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IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade and GPU

Expansion Blade II

Product Guide (withdrawn product)

The IBM® BladeCenter® GPU Expansion Blade and GPU Expansion Blade II provide the capability to attach

next-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) technology on supported server blades. This capability is

ideal for many applications written to take advantage of acceleration and visualization performance

advantages that are offered in general-purpose computing on GPUs. These products offer the choice of

NVIDIA Tesla M2070, M2070Q, M2075, and M2090 GPU. In addition, the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion

Blade is stackable, allowing clients to stack up to four GPU Expansion Blades on a single-base compute

blade, thereby offering a unique density advantage versus the competition. Figure 1 shows the IBM

BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade.

Figure 1. IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade (attached to a HS22 blade server)

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IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade and GPU Expansion Blade II Product Guide (withdrawn product) The IBM® BladeCenter® GPU Expansion Blade and GPU Expansion Blade II provide the capability to attach next-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) technology on supported server blades. This capability is ideal for many applications written to take advantage of acceleration and visualization performance advantages that are offered in general-purpose computing on GPUs.
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Did you know? General purpose GPUs are more than just high performance graphics engines. In fact, they do not connect to computer displays and they do not have video out capabilities, Instead, they perform general purpose graphical, scientific, and engineering computing and allow the offloading of compute-intensive tasks across all industries, including life sciences, fluid dynamics, finance, data analytics, atmospheric modeling, as well as large scale graphic rendering.
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Part number information Table 1.
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Figure 2 shows the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade attached to an HS22 blade server. Figure 2.
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Features The expansion blades have the following features: Support for a high-performance NVIDIA adapter in each expansion blade The expansion blade comes with NVIDIA Tesla M2070, NVIDIA Tesla M2070Q, NVIDIA Tesla M2075, or NVIDIA Tesla M2090 adapter card. The use of these expansion blades enables the use of the specialized adapters that would not otherwise be available to BladeCenter customers.
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Specifications The expansion blade has the following specifications: 30 mm expansion blade, attaches to a supported server blade through the PCIe x16 CFFh connector Standard NVIDIA GPU computing module Up to four expansion blades can be attached to the base server. With four expansion blades attached, the total width of the server is 150 mm. The CFFh slot remains usable on the top-most expansion blade, for use in BladeCenter H and HT configurations. Supported CFFh cards are listed in Table 4.
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Operating environment This card is supported in the following environment: Temperature: 10° C to 35° C (50° F to 95° F) Operating power: 270 W Dimensions: 24.5 cm x 5.9 cm x 45.7 cm (9.7 in. x 2.3 in. x 18.0 in.
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Supported servers The IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade and GPU Expansion Blade II are supported attached to the IBM BladeCenter servers listed in Table 2. TTable 2.
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Supported BladeCenter chassis Table 3 lists the supported chassis in which the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blades can be installed. Table 3.
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Supported CFFh expansion cards Table 4 lists the CFFh expansion cards that are supported or planned to be supported in the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blades. The use of these CFFh expansion cards requires that the expansion blade be installed in a BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT chassis. Table 4.
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Related publications For more information, refer to these documents: IBM U.S. Announcement Letter for GPU Expansion Blade http://ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=ca&&htmlfid=897/ENUS110-231 IBM U.S. Announcement Letter for GPU Expansion Blade II http://ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=ca&&htmlfid=897/ENUS112-044 IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade Installation and User's Guide http://www.ibm.com/support/ IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide http://www.ibm.
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