China’s First GPU Cluster
AMAX Delivers First Tesla GPU Cluster in China
Fremont, CA – September 22, 2009. AMAX the leading server and storage system builder in North America has successfully deployed the first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster in China to the College of Ocean and Earth Science at Tongji University where it will be used to perform revolutionary research in geophysics and reflection seismology led by Professor Zaitian Ma.
The research project will explore seismic wave propagation in complex media theory and numerical simulation, three dimensional seismic migration imaging of complex media, and multi-component seismic data processing and interpretation.
AMAX’s Tesla-based GPU cluster, with its revolutionary teraflop, many-core GPU technology, CUDA parallel architecture and programming model and high speed interconnects enables Tongji’s College of Ocean and Earth Science to unlock computing challenges more quickly and accurately than ever before. This is a great example of a practical use of the industry’s first massively multi-threaded and multi-core architecture, while still remaining energy efficient and maintenance-friendly.
“AMAX is proud to partner with Tongji University’s College of Ocean and Earth Science, to deploy the best-in-class, high performance Tesla GPU cluster solution that addresses their most demanding HPC applications and I/O requirements,” says James Huang, Product Marketing Manager at AMAX. “Our Tesla GPU cluster represents one of the most significant product innovations in the high-performance computing industry, and we strongly believe that the College will be at the forefront of the industry’s technology research, fully utilizing the unprecedented performance delivered by AMAX’s Tesla GPU cluster.”
About AMAX:
Founded in 1979, AMAX Information Technologies, Inc. manufactures and markets servers, industrial, workstation, and storage and clustering systems. Back in May of this year, they launched a new series of parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster solutions to more quickly and accurately solve the world’s most important computing challenges using NVIDIA’s Tesla GPU architecture. This means highly scalable and energy efficient cluster solutions showcasing 240 cores per processor and a complete suite of developer tools.
In June of this year, AMAX announced a new GPU parallel computing lab for their HPC customers to experience the performance of NVIDIA’s latest Tesla10 series GPU architecture. Their GPU systems which are available for remote testing are equipped with CUDA programming and supported by their own CUDA engineers. Dedicated broadband connections allow users to remotely access the lab. Recent projects in the company’s Tesla Testing Lab include DNA deconstruction, seismic data analysis, financial modeling, and anatomical simulation. Clearly China sees the value of studying earthquakes by means of this much faster seismic data analysis. Perhaps this kind of research may have a practical application in accurately predicting earthquakes someday.
AMAX’s headquarters are located in Fremont, California with additional branch offices throughout North America and globally. For more information, please visit www.amax.com. AMAX will also be exhibiting at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), next week – September 30 through October 2, 2009. This editor expects to represent AlienBabelTech there also and will try to get more details for you as well as anything you would like us to cover.
Mark Poppin
ABT Senior Editor
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