by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “Cirrascale Corporation®, a premier developer of blade and rackmount solutions enabling GPU-driven deep learning infrastructure, today announced it will begin shipping the recently announced NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators with 16GB HBM2 memory throughout its high-performance, deep learning product lines. Utilizing the company’s proprietary 96-lane Gen3 PCIe switch-enabled risers, the GX Series and GB5600 Series product lines can attach up to eight discrete NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs on the same PCIe root complex in a single rackmount or blade server chassis, with additional room for other Gen3 PCIe x16 devices such as InfiniBand® or NVMe cards.”

PJ Go, president of Cirrascale Corporation, commented, “Our customers have been clamoring to get their hands on NVIDIA’s Pascal-based architecture to help further advance their HPC and deep learning needs… The Tesla P100 GPU tied with Cirrascale hardware, can deliver one of the world’s fastest compute nodes containing with one of the most advanced datacenter accelerators capable of solving today’s important challenges in HPC and deep learning.”

The release continues, “Extending the capabilities of these accelerators, the Cirrascale SR3615 PCIe switch riser enables up to 10 PCIe Gen3 x16 compatible devices — such as GPU accelerators, InfiniBand network or NVMe storage cards — to communicate directly with each other on the same PCI root complex. This eliminates the need for host CPU intervention by allowing the accelerators to share a single memory address space and make use of DMA to control data movement.”

Read more at PRWeb.

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