IBM 宣布推出基于 NVIDIA Tesla 的 GPU 服务器产品线

Edison

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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IAFCyg

下班之后 就不想看英文了..

gzpony

好像没提在什么平台上。在x86平台的？

鱼儿水中游

完全不知道说的什么

p4northwood

登上舞台了  费米

paulwu1688

好像没提在什么平台上。在x86平台的？
gzpony 发表于 2010-5-18 23:20

    Two Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 series (four or six core) per server (up to 168 per iDataPlex rack) Up to 128 GB of DDR-3 1333 MHz memory per server 2 PCIe 16x Gen 2 I/O slot with support for full-height, full-length card per server, 2 x8 PCIe capabilities

逆袭的黄瓜

好长的鸟语啊

66666

没有详细报价？

Edison

Power7 应该还有许多服务器级别的产品销售，和 GPU 比只是摊分的等级不一样，按理说整个 Power 部门应该还是赚钱的。

hd4770

登上舞台了  费米
p4northwood 发表于 2010-5-18 23:30

Nod nod

Edison

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

传闻 ATC 准备收购 IBM 工厂。

听觉疲劳

传闻 ATC 准备收购 IBM 工厂。
Edison 发表于 2010-5-19 00:08

IBM工艺材料的研发走在世界前列，他的晶圆工厂水平还是停留在45NM阶段。。。

toshibacom

IBM工艺材料的研发走在世界前列，他的晶圆工厂水平还是停留在45NM阶段。。。
听觉疲劳 发表于 2010-5-19 00:11

IBM的45nm应该强于TSMC的40nm。

听觉疲劳

以后IBM专注半导体材料理论研发，让GF接手制造业务，两家紧密合作，对IBM和GF都是件好事！
ATIC ...
⑥訷 发表于 2010-5-19 01:04

你想得太多了，商人本质就是唯利是图，谁都不亲，只亲钱，

zhangling

看了15l才发现那里都有阴谋啊

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

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。

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

回复 21# recollect
X86 服务器是第二阶段战略合作的内容。