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bullx B505

The bullx B505 accelerator blade was designed with HPC in mind. The use of accelerators such as GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) offers breakthrough performance plus outstanding space and energy efficiency. Derived from technologies initially developed for game machines, GPUs are highly parallel processors designed to seamlessly boost High Performance Computing applications without impacting power or cooling infrastructures.

 

bullx B505 Accelerator Blades

INCA chassis with B505

The bullx blade chassis can host indifferently 18 single-width compute blades (B500 model) each containing two CPUs or 9 double-width accelerator blades (B505 model) containing two CPUs and two GPUs - or any combination of those two types of blades.

The bullx B505 accelerator blades are the only blades on the market designed for full bandwidth between each GPU and host CPU, and for double interconnect bandwidth between blades.

GPUs can accelerate processing by a factor of 1 to 100.

Each blade contains: bullx B505 GPGPU

  • 2 high-frequency Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors

Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors or Westmere-EP (up to 6 cores at 2.66GHz)

  • 2 Intel S5520 chipset (Tylersburg IOH-36D) with QPI up to 6.4GT/s
  • A large memory capacity (up to 48GB memory per blade)

Up to 6 DDR3 dimm

  • 2 new-generation NVIDIA® Tesla™ M1060, M2050, M2070 or M2090 GPUs.
  • 2 InfiniBand QDR link  - ConnectX
  • 1Gb dual port Ethernet controller for the links to CMM and ESM
  • 1 Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  • 1 SATA disk (1.8", 80/120/250 GB) or 1 SSD drive (1.8", 60/120 GB)

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