Fujitsu Launches NVIDIA-Based Primergy CX400 Server

Fujitsu's Series of Primergy servers has been updated. A new machine is now part of it, dubbed Primergy CX400 and equipped with both Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Tesla GPU compute accelerators.

There are two ways in which the CX400 can be configured. One: with four 1U hot-plug PRIMERGY CX250 S1 server nodes (two CPUs per node). Two: with two 2U hot-plug CX270 S1 server nodes with two CPUs and one NVIDIA Tesla GPU per node. As in all other servers with graphics processor accelerators, the GPUs are used for parallel computing, unloading the strain form the CPU cores and allowing the latter to handle other tasks.

Improved power efficiency is just a side-benefit of the deal, but a highly relevant one. Fujitsu should already be shipping PRIMERGY CX400 S1 Multi-Node systems through its channel partners. Go here for more info and here for orders.

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