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GFLOPS Aplenty: Supermicro's Efficient HPC Blades
Did you know high performance computing is an $11 billion market? News to me too!Supermicro, a server builder for the HPC market, wants to grab a bigger slice of said market with a new blade that the company says sets a new record for plowing through LINPACK. Now that the cost of power is creeping higher on the list of concerns for datacenter operators, they may be onto something...
San Jose,CA-based Supermicro, Inc. today announced x86 blade servers that achieve new levels of performance under tight power requirements. According to the company, its Intel Xeon-powered SuperBlade SBI-7425C blade server can plow through the LINPACK benchmark with a score of 290 GFLOPS per kW.290 GFLOPS doesn't sound too outrageous until you consider that 200 GFLOPS per kW on an x86 system was the performance ceiling not too long ago. So being the first to reach that record is a nice feather in their hat.
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