IBM 宣布推出基于 NVIDIA Tesla 的 GPU 服务器产品线

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Nvidia (NSDQ:NVDA) scored a victory for its GPU-computing agenda Tuesday with the news that IBM (NYSE:IBM) will be building the first volume server  based on Tesla graphics processors from a top computer manufacturer.

The forthcoming IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3 systems will be equipped with a pair of Nvidia’s Tesla M2050 GPUs to go along with a dual-CPU configuration, according to Sumit Gupta, senior manager of Nvidia’s Tesla GPU Computing HPC business unit.

“This is the first time that GPUs are part of a mainstream, high-volume product line from a Tier 1 OEM,” said Gupta, who is responsible for business development around Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia’s CUDPro-Agramming language for GPUs and CUDA-based GPU computing products.

“We’ve been talking about momentum for a long time with CUDA. A number of textbooks have now been written about how to program a GPU, whether it’s CUDA or OpenCL,” Gupta said. “This is a pretty good achievement, considering the programming language is only three years old.”

The iDataPlex dx360 M3 servers from Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM are intended for high-performance compute installations and deliver a number of performance gains over CPU-based iDataPlex systems, according to Nvidia. The integration of the Tesla parts delivers a 10x increase in performance per node and 65 percent lower acquisitions over previous-generation iDataPlex servers, the graphics chip maker said.

“Supercomputing is changing -- from CPU-based clusters to massively parallel GPU-based clusters -- and this change is greatly accelerated by IBM’s adoption of GPUs in its new iDataPlex servers,” said Andy Keane, general manager of the Tesla business at Nvidia.

Gupta said Nvidia anticipated that the world’s top supercomputers would all utilize GPUs in the coming months. He said GPU computing and the CUDPro-Agramming language were already very useful computational tools in specific areas like oil and gas exploration, financial modeling and supercomputing at universities, but that was only the beginning.

“We’re kind of a startup here. We’re building a business around some key markets. The medical imaging market is interesting, for example, because they have really interesting problems. The CT scanners need to reduce the dosage they’re giving patients, which means they need to use more computational time for rendering CT scans,” he said.

Tackling such problems by sharply slashing rendering times through parallel programming on GPUs was a clear path forward, Gupta said.

Universities around the world are seeing the benefits of GPU computing, he added. More than 335 universities around the world now teach CUDA GPU programming and Nvidia’s CUDA developer toolkit has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, according to the company.

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gzpony

binbin想买专业tesla卡？

binbin

全部记号

asdfjkl

IBM推出Tesla产品说明NV多年的并行计算终于获得市场认可。但Fermi在GPGPU上出彩并不能掩盖目前其对应图形产 ...
NV30F0 发表于 2010-5-19 20:59

对头，希望一下DX11显卡及早发布，价格也亲民一点；
现在的HD57xx性能实在一般，发热量不大，那些显卡厂家硬是把散热弄的很花哨。

NV30F0

IBM推出Tesla产品说明NV多年的并行计算终于获得市场认可。但Fermi在GPGPU上出彩并不能掩盖目前其对应图形产品线缺乏竞争的窘境，如何协调Tesla产品和GPU图形业务个人认为仍旧是个难题。

asdfjkl

这是GPU第一次被大批量使用在一线厂商产品中！
The integration of the Tesla parts delivers a 10x incre ...
⑥訷 发表于 2010-5-18 23:45

NB公司可不是赚钱我就做的，而是能不能按目标的比例（IBM**利率。。。）赚到钱，才会决定我做不做；

nanshan

NVIDIA宣布，IBM已经为其最新款高性能计算(HPC)服务器配备了Fermi新架构的Tesla 20系列高性能计算处理器，这 ...
马由 发表于 2010-5-19 10:10

这样的服务器都是整体散热的，暴力风扇转起来呜呜的

而且系统有整体温控测试，不用担心的

Asuka

“生产”？IBM最赚钱的“服务”会卖否
slr 发表于 2010-5-19 09:44

IBM就是美国国企，核心竞争力（或者说政治任务）从来都是“生产”

gzpony

热设计功耗225W，采用纯铜底座、五条纯铜热管、大量鳍片组成被动静音散热器

这么大的散热量还能用被动静音散热啊。

不过2U3U服务器用静音散热好像意思不大，通常这类的服务器都吵得很

骨刺

NV已经走上第二条路了 自家的民用级视觉效果 感觉要被NV边缘化了

slr

Cell已经取消很久了。
IBM 的X86 服务器正在逐步转为联想生产，也许很快会正式宣布转让。
tomsmith123 发表于 2010-5-19 08:16

“生产”？IBM最赚钱的“服务”会卖否

疯间

近日Nvidia公司得意地宣布IBM公司的iData Plex系列服务器产品中将开始配用Nvidia公司的Tesla 20系列GPGPU显卡产品，Nvidia方面宣称这还是Tesla产品首度打入主流高性能计算服务器系统。




Nvidia公司负责Tesla产品业务的总经理Andy Keane表示：“IBM在旗下的高性能运算服务器上配备我们的Tesla产品，为这款产品画下了浓墨重彩的一笔。从现在开始，世界各地的科学家们终于可以用上由顶级厂商IBM公司提供的基于CUDA技术的Tesla产品。”

IBM宣称其iDataPlex dx360 M3服务器主要面向”高性能数据中心应用，服务器在体积，功耗以及散热性能方面表现相当出色“。系统支持最多两块6核Intel至强5600处理器（3.06GHz），两块Tesla显卡，DDR3-1333内存容量则可达128GB，最多可配备8块2.5寸硬盘（2U机型）或12块3.5寸硬盘（3U机型），系统还支持10Gbit以太网，光纤通道，并可支持160-320GB容量的PCI-E接口SSD硬盘。

这次iDataPlex dx360 M3服务器中所配的Tesla卡型号为Tesla M2050,为单GPU设计，峰值双精度浮点运算能力高达515GFLOPS，单精度浮点运算能力为1.03TFLOPS，卡上配备3GB GDDR5显存，显存位宽384bit，显存峰值带宽148GB/s，显卡最大功耗则为225W。

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原文：techreport

Asuka

IBM卖掉工厂？

不要做梦，最多是某种形式的融资合作罢了，半导体工艺是IBM的命根子，而且这是一个政治问题，不仅仅是经济问题，比什么破软件重要多了

tomsmith123

回复 21# recollect
X86 服务器是第二阶段战略合作的内容。

recollect

Cell已经取消很久了。
IBM 的X86 服务器正在逐步转为联想生产，也许很快会正式宣布转让。
tomsmith123 发表于 2010-5-19 08:16

不是只出售了PC业务吗?

tomsmith123

Cell已经取消很久了。
IBM 的X86 服务器正在逐步转为联想生产，也许很快会正式宣布转让。

slr

信6神你就输了。

PS：看在这次鸟文只有一页的份上读了一遍。窃以为IBM不会在POWER平台上采用，powerXcell好久没见提了

zhangling

看了15l才发现那里都有阴谋啊