Boston Limited announces Venom Accelerator
1792 cores in 4 CUDA capable Tesla C2050 controllers
15 June 2010 Source: In house
Boston Limited, now in its 19th year and key distribution partner for silicon valley based Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), today announces a new range of high performance compute solutions, including their latest line up of Venom professional workstations and servers utilising the latest nVidia CUDA enabled GPU technology.
A number of applications lend themselves to the use of the massively parallel architectures found in the Tesla range of GPU. This is realised in the latest Venom platforms from Boston which incorporate up to four C2050 cards; together making a total of 1,792 processing cores available. The result of this means the Boston system turns in excess of 4TFlops of single precision compute performance yielding over 2TFlops in double precision.
Reverse time migration is just one area where Boston's Venom solution could significantly impact the performance of processing large data pools.
Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston Limited says, "The methods in seismic data processing are a changing constant in the oil and gas industry. With compute intensive algorithms such as those used in reverse time migration, it is technology that is allowing better science to occur with suitable applications. Specifically it is with the advent of CUDA and Tesla from nVidia. Our Fermi enabled Venom solutions harness the power that nVidia deliver along side the latest architectures from x86 processor vendors."
Parallel processing has evolved dramatically but traditionally in order to scale has required a high number of x86 nodes to be deployed. This brings with it the challenge of increased electrical power and physical space. Boston are able to deliver greater parallel capability with a reduced physical footprint and much better power envelopes by using our highly efficient computer hardware engineered in conjunction with Supermicro.
"In addition to adding value to the compute", continues Nayee "the same hardware can be reconfigured to produce a very powerful 3D visualisation base station which is also low power, with a small footprint yet extremely high performance compared with traditional solutions."
"Our hardware improves efficiency by utilising the best design and the best components." says Wally Liaw, VP Sales International, Supermicro Computer Inc. "The use of 93% efficient power supplies is just one noticeable differentiator in the Boston Venom solution. We are happy to be the platform of choice yet again for Boston."
The Venom series is available from Boston Limited and can be customised to specific requirements.
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