IBM to Do Nvidia Fermi-filled BladeCenter Server
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Serious business for these GPUs.
Owners of the latest Nvidia graphics cards know that Fermi is pretty great at pushing pixels, but GPUs these days have some fairly strong industrial purposes too.
At the GPU Technology Conference last month, an Nvidia Fermi-based IBM server expansion blade was on display. It hasn't yet been formally announced, but it appears to be a single Fermi GPU (perhaps of Quadro variety) with 6GB of RAM that'll fit into a BladeCenter chassis of the E, H, and S varieties.
Check out more from the video below from Gabriel Consulting, along with the report on the Register.
IBM Making Fermi-filled Blade Server
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Except for the dudes with the bills to pay. It's going to bother them.
And with a more dense, powerful computing solution in your data center, your server count could be decreased, so actually saving cost if you look at the bigger picture.
I wouldn't be concerned with heat, the blades have a proper heatsink, and in the future this could be upgraded to cooler versions of GPU's.
E - Edible Hot
H - Hot
S - Super Hot
Except for the dudes with the bills to pay. It's going to bother them.
I wouldn't be concerned with heat, the blades have a proper heatsink, and in the future this could be upgraded to cooler versions of GPU's.
My liquid cooled Q6600 produce more heat than a Fermi card, its running at 3.6GHz @ 1.45V @ 50°C under load with 3x 120mm radiator flowing at around 400 L/hr.
And with a more dense, powerful computing solution in your data center, your server count could be decreased, so actually saving cost if you look at the bigger picture.
But they can save money on heating the room. Oh wait...
Some of us are energy conservative. I'd rather have a low watt, cooler, quieter card than one that screams over what I'm playing. You shouldn't NEED to run a complex water cooling system unless you're overclocking. Even then, I have this i7-920 overclocked to 3.6Ghz at 1.175v on air (gotta love the D0 stepping).
Besides, what about the other 80% of the time you're using your computer? Why does it need to be so loud running windows' GUI?
There's a lot to be said for support from a company like IBM; on the other hand the other solutions are head and shoulders more powerful and dense. IMO, ibm needs to step up their HPC offering here.