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10 PlasmaENGINE® on PowerEdge R940xa
4 Conclusion
By leveraging the powerful capabilities of GPUs, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa allows PlasmaENGINE®
to process data with unparalleled performance. The 1:1 CPU to GPU ratio of the PowerEdge R940xa enables
Dell EMC powerful server to maximize the performance between CPU and GPU and avoid PCIe bottleneck,
which in turn allows PlasmaENGINE® to process a new-record 2.128 billion rows/second.
PlasmaENGINE® also processed over 35GB/s of data on the PowerEdge R940xa, or 8.75GB/s per card,
which is very close to the 10GB/s limit of PCIe. These results are directly attributed to the industry-leading
unique CPU and GPU implementation in the PowerEdge R940xa coupled with PlasmaENGINE’s unparalleled
data processing capabilities. It’s important to note that PlasmaENGINE® achieved these results on a single
server -- imagine how much additional data could be streamed with multiple Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa
servers.