HP ProLiant Servers Deliver Extreme Compute Performance
HP introduced new entrants to its existing line of
ProLiant processors that deliver unprecedented performance levels.
Adding feathers to its cap, the new line of servers claims to accelerate
research for leading government, academic and industrial institutions.
HP also claims that its HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
have helped scientific institutions to do research faster and thus has
earned itself a spot in the TOP500 list of the world’s highest
performing supercomputers.
Scientific researchers who perform tasks that
involves a lot of calculation like modeling, weather forecasting, oil
exploration or genetic research consume a large amount of data which in
turn require massive amount of computational power and energy resources.
At the same time, they need systems that should be able to perform
these tasks using the minimum amount of power and footprint. The HP ProLiant Gen8 servers are adept for this sort of functionality and usage.
The new HP ProLiant SL270s Gen 8 server features the
HP ProActive Insight Architecture for an automated, accelerated and
optimized server environment. This makes it reach higher performance
levels than ever before.
Featuring the built-in HP 3-D Sea of Sensors technology, the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
assist clients in identifying over-utilized servers on the basis of
location, power, workload and temperature data. This will in turn help
them to increase efficiency and at the same time reduce operational
costs. The HP active health system automates troubleshooting across the
system, eliminating tedious administrative tasks and speeding health
problem analysis and its resolution.
“As the most powerful GPU supercomputer available
through the National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and
Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program, Keeneland provides
our scientists tremendous compute resources to support their advanced
research applications,” said Dr. Jeffrey Vetter, project director,
Keeneland, Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The
capabilities of HP ProLiant Gen8 servers
coupled with the NVIDIA GPUs provide the extreme computational
performance necessary for our researchers to create breakthroughs in
many fields of science.”
But how does the HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 meet the
High Performance Computing (HPC) demand? Firstly, it provides maximized
processor density, which means more power in a smaller footprint.
Secondly, it has the capacity to support up to eight Intel® Xeon PhiTM
coprocessors or eight NVIDIA® KeplerTM graphic processor units (GPUs)
per server. This allows clients to select the best accelerator or
coprocessor for their specific workloads.
