ASUS ESC4000 FDR G2 Servers Power Most Energy Efficient GPU Based Supercomputer
ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 HPC Servers Power Most Energy-Efficient GPU-Based Supercomputer ESC4000/FDR G2 HPC servers enable project ranked number two on the Green500 worldwide list, reaching 421.2TFLOPS performance 2012/12/27 ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 HPC servers have been chosen to meet the needs of the SANAM HPC cluster used by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) in Germany and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia to support national-level scientific research. As of November 2012, SANAM was number two on the global Green500 list, which ranks supercomputers by energy efficiency, making it the most energy-conserving GPU-based supercomputer in the world. It stood at number 52 on the worldwide TOP500 supercomputer list, with 421.2TFLOPS total processing power. SANAM employs 210 ASUS ESC4000/FDR G2 computing nodes with 420 AMD FirePro™ S10000 dual-GPU modules and an array of 420 Intel® Xeon® E5-2650 8-core processors for a total of 38,4...