NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Accelerate Science on HP ProLiant Generation 8 Servers

I don't normally post press releases in the news but this story seemed fitting considering my recent encounter with an HP Proliant DL360 G5.

HP ProLiant SL250 Gen8 CPU-GPU hybrid servers combine the world's most powerful parallel processors, NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPUs, with new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.

With an average of 12 percent higher performance for scalar processing, the new Intel E5-2600 CPUs relieve sequential bottlenecks for GPUs to tackle and complete parallel tasks significantly faster. This results in dramatically higher GPU utilization and overall increased application performance.

If you think about it this is a natural progression for server systems when they need more power.  We have been doing the very same thing for years in our desktop PCs but we don't use them for science experiments but for games and we call the technology SLI and Crossfire.

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