Boston unveils range of HPC server and cluster solutions at HiPC

BANGALORE, INDIA: Boston IT Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd presented its latest range of low power, highly efficient server solutions for the High Performance Computing arena at the 20th HiPC Conference in Bangalore, India.

Boston has partnered with Supermicro and CoolIT Systems to present the highly efficient liquid-cooled FatTwin server. Launched over a year ago the Supermicro FatTwin is a high-capacity, ultra-dense server solution that contains up to eight separate dual-CPU nodes in a 4U form factor.

Now, working together with CoolIT, Boston has enhanced the efficiency of the FatTwin with CoolIT's Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technology. This ensures heat is effectively removed from the high performance Intel Xeon processors by circulating liquid directly across the cooling blocks on the CPU's. By using liquid to remove heat, DCLC eliminates the limitations presented by air cooling in many of today's conventional servers.

A cluster containing the four node FatTwin, each node supporting three Xeon Phi co-processor cards, was recently unveiled by Intel at SC '13 in Denver where it reached #400 on the celebrated Top500 Supercomputer list and #41 on the Green500 List. Featuring 9,936 cores and providing an astounding 1,801.36 MFLOPS/W, the cluster consumed just 73kW of power thanks to CoolIT's innovative liquid cooling and Supermicro's ultra-dense server architecture.