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Google translate: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FSC12-HPC-Cluster-mit-Nvidia-Mobilgrafik-und-ARM-SoCs-1750800.html&act=url SC12: HPC cluster with Nvidia mobile graphics and ARM SoCs Carma microcluster with eight blades. Picture: E4 Computer Engineering As part of the EU project, Montblanc , the company developed Seco together with Nvidia components for supercomputers with ARM SoCs. The Italian company E4 Computer Engineering now links eight to 24 blades with Qseven modules with Tegra 3 processors and GPGPU accelerators type Quadro 1000M at comparatively economical HPC clusters. After Nvidia Project "Carma" - CUDA for ARM - called the E4 systems Carma microcluster or Carma cluster. The microcluster with eight blades, each one ARM SoC and GPU module carries, comes from a 520-watt power supply. E4 is the maximum computing power of 2.16 teraflops of single-precision floating-point calculations in (single precision). This corresponds to the performance of the eight Quadro 1000M graphics chips, each of which reach 96 CUDA cores of 270 Gflops. The CUDA-2.1 cores process only FP32 values, and no dual-precision numbers. The Carma board of Seco with Tegra 3 on a Qseven module also sells Nvidia developer. Image: Nvidia Nvidia sells a single of these blades as Carma devkit via Seco for around 630 euros and developer. E4 grabs again in Carma cluster together up to 12 nodes, equipped with Carma 2-boards, each node will have two Quadro 1000M, total come together to 6.48 teraflops SP computing power. E4 is setting up a 1.5-kW power supply. Carma the cluster can also be purchased exclusively with Tegra 3 processors, then a total of 48 of these SoCs stuck with four Cortex-A9 cores in it to 192 ARM cores. Sure enough, a 400-watt power supply. Are optional except for the Qseven board QuadMo747-X/T30 Tegra T30 with others available. The roadmap of the EU funded with 8.11 million euro project Montblanc looks about 2017 a cluster with 200 PFlops of 10 megawatts. Vergrößern Image: Seco Where supported by the EU with around 8 million Euro project Montblanc work as well with the Research Centre Jülich and the Leibniz Rechenzentrum Garching. The aim is efficient exascale supercomputers; 2017, a system with 200 PFlops stand on the Top500 list. For the first HPC prototypes Montblanc has now the ARM SoC Samsung Exynos 5 with two Cortex-A15 selected , as at the SC12 conference was announced. Nvidia is working within the framework of Project Denver to SoCs with proprietary ARM cores, but also has a license for the Cortex-A15. This could come in the Tegra version Wayne used. The internally developed ARM cores could be either 64-bit versions, as well as AMD, STMicroelectronics, Calxeda, Applied Micro and others are planning - but in part based on the ARM design Cortex-A57-A53 . ( ciw ) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
