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2010-10-11 11:25:55


HP creates GPU server for high-performance needs


HP has introduced a three-GPU blade server that plugs into a modular chassis to provide up to one teraflop of computing per rack unit.

The ProLiant SL390s server is a "completely new architecture" with a form factor explicitly designed for the new SL6500 Scalable System chassis, Mark Potter, HP's general manager for industry standard servers, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. It is HP's first server to have been wholly designed around GPU (graphics processing unit) functionality, according to the company.

According to HP, one SL390s with three GPUs can in practice handle a teraflop's worth of calculations. Its theoretical maximum is around 1.6 teraflops. At a launch event in Barcelona, the company demonstrated one 2U SL390s delivering a teraflop while running the Linpack benchmark, which is used to compile the Top500 supercomputing list.


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2011-08-21 18:04:31

Intel thinks 10 per cent of servers will run Atom chips by 2015



Dylan Larson, director of the Xeon platform at Intel told journalists that the days of designing chips with higher frequencies and greater numbers of cores might be coming to an end, with Intel's customers looking at 'extreme density'. Larson said that by 2015 he expects that single socket 'microservers' will make up 10 per cent of the server market.

Larson said, "The market is moving beyond two and four socket and into extreme density with 'microservers' that use power efficient processors." As for what chips will end up in those servers, it could be Atom, but Larson said it won't be an Atom in its current form, saying that it will need to have features such as ECC memory support.

Whether Intel slaps a Xeon label on its Atom processor or not, the server chip market seems to be following the consumer chip trend of shying away from large monolithic chips.


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