http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/13/dell-adds-a-gpu-expansion-pack/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/13/dell-adds-a-gpu-expansion-pack/#comment-248497 Joe "the C410x architect" Sekel Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:53:34 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=12938#comment-248497 Yes, the need to fit sixteen GPGPUs (and the associated power and cooling requirements) determined the overall format of this 3U chassis. However, during its definition, we always anticipated a more generic usage as a remote PCIe expansion chassis with x16 PCIe plumbing throughout. It is a fairly straightforward leverage of this platform to accommodate PCIe plug in cards such as NICs, IB cards and even PCIe-based flash cards. Typically, anthing that can plug into one of our PowerEdge C server slots can also be plugged into one of the C410X slots. When the host server boots, it will find and enumerate these devices in the C410X (loading appropriate drivers) just as they would be enumerated in that host server's local slot(s). Yes, the need to fit sixteen GPGPUs (and the associated power and cooling requirements) determined the overall format of this 3U chassis. However, during its definition, we always anticipated a more generic usage as a remote PCIe expansion chassis with x16 PCIe plumbing throughout. It is a fairly straightforward leverage of this platform to accommodate PCIe plug in cards such as NICs, IB cards and even PCIe-based flash cards. Typically, anthing that can plug into one of our PowerEdge C server slots can also be plugged into one of the C410X slots. When the host server boots, it will find and enumerate these devices in the C410X (loading appropriate drivers) just as they would be enumerated in that host server’s local slot(s).

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