Category Archives: Hardware

SC13 Highlights

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jan Smith

If you asked around at SC this year, some attendees might have told you there wasn’t much new going on. It’s true that not every company was launching new hardware with 2X performance, but there were significant announcements. Some are … Continue reading →

NVIDIA Tesla K40 “Atlas” GPU Accelerator (Kepler GK110b) Up Close

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

NVIDIA’s latest Tesla accelerator is without a doubt the most powerful GPU available. With almost 3,000 CUDA cores and 12GB GDDR5 memory, it wins in practically every* performance test you’ll see. As with the “Kepler” K20 GPUs, the Tesla K40 … Continue reading →

Intel Xeon E5-2600v2 “Ivy Bridge” Processor Review

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

With the introduction of Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600v2 processors, there are exciting new choices for HPC users. Overall, the Xeon E5-2600 series processors have provided the highest cost-effective HPC performance available to date. This new set of models builds upon … Continue reading →

Intel Xeon Phi 7120P “Knights Corner” x86 Coprocessor Up Close

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

Currently, Intel’s premier Xeon Phi product is the 7120P. It offers the most cores, the fastest clock speed, the most memory and the greatest performance. We’ve got these cards running in our lab – here’s a photo: The Phi 7120 … Continue reading →

NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerator (Kepler GK110) Up Close

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

NVIDIA’s Tesla K20 GPU is currently the de facto standard for high-performance heterogeneous computing. Based upon the Kepler GK110 architecture, these are the GPUs you want if you’ll be taking advantage of the latest advancements available in CUDA 5.0 and … Continue reading →

MicInfo: Intel Xeon Phi 5110P and 3120A Up Close

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

Earlier this year, we discussed the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors at a high level. I wanted to provide more details on the internals of these coprocessors. For now, it’s best if Linux is your operating system of choice when … Continue reading →

Intel Xeon Phi Delivers New Roads to Increased HPC Performance

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Eliot Eshelman

The Intel® Xeon® Phi™ is the first x86-based accelerator for heterogeneous HPC environments. A parallel coprocessor with 60 x86 compute cores, Xeon Phi 5110P delivers over 1 TFLOPS of double precision floating point performance. Based upon the Many Integrated Core … Continue reading →

Nvidia Maximus set to Revolutionize Workstation Computing

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Microway

You may have heard the buzz about Nvidia’s Maximus technology. While the buzz has been around for a little while, the latest product release has been worth the wait. The essence of Maximus is the unification of the driver base … Continue reading →

Software Support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Brett Newman

With Intel’s release of the Xeon Phi coprocessor cards, HPC users must ask themselves how much performance they need and how they plan to achieve it. Will resources be devoted towards fast new hardware, re-writing/optimizing software or some balance of … Continue reading →

NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Accelerator (Kepler GK104) Up Close

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Eliot Eshelman

NVIDIA is now shipping their 4.58 TFLOPS single-precision floating point GPUs. The Tesla K10 GPU Accelerators, based upon the Kepler GK104 architecture, are the first Teslas available from this new generation of products. They are designed for single-precision float-point applications, … Continue reading →