TMCnet News
AMAX Rolls with New HPC Computing SolutionsMay 08, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- AMAX, a storage system builder in North America, is launching a new series of parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster solutions to solve the world's most important computing challenges - more quickly and accurately - utilizing the Nvidia Tesla, teraflop, many-core processor technology. With 240 cores per processor and a complete suite of developer tools (C Compiler, debugger, performance profiler, and optimized libraries), AMAX's highly scalable and energy efficient Tesla HPC cluster solutions provide a platform for accelerating applications. The company said the AMAX solutions deliver massive processing computing power that was previously available only to scientists, engineers and other technical professionals utilizing very costly supercomputers. The life sciences, geosciences, engineering & sciences, molecular biology, medical diagnostics, electronic design automation (EDA), government and defense, visualization, financial modeling, and oil & gas applications will run far more quickly and accurately with these AMAX solutions. Features of AMAX's Tesla HPC cluster solutions include: - Up to 17x lower cost, 21x lower power consumption, and 60 percent less space than traditional 1U servers - Up to 86.94 Teraflops of single precision performance and 7,266 Gigaflops of double precision performance per cluster - Up to 336GB dedicated GPU memory and 8,568GB/sec memory bandwidth - QDR InfiniBand fabric - Real time InfiniBand diagnostics - Nvidia CUDA technology unlocks the power of Tesla many-core computing products - A suite of developer tools (C-compiler, debugger, performance profiler, optimized libraries) "AMAX is proud to be working closely with technology partners such as Nvidia to deliver best-in-class, high performance Nvidia Tesla cluster solutions that address customers' most demanding HPC applications and I/O requirements," said James Huang, Product Marketing Manager of AMAX. "Our Tesla platform represents one of the most significant product innovations of the high-performance computing industry." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |