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Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, is showcasing the fastest 1U server on the planet, its new, 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016GT-TF-TM2, this week at ISC ‘09 in Hamburg, Germany (booth 310). This massively parallel processing dual-GPU server is the first 1U multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) system with a fully non-blocking architecture. Optimized for performance and reliability, the 6016GT-TF-TM2 supports dual Nehalem CPUs and features two NVIDIA Tesla M1060 GPUs via two Gen2 PCI-Express x16 connections.

“Supermicro’s new 6016GT-TF supercomputing servers, by far the fastest 1U servers in the world, feature multiple x16 non-blocking native Gen2 PCI-Express connectivity to the GPU, highly reliable thermal optimization, and industry-leading power efficiency, making them the first ever truly optimized GPU servers,” said Charles Liang, CEO and President of Supermicro. “These highly parallel, multi-core, multi-GPU systems represent today’s cutting-edge solutions for a wide range of graphics and computationally intensive applications in fields like medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, quantum chemistry, financial simulation, genomics and astrophysics.”

“The importance of GPU Computing in both research and enterprise is growing rapidly,” said Andy Keane, general manager, GPU Computing, NVIDIA. “Supermicro’s innovative Tesla-based 1U server is tightly integrated to provide the highest possible compute density and a uniform building block for large-scale GPU Computing deployments.”

An article talking about Supermicro’s 1u server thats utilizing on board GPUs for processing peformance, they might be an ideal solution and very effective if your application can be written to exploit the GPU for those HPC/grid solutions, I’m off to read up more. I know at one point I’d been speaking with an architect about a similar solution for the desktop, each pc would get a card installed with a GPU and the grid/application could use these GPUs to do the process, the challenge at the time was the cost of the cards, coupled with the application code compatability as well as a little debate about sign-off/segregation of platforms.

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