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University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer with 13 NVIDIA GPUs
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Posted on Monday, December 14 2009 @ 09:25:43 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck |
Last year I wrote about the 4000EUR FASTRA desktop supercomputer with eight NVIDIA GPUs, and now the University of Antwerp's ASTRA group presents FASTRA II. This new system features a total of 13 NVIDIA GPUs and delivers up to 12 teraFLOPS. You can find more details in my FASTRA II article, the performance of this GPGPU system is really impressive.
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Re: University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer with 13 NVIDIA GPUs (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, December 14 2009 @ 10:23:32 CET | Holy cow! 12 teraflops from one box! Nice. That's a cluster-worthy system that carries some punch. And for just €6000!
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[ Reply to This ]Re: University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer with 13 NVIDIA GPUs (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, December 14 2009 @ 16:59:46 CET | That's so cool
Are you guys considering the move to OpenCL? I wonder how this system would perform with a bunch of highend Radeon 5970 video cards if so :p
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17986/2
Peak pixel fill rate (Gpixels/s)
GeForce GTX 295 - 32.3
Radeon HD 5970 - 46.4
Peak bilinear texel filtering rate (Gtexels/s)
GeForce GTX 295 - 92.2
Radeon HD 5970 - 116.0
Peak bilinear FP16 texel filtering rate (Gtexels/s)
GeForce GTX 295 - 46.1
Radeon HD 5970 - 58.0
Peak memory bandwidth (GB/s)
GeForce GTX 295 - 223.9
Radeon HD 5970 - 256.0
Peak shader arithmetic (GFLOPS)
Single-issue Dual-issue
GeForce GTX 295 - 1192 1788
Radeon HD 5970 - 4640 N/A
Good luck guys! |
[ Reply to This ]Re: University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer with 13 NVIDIA GPUs (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 15 2009 @ 04:30:42 CET | so cool...
can both fastra I and II work together with cluster??
and a tutorial of building and combine supercomputer would help many people including me i think :) |
[ Reply to This ]good motherboard suggestion? (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, December 17 2009 @ 11:08:01 CET | Hello Thomas,
Very nice system indeed.
I have a mixed experience with GTX 295 GPUs on different motherboards, all advertised with PCI16 2.0 slots. A setup with a X58 chipset - made by Supermicro and similar to the Asus P6T7 - giving a CPU to GPU transfer speed of 4.4 GB/s and another one with a P43 chipset - an Asus P5QL - giving only a speed of 1.1 GB/s.
Of course quite a different price tag but I am somewhat deceived about the second one throughput performance.
Anyone with a clever suggestion for a decent motherboard to host my GTX 295 GPUs preferably accepting Core 2 processors?
Kind regards,
Alain
UCL - Belgium
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[ Reply to This ]Re: University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer with 13 NVIDIA GPUs (Score: 1)
by PeterW on Wednesday, April 28 2010 @ 14:48:26 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hello,
Have you considered using a TYAN FT72B7015 4U barebone, (http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=BB&pid=412&SKU=600000150)? It provides 8 double width PCIe x16 v2.0 slots. So you could be using 8 Teslas C1060 (8 GPUs) or 8 GTX295 (16GPUs) without make changes to the hardware.
Peter |
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