14 DAY TRIAL // Server manufacturer Rackable Systems, now calling itself SGI, announced today the inclusion of Nvidia’s newly-launched K10 TESLA cards in the company’s own servers. The news was announced on SGI's official website, along with a complete list of SGI's current server offerings.
Nvidia’s TESLA K10 cards are practically dual GPU adapters with two GX104 chips on them, just like the well-known Nvidia GeForce GTX 690.
An Nvidia K10 adapter comes with 3072 CUDA cores and a total of 8 GB of memory, having a bandwidth of 320 GB/s.
The K10 offers double the performance per watt ration of its predecessor, the TESLA 2090.
SGI has been an experienced server manufacturer and operating system developer building servers using MIPS processors for the past 20 to 30 years.
Unfortunately, the company decided to adopt Intel’s Itanium architecture and the end result was bankruptcy.
Rackable Systems acquired SGI’s final assets for 42 million dollars back in 2009 and also adopted the name SGI.
Let’s hope the K10 adoption will help the new SGI deliver some astonishingly efficient products.