Appro, a provider of supercomputing offerings, has introduced Tetra server, a GPU server available in a 1U form factor based on Nvidia Tesla 20-series GPUs.
According to Appro, the new server features two CPUs and four Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs with 6x hot-swappable 2.5 inches HDDs and one PCIe expansion slot per server. It offers integrated IPMI 2.0 remote server management capabilities, interconnect options and a choice of Linux or Windows operating systems.
The company claims that the new Tetra server offers green features such as intelligent power control capabilities to power down pairs of GPUs to provide power savings for thermal efficiency and system reliability.
The1U Tetra GPU server is offered in two models, the 1426G4 server hosted by the new Intel Xeon processor supporting up to 96GB of memory, and the 326G4 server hosted by the new AMD Opteron processor supporting up to 128GB of memory.
Both models offer a 12GB of ECC GDDR5 memory support with a total of 1,792 GPU cores delivering double precision performance of over 2 TFlops of computing power per server.
John Lee, VP of advanced technology solutions for Appro, said: The Appro 1U Tetra GPU server is the result of listening to our customers. Appro is excited to work with Nvidia and committed to delivering HPC GPU solutions to customers that address price/performance with dense supercomputing solutions providing optimum application performance that is perfect for massively parallel and data intensive applications.
