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Extreme GPU Computing
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Contents
Figures ....................................................................................................................... 2
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 3
2. The PowerEdge C4130 .............................................................................................. 3
Unique system configurability ..................................................................................... 3
Ultra-high density .................................................................................................... 6
Accelerator-friendly layout ........................................................................................ 6
Advanced systems management ................................................................................... 6
3. The Tesla K80 GPU accelerator board ........................................................................... 7
4. Performance characterization ..................................................................................... 8
4.1 Bandwidths between CPU to GPU ........................................................................... 8
4.2 Accelerating high performance Linpack (HPL) ............................................................ 9
4.3 Accelerating Molecular Dynamics with NAMD ........................................................... 11
4.4 Accelerating Molecular Dynamics with LAMMPS ........................................................ 13
4.5 Accelerating Molecular Dynamics with GROMACS ...................................................... 15
5. Performance improvement compared to previous generation of PowerEdge C410X solutions ...... 17
6. Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 20
Appendix A: Hardware Configuration of the C4130 ............................................................... 21
Appendix B: Applications and Benchmarks ......................................................................... 21
References ................................................................................................................ 22