HP introduced new entrants to its existing line of ProLiant processors that deliver unprecedented performance levels. Adding feathers to its cap, the new line of servers claims to accelerate research for leading government, academic and industrial institutions. HP also claims that its HP ProLiant Gen8 servers have helped scientific institutions to do research faster and thus has earned itself a spot in the TOP500 list of the world’s highest performing supercomputers.
Scientific researchers who perform tasks that involves a lot of calculation like modeling, weather forecasting, oil exploration or genetic research consume a large amount of data which in turn require massive amount of computational power and energy resources. At the same time, they need systems that should be able to perform these tasks using the minimum amount of power and footprint. The HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are adept for this sort of functionality and usage.
The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen 8 server features the HP ProActive Insight Architecture for an automated, accelerated and optimized server environment. This makes it reach higher performance levels than ever before.
Featuring the built-in HP 3-D Sea of Sensors technology, the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers assist clients in identifying over-utilized servers on the basis of location, power, workload and temperature data. This will in turn help them to increase efficiency and at the same time reduce operational costs. The HP active health system automates troubleshooting across the system, eliminating tedious administrative tasks and speeding health problem analysis and its resolution.
“As the most powerful GPU supercomputer available through the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program, Keeneland provides our scientists tremendous compute resources to support their advanced research applications,” said Dr. Jeffrey Vetter, project director, Keeneland, Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The capabilities of HP ProLiant Gen8 servers coupled with the NVIDIA GPUs provide the extreme computational performance necessary for our researchers to create breakthroughs in many fields of science.”
But how does the HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 meet the High Performance Computing (HPC) demand? Firstly, it provides maximized processor density, which means more power in a smaller footprint. Secondly, it has the capacity to support up to eight Intel® Xeon PhiTM coprocessors or eight NVIDIA® KeplerTM graphic processor units (GPUs) per server. This allows clients to select the best accelerator or coprocessor for their specific workloads.
0 comments:
Post a Comment