The revolutionary NVIDIA Pascal architecture is purpose-built to be the engine of computers that learn, see, and simulate our world - making it the perfect GPU backbone for the 1028GQ-TXR and ensuring it is a contender for the title of ‘world’s fastest deep learning appliance’.
Introducing the world's first Pascal-ready GPU server- the Boston ANNA Pascal - with support for up to 4x NVIDIA Tesla P100 (codename Pascal) GPUs.
The revolutionary NVIDIA® Pascal™ architecture is purpose-built to be the engine of computers that learn, see, and simulate our world - making it the perfect GPU backbone for the 1028GQ-TXR and ensuring it is a contender for the title of 'world's fastest deep learning appliance'.
Powered by four ground-breaking technologies with discontinuous jumps in performance, Tesla P100 enables lightning fast nodes to deliver the highest absolute performance for HPC and deep learning workloads with infinite computing needs.
One of the most interesting features of Pascal is the new NVLink interconnect system. When using a standard multi-GPU configuration with a PCI-E switch, the limited PCI-E bandwidth to the CPU memory is shared between GPU's. The link will become even more saturated when peer-topeer GPU traffic is factored in. NVLink addresses this problem by providing a high-speed 80Gb/s interconnect path wholly devoted to peer GPU-to-GPU connections. Combining this with RDMA via Infiniband or Omnipath provides the most powerful possible parallel computing environment. As shown below with the increase in performance compared to the previous generation K80 GPUs.
Boston's industry leading server is a masterclass of server design and innovation, creating a streamlined architecture which eliminates complex cabling and GPU pre-heat for maximum airflow, cooling and performance-per-watt. In addition to the 4 GPUs, the 1U server provides 4 x PCI-E Gen 3 slots for InfiniBand or Omnipath allowing strong RDMA performance.
Applications
CFD
Deep Learning
Molecular Dynamics
Simulations
Voice/Image/Pattern recognition
BIOS Features
ACPI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0
APM 1.2
DMI 2.3
PCI 2.3
Plug and Play (PnP)
SMBIOS 2.7.1
UEFI
USB keyboard support
BIOS Type
128MB SPI Flash with AMI UEFI
Buttons
Power On/Off button
System Reset button
Certifications
80 plus Titanium
Chipset
Intel C612
Colour
Black
CPU Family
Intel Xeon
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Model
Intel Xeon Processor E5-2667 v4
CPU Quantity (Installed)
2
CPU Socket
Dual Socket R3 (LGA 2011)
CPU Speed
3.2 GHz
Drive Bays
2 x 2.5" Hot-swap drive bays
2 x 2.5" Internal
Error Detection
Corrects single-bit errors
Expansion Slots
1 x PCI-E 3.0 x8 Low-profile slot
3 x PCI-E 3.0 x16
Form Factor
1U
GPU Model
TESLA P100 ACCELERATOR SMX
GPU Quantity
4
Input/Output
1 x Header
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
1 x VGA port
2 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
2 x USB 3.0 ports
6 x SATA3 (6Gbps) ports
IPMI
Aspeed AST2400 BMC
IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN and KVM-over-LAN support
Support for Intelligent Platform Management Interface v.2.0
LED indicators
Power Fail / Overheat LED
Suspend static indicator LED
UID LED
Manufacturer
Boston
Memory (Installed)
128GB
Memory Sizes
16GB
Memory Speed
2400MHz
Memory Type
ECC DDR4 SDRAM 72-bit
Memory Voltage
1.2V
Network Adapter
Intel i350 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet
Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output
Virtual Machine Device Queues reduce I/O overhead
Power Supply
2000W redundant digital power supplies w/ PMBus
Product Range
Boston Venom
SATA Controller
SATA 3.0 6Gb/s with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
SSD's (Installed)
2 x Samsung Enterprise SSD SM863 960GB SATA
System Bus
QPI up to 9.6 GT/s
System Cooling
7 x 4cm heavy duty counter-rotating fans with air shroud & optimal fan speed control
To help our clients make informed decisions about new technologies, we have opened up our research & development facilities and actively encourage customers to try the latest platforms using their own tools and if necessary together with their existing hardware. Remote access is also available
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