high storage capacity. The TS-2888X can also host virtual machines and containers to run render management systems, such as OpenCue and Deadline from the NAS. Coupled with workstations using Maya, 3ds MAX, Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects, the TS-2888X realizes optimized collaborative rendering workflows.
CPU, memory, and GPUVideo editing and rendering largely rely on CPU cores and threads. The TS-2888X is equipped with Intel® Xeon® W processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, features up to 512 GB memory, and supports up to four high-end graphics cards. | Multiple virtual machinesUse Virtualization Station to create multiple virtual machines on the TS-2888X for dynamic render nodes, and flexibly allocate CPU computing resources to the render nodes running different rendering tasks. |
On-the-fly video editing with 25GbE high-speed network
In the fast-growing content creation industry, the high-capacity TS-2888X is your ideal 4K media center. Users of Final Cut Pro® (Mac users) and Adobe® Premiere Pro® (Windows users) can centrally store, access, and share video materials on the TS-2888X via SMB protocol for highly collaborative projects. By using the PCIe-based 25GbE adapter (QXG-25G2SF-CX4), the TS-2888X can fully take advantage of the 25GbE network performance to accelerate file transfer and tackle team collaboration productivity challenges in the fast-paced media industry.
25GbE / 10GbE networkInstall network expansion cards through PCIe slots to increase network performance for bandwidth-demanding applications, such as online video editing and massive file transfer. | Storage and drive performanceHigh-capacity storage can significantly accommodate RAW files and 4K/8K videos. Hard drive performance influences not only file access speed, but also network performance. The TS-2888X features hybrid storage architecture that provides more flash to balance performance and capacity requirements. |
 | The best companion for Mac Pro®The all-new Mac Pro® is a powerful workstation designed for creative professionals. It empowers a variety of workflows, from video editing, photo editing, to advanced 3D content creation in unprecedented ways. By supporting the SMB protocol, users of Final Cut Pro® (Mac users) and Adobe Premiere Pro® (Window users) can create a library on the TS-2888X and use it as if it were on a local storage device. Mac Pro® users can easily share files with team members, significantly boosting productivity through seamless collaboration. |
Expedite AI machine learning applications
The TS-2888X provides storage, computing, and the development platform required for machine learning to help organizations quickly and easily implement AI applications.
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| Huge Storage Potential | Ready-to-use AI Environment | Powerful Computing | Secure & Private | Comprehensive Backup Solution |
| Data is the key to AI, and the TS-2888X provides the potential for huge capacities to remove the storage bottleneck from AI development. | QNAP’s QuAI computing platform reduces the time and complexity of implementation and management. | The TS-2888X supports multiple graphics cards to empower data-intensive machine learning. | Public cloud training is not suitable for confidential or sensitive data. Keep full control over all your data with the TS-2888X! | Flexible backup tools and snapshot protection assure your data while also allowing efficient disaster recovery. |
Train your AI models with QuAI, and accelerate deep learning inference with OpenVINO™
QNAP’s exclusive QuAI enables data scientists and developers to quickly build, train and optimize machine-learning models running on QNAP NAS. The combination of system and software helps reduce time and complexity for AI environments setup and maintenance. The Intel® OpenVINO™ (Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization) helps to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision and deep learning into vision applications. It enables deep learning on hardware accelerators and easy heterogeneous execution across Intel® platforms, including CPU, GPU, FPGA and VPU. The OpenVINO™ toolkit allows you to optimize and verify trained models developed by the TS-2888X before inferencing, and economically distribute computer vision solutions leveraging AI.
Learn more : QuAI, OpenVINO Workflow Consolidation Tool
Comprehensive support for AI frameworks
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Optimized system for AI
U.2 SSD for data preprocessingData preprocessing can have high memory consumption that potentially impacts system performance. To offload preprocessing workloads, you can install up to four U.2 SSDs in the TS-2888X. | Collect massive training data with Download StationMachine learning requires a large set of data feeds. The QNAP Download Station can help organize downloading tasks for massive training data. For example, you can create and schedule download tasks with Download Station to compile images from Open Images Dataset automatically. | IOPS-optimized storage to boost AI workloadsSSD caching accelerates IOPS performance and reduces storage volume latency, providing many benefits for the metadata-intensive, small file I/O requirements of AI workloads. Qtier™ technology can also empower the TS-2888X with auto-tiering to help strike a balance between performance and storage. Learn more: SSD caching, Qtier |
Making AI accessible to your business blueprint
The TS-2888X integrates AI-focused hardware and software to reduce the time and complexity for implementing and managing AI tasks, making it the ideal AI solution with great cost-efficiency for most organizations and industries.
 Autonomous Vehicles |  Precision Healthcare |  Security & Intelligence |  Smart Manufacturing |  Consumer Retail |
 Life Sciences Research |  Language Processing |  Predictive Analytics |  Financial Services Fraud Detection |  Supply Chain Logistics |
Assure data safety of every moment at any time
 Create multiversion snapshots |  Backup and sync easily |
| Record your system state any time with snapshots. You can easily keep track of the data and system state at any time, and mitigate the risk of losing important data. In the event of malware attacks or unwanted changes, your stored data can be quickly reverted and restored to a specific time point with snapshots to ensure data continuity. Learn more: Snapshot, Mitigate the threat of ransomware | Creating videos and AI datasets is time-consuming, so losing these files can be catastrophic. QNAP HBS can prevent such disasters from occurring with its comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution that can efficiently assist organizations routine backup jobs. You can easily synchronize data in TS-2888X with multiple third-party cloud services or other storage devices to ensure double protection, schedule backup jobs for onsite and offsite backups, and quickly restore data when needed. Learn more: HBS |
 Seamlessly connect local storage with cloud object storage to easily backup local application data to the cloud. |  Enabling local caching on NAS for low-latency access to the connected cloud services. |  Integrated AI algorithm for auto photo organization and a powerful search tool for more intuitive and streamlined photo management. |
Build an affordable Fibre Channel SAN environmentCommon Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Networks) devices are often expensive. Now you have more budge-friendly options to easily add your NAS to a SAN environment. Once a Marvell®, ATTO® or QNAP Fibre Channel card has been installed in the TS-2888X, you can set a Fibre Channel Target using the iSCSI & Fibre Channel app, and leverage the many benefits from QNAP NAS including snapshot protection, Qtier™ tiering storage, SSD cache acceleration and more. In addition, the LUN Masking and Port Binding features provide an additional layer of security for your data. Learn more : QNAP NAS supports Fibre Channel SAN |  |
Leverage the M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD to U.2 Adapter
Install one or more QDA-UMP/QDA-U2MP adapter in the TS-2888X to maximize PCIe bandwidth utilization in a cost-effective way by using M.2 SSD instead of expensive U.2 SSD for optimizing data-intensive applications. It can also boost IOPS performance when configuring SSD caching. Users can monitor drive health and manage SSD usage from the QTS Storage & Snapshots Manager.
Learn more : QDA-UMP, QDA-U2MP
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