Cisco UCS C845A M8 AI & GPU Server

The Cisco UCS C845A M8 delivers flexible GPU compute for AI and accelerated workloads in enterprise rack environments. Its PCIe GPU platform supports scalable inference and fine-tuning while helping teams avoid overcommitting to a larger AI system.

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Cisco UCS C845A M8 Overview

As accelerated workloads spread across more services, infrastructure teams need GPU capacity that can scale without adding unnecessary platform sprawl.

Flexible GPU Compute for Production Workloads

The Cisco UCS C845A M8 is a rack server for AI inference, fine-tuning, visual computing and model development in environments that need configurable accelerated compute.

Built on the EPYC 5th Gen processor platform, it supports up to 8 GPUs, 4 TB of memory and PCIe 5.0 connectivity for workloads that need balanced compute and expansion headroom.

Designed for Managed Scale

That combination gives platform teams a practical way to host GPU-intensive services in a standard rack footprint, while keeping procurement and lifecycle planning aligned to actual workload demand.

Operational Outcomes That Fit the Stack

It helps reduce the need to overcommit to the largest accelerator nodes, while supporting a more repeatable approach to deployment, refresh and capacity growth.

Our team can help you assess whether the Cisco UCS C845A M8 fits your AI and accelerated infrastructure plans.

Cisco UCS C845A M8 Key Features​

Cisco UCS C845A M8 is an enterprise server platform for data center deployments, designed to support demanding compute environments with a balanced architecture for modern infrastructure and workload consolidation.

Accelerate Compute Density

EPYC 5th Gen Platform
The server is built on EPYC 5th Gen processors to support high-performance enterprise compute in data center environments.

Multi-GPU Expansion
The platform supports up to 8 GPUs to address accelerated computing and graphics-intensive workload requirements.

High-Capacity Memory Architecture
The system supports up to 4 TB of memory to enable larger in-memory workloads and broader consolidation headroom.

UCS Server Form Factor
The Cisco UCS platform design aligns compute resources for enterprise deployment within standardized infrastructure environments.

Support Operational Control

Infrastructure Standardization
The UCS platform model supports consistent server deployment and operational alignment across enterprise data center estates.

Workload Consolidation
The server architecture is suited to consolidating compute, GPU, and memory resources within a single system footprint.

Enterprise Deployment Fit
The platform is intended for data center use where scalable server capacity and controlled infrastructure design are required.

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When your environment needs scalable compute with GPU and memory headroom, our team can help align the Cisco UCS C845A M8 to your data center requirements.

Cisco UCS C845A M8 Technical Specifications

Full specifications for this model are listed below.

Additional information

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Cisco UCS C845A M8 Deployment Scenarios

The Cisco UCS C845A M8 is a GPU compute server for enterprise teams running AI inference, fine-tuning, visualisation and other accelerated workloads. It fits rack-scale environments that need configurable accelerator capacity without moving straight to the largest training node.

Data centre AI inference and analytics clusters

In shared data centre platforms, the UCS C845A M8 supports inference, visual analytics and selected fine-tuning jobs where teams need repeatable GPU capacity, controlled growth and simpler lifecycle handling across virtualised and private cloud estates.

Manufacturing digital twin and plant analytics platforms

Manufacturing teams can place this server behind vision systems, digital twin applications and predictive maintenance pipelines that need local accelerator capacity. Its flexible GPU sizing helps avoid fragmented server sprawl across plants and edge-connected workloads.

Healthcare imaging and clinical analytics environments

For imaging AI, research analysis and clinical application support, the UCS C845A M8 provides the GPU headroom needed to shorten processing queues while keeping management practical for IT teams balancing security, refresh cycles and constrained staffing.

Finance risk, fraud and regulated application estates

Financial services teams can use this platform for risk modelling, fraud detection, simulation and analytics jobs that require scheduled accelerator access. It gives infrastructure teams a controlled rack server for regulated applications, VDI and transaction-adjacent systems.

Software development and shared ML engineering labs

Development organisations need GPU resources that can be reprovisioned as projects change. The UCS C845A M8 supports build systems, test environments, containers and AI-assisted development without constant hardware changes or unmanaged one-off servers.

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