Team Chemnitz is sporting an unusual, and perhaps frightening, hardware combination. They’ve brought what I’ve dubbed “The Fastest Coffee Table in the World” to Leipzig. The “coffee table” houses four tower workstations, each of which has FOUR of the biggest, baddest accelerators available today – two NVIDIA K20s and two Intel Phi co-processors. Is that enough power for you? Probably so – but it’s also on the lower end of the pricing scale.
For the true computing power junkie, this is nirvana. In fact, had they given me a chance to play around on the system, I think I would need a 12-step program to tear myself away from it.
The big question is how to use all of this vast processing power and stay under the 3,000 watt power cap. That’s a fun part of the video… give it a look…
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Tagged: supercomputing, HPC, NVIDIA, ISC 2013, Intel, Student Cluster Challenge, Chemnitz University of Technology, Meet the teams
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