The appearance of the FireStream 9270 suggests it has been derived from the ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics accelerator, albeit different clock speeds, different drivers, four times the amount of memory, and connections. Product lines in this class includes the AMD FireStream, that finds competition in NVIDIA's Tesla.
#AMD FIRESTREAM 9270 GPU SOFTWARE#
Devices of this class exploit the general purpose computing capabilities of graphics processors, back them with a software architecture, and a programming environment to make for a dedicated number-crunching machine that holds rated computational power much higher than that of CPUs. Aprius technology meets the needs of Enterprise server communications and clustered computing workloads now and into the future.Sapphire, the single largest add-in board partner for AMD, announced its FireStream 9270 GPGPU accelerator. Leveraging extensive high speed optical interconnect expertise and innovations in PCI Express switching, Aprius extends high-performance PCIe outside of the server to provide high bandwidth links between servers and their shared resources. Pricing will vary depending on system configuration and can be obtained by contacting Aprius directly.Īprius is a privately held, early stage, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing high bandwidth server interconnect systems that bring new levels of scaling, resource sharing and low-latency performance to the data center. Aprius is a member of the PCI-SIG standards body and plans to work within the PCI-SIG to set standards for PCIe over optics. These services can be provisioned, allocated or shared, depending on the type of resource, via the Aprius high-performance (20, 40 and 80 Gbps), low latency PCIe optical interconnect and managed through standard network management interfaces.Īprius and numerous other components and systems companies believe an optical standard for extending PCIe can enable many new and innovative uses, particularly in the interconnect of many servers in a cluster for high-performance and very low-latency communications between servers. The CA8000 is the first in a family of generalized systems known as Cluster Services Nodes which provide various services, such as network IO, storage and compute resources, to nodes within a cluster. The Computational Acceleration System takes one giant step forward in bringing the benefits of GPU acceleration to mainstream environments and users." "We're thrilled that Aprius has chosen the AMD FireStream 9270 to power what stands to be a true game changing system. The AMD FireStream 9270 compute accelerator provides more than 1.2 teraFLOPS of performance, applying the massive acceleration capabilities of the GPU to enable supercomputing-class performance at a fraction of the typical cost and power requirements," said Patricia Harrell, director of stream computing, AMD. "Data center managers need superior performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar. It can house up to eight PCIe compute accelerator cards, such as the AMD FireStream 9270, delivering up to 9.6 teraFLOPS of processing horsepower via four PCIe 2.0 x16 interfaces for a combined bandwidth of 320Gbps. The 4U rack mount chassis is modular, and allows in-rack access to cards and hot swap of key components, for easier physical maintenance and minimized downtime.
#AMD FIRESTREAM 9270 GPU INSTALL#
This greatly increases the ability for placement in undedicated rack space, giving data center managers the flexibility to install the system where they want, when they want. The system is the first to include a PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 fiber optic interconnect, developed by Aprius, that allows the system to accelerate four host servers simultaneously, and be placed up to 50 meters away from the hosts with transparent support for all OS environments. "We are partnering with key manufacturing and channel partners to allow OEMs to customize and get this product to market quickly and cost-effectively." "The Aprius Computation Acceleration System delivers massive, high-bandwidth compute acceleration, using open standards for mainstream cluster environments, with the installation and management flexibility IT managers demand," said Varun Nagaraj, CEO, Aprius Inc. Aprius will be demonstrating the system in booth 30. The system is capable of delivering nearly 10 teraFLOPs of acceleration performance, when powered by AMD's latest compute accelerator, the FireStream™ 9270, with a high degree of data center placement and management flexibility.
Aprius Inc., a provider of advanced computer interconnects, today announced its plans to demonstrate the Aprius CA8000 Computational Acceleration System at the Supercomputing 08 show in Austin, TX.
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