The American company HP has in Las Vegas his first series of supercomputers was announced. The Apollo-series hpc performance for companies within the reach; traditionally, it is mainly a research institute of supercomputers use.
The first supercomputers from the factories of HP have already been delivered for testing at Intel and as a research platform at the U.s. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Intel used the Apollo 6000-series to be processorontwerpen to simulate, while a Apollo 8000 system at the NREL standing. The Apollo 6000 series has over 160 blade servers per rack, while that in the Apollo 8000 series 144 pieces. Nonetheless, the Apollo 8000 series the most powerful – and most expensive – of the two.
According to HP, get the Apollo 8000 series is a price of several millions of dollars, by which thousands of petaflop computing in the home is achieved. The Apollo 6000 series, with 80 modules on board, it would ‘only’ be about $ 150,000 cost.
The Apollo 6000 is constructed out of a 5U high trays containing up to ten trays or blades. Each tray contains two nodes, where each tray is built up from a HP ProLiant XL220a Gen8 v2 Server. Each node in the tray is constructed from a single Xeon E3-1200 v3 processor with four cores up to 3.7 GHz and up to 32GB of memory. The storage consists of two 2.5″-drives. The power supply is controlled by a separate h 1.5-unit with up to six 2650W or 2400W power supplies.
The Apollo 8000 series is a system with water cooling per rack with 144 nodes is configured. The servers are with two pieces in a tray built and consist of HP ProLiant XL730f servers, with two processors per node. Each server offers up to 256GB of memory, a 480GB ssd and InfiniBand and gigabit interconnects. The Xeons are E5-2600 v2 series, with maximum clock speed to 3GHz and ten cores.
The water cooling consists of a vacuum system in which the servers a fully closed heat pipe system, so that hotswaps be possible without the chance of water damage. The cooling water can be used to heat the building to warm up; at the NREL, it can also be used to in the winter, the sidewalk free of ice. The cooling could be pieces, more fuel-efficient than traditional air cooling via air conditioning. The Apollo series is available immediately.
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