The most surprising finding of the 2013 study is the substantially increased penetration of co-processors and accelerators at HPC sites around the world, along with the large proportion of sites that are applying Big Data technologies and methods to their problems.
Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors use the same familiar programming model as the widely used Intel Xeon processors allowing higher aggregate performance for most demanding applications in the most efficient and time-effective way.
Supermicro has a proven record to adopt new technologies that accelerate the deployment of systems assisting in key engineering and research applications.
This expanded facility provides us with additional capacity at a low cost of capital to fully fund our current ACC7 development in Ashburn, Virginia and a second development, as we grow the company.
This particular server configuration was chosen to balance the number of GPUs with CPUs, which we have found to be important for large-scale deep learning.