Microway April 2010 News Brief
Supercomputing News You Can Use
AMD, Intel and NVIDIA have each made major product releases over the past 4 weeks. All are described below and are immediately available in Microway's fully-integrated clusters, servers and WhisperStations. Whether you need a budgetary quote, immediate delivery or technical advice, we are here for you.
We have published a new in-depth technical analysis of GPU architectures and performance -
click here.
Microway will be running life-science applications on NVIDIA Tesla "Fermi" GPUs at
BioIT World Expo.
Visit us in Booth 116 on April 20-22 in Boston.
AMD Opteron 6100-series Processors (formerly "Magny Cours")
Microway's new 2- and 4-socket Navion WhisperStations, servers and clusters introduce the most cost-effective computational platforms ever.
- Up to 48 cores per server with 8 or 12 processor cores per socket
- Up to 512GB memory per server with quad-channel DDR3 1333MHz memory for exceptional throughput
- Four HyperTransport 3.0 (25.6 GB/s) links per socket enable quick, efficient interprocessor communication
- 12MB L3 Cache
- AMD CoolCore, Enhanced C1E state, PowerNow! and CoolSpeed technologies ensure no power is wasted
- Unbelievable pricing: same cost for 2-socket and 4-socket processors
Microway is offering special pricing on 4-socket Opteron servers for the remainder of the month. A 1U SMP server/compute node with 32 processor cores, 32GB memory and two 500GB enterprise drives is just $4,595!
Intel Xeon 5600-series Processors (formerly "Westmere")
Building on the success of the Xeon 5500-series "Nehalem" processors, the new 5600-series Xeons offer increased performance, memory throughput and core counts without increasing power consumption or cost.
- Up to 12 cores per 2P server with 4 or 6 processor cores per socket
- Up to 144GB per server with triple-channel DDR3 1333MHz memory
- 12MB of L3 cache, 6.4GT/sec QPI
- Intel Turbo Boost automatically overclocks processor cores when power and thermal conditions allow
4-Way Xeon SMP Server
Intel Xeon 7500-series Processors (formerly "Nehalem-EX")
Designed for 4-Way SMP Servers
The Xeon 7500-series processors are designed for maximum performance and reliability. Available in 4-socket SMP servers, they provide capabilities never seen before in x86-based servers.
- Up to 32 cores per server with 4, 6 or 8 processor cores per socket
- Up to 512GB per server with quad-channel DDR3 1066MHz memory
- 24MB of L3 cache and 6.4GT/sec QPI
- Intel Turbo Boost automatically overclocks processor cores when power and thermal conditions allow
NVIDIA Tesla C2050 "Fermi" Compute Processors
NVIDIA's long-awaited Tesla GPU based on the Fermi architecture will be released this month. Customers with pre-orders in place will be receiving their cards in the coming weeks. Those considering a Tesla purchase are urged to place their order soon, as the new cards will be delivered on a first-come, first-served basis starting 4/28/2010. C2070, S2050 and S2070 products will be available in Q3 2010.
- 448 CUDA cores provide 515 GFLOPS double- and 1.03 TFLOPS single-precision floating point performance
- 3GB GDDR5 memory with optional ECC provides memory bandwidth of 148 GB/sec
- C2050 matches the thermal envelope of Tesla C1060 cards: 225W TDP
Accelerate your research!
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