New Supermicro Workstation Delivers Four Teraflops of Performance

Super Micro Computer, one of the industry's leading vendors of application-optimized, high-performance servers and workstations, has announced today the launch of its new 7046GT-TRF SuperWorkstations, designed to leverage the performance capabilities of Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon 5500 Series of server processors. The company's new server system have been designed to combine the performance of Intel's latest Xeon chips with NVIDIA's Tesla C1060 GPUs, providing users with a choice for a high-end workstation that can deliver an impressive four Teraflops of performance. In addition, the new workstations have been featured with 1400-watt power supplies that are designed to meet Gold Level efficiency (93%+ efficiency).

“Extending our leadership in GPU computing system architectures, the new 7046GT-TRF features multiple x16 non-blocking native Gen2 PCI-Express connectivity, Supermicro's first system to support four double-width GPUs,” said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. “Equipped with Supermicro's patented thermal design, and industry-leading power efficiency, these highly parallel, multi-GPU systems are optimized for a wide range of graphics and computationally intensive applications in fields like medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, quantum chemistry, financial simulation, genomics and astrophysics.”

The SuperMicro SuperWorkstation is designed to support up to four NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU cards, combined with two Intel 5500-series Xeon Quad/Dual Core processors. The rackmountable system can be equipped with up to 96GB of DDR3 ECC memory and also boasts an Intel dual 82574 Gigabit Ethernet solution and support for up to six SATA drives. The Supermicro SC747TQ-R1400 chassis can provide customers with support for up to eleven full-height, full-length expansion cards and eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch SAS/SATA hard drives.

“Scientists and engineers rely on Tesla GPUs for the unrivalled levels of performance delivered for the dollar,” said Andy Walsh, director of product marketing, Tesla business at NVIDIA. “Supermicro's innovative Tesla-based 4U Personal Supercomputer brings cluster level performance to the desktop, dramatically increasing the pace of computational research.”