Tag: gpgpu
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Savtira streams media and apps from the cloud with beefy PowerEdge C combo
Savtira Corporation, who provides outsourced Cloud Commerce solutions, has chosen Dell DCS’s PowerEdge C line of servers and solutions to deliver streamed media and apps from the cloud. Dell’s gear will help power the Savtira Cloud Commerce platform and Entertainment Distribution Network (EDN). With a little help from PowerEdge C, businesses will now be able…
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Now Available, HPC monster machine
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the PowerEdge C6145 system made up of two servers crammed into a 2U enclosure with a total of 96 cores. Today that system officially became available for purchase. Rave reviews This system got a great review in CRN yesterday entitled “Performance Of Dell’s PowerEdge C6145 Rack Server Off…
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NVIDIA: from gaming graphics to High Performance Computing
A few weeks ago a group from NVIDIA was out visiting Dell. Their Tesla series of GPU cards are the primary cards that are used in our newly announced C410X expansion chassis. Filling up the C410X with NVIDIA cards and attaching it to a server can bring about ginormous increases in compute performance, helping to…
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Schlepping a 410x across Austin – A documentary
Last month we introduced the PowerEdge C410X expansion chassis which, when populated with GPGPUs and attached to a server, brings about ginormous increases in performance in a very cost effective manner. A couple weeks after the system debuted NextIO, who creates and sells virtualized IO capabilities, was looking to qualify the machine in their lab located here…
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PowerEdge C410x — Whiteboard topology
In the last of my GPGPU/PowerEdge C410x trilogy I offer up a whiteboard session with the system’s architect, Joe Sekel. Some of the topics Joe walks through: How does having remote GPGPUs connected via cable back to a server compare in performance to having the GPGPUs embedded in the server? The topology of the PCI express x16…
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Deep dive tour(s) of the PowerEdge C410x
In my last entry I talked about the wild and wacky world of GPGPUs and provided an overview of the PowerEdge C410x expansion chassis that we announced today. For those of you who want to go deeper and see how to set up and install this 3U wonder you’ll want to take a look at…
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Say hello to my little friend — packing up to 16 GPGPUs
While the name GPGPU, which stands for General-purpose computing on graphics processing units, doesn’t flow lyrically off the tongue, it’s an extremely powerful concept. What’s the big idea? The idea behind this sexy five letter acronym is to take a graphical process unit (GPU) and expand its use beyond graphics. Through the “simple” addition of programmable…