E4 Computer Engineering Introduces the CARMA CLUSTER Series Powered
by SECO, a New Family of Energy Efficient Solutions Aimed at HPC
and Datacenters Users
SCANDIANO, Italy, November 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
E4 Computer Engineering, Italian leading manufacturer for HPC
environments, has announced the launch of a new series to add to
its wide product portfolio, the CARMA CLUSTER series powered by
SECO.
The E4 CARMA CLUSTER series powered by SECO offers a range of
low-power, low-energy appliances designed to appeal to the HPC
world thanks to the pairing of a heterogeneous ARM®+GPU (NVIDIA
Tegra® 3 + Quadro® GPU). In fact, with the present generation of
ARM CPUs it is not possible to address algorithm based on Floating
Points arithmetic, therefore most of scientific application are
excluded. CUDA enabled Quadro GPU broadens the range of
applications that can be addressed and gives huge boost to
performance.
While ARM products are still currently limited by the 32-bit
support, early adopters and developers need to start working on
real systems to assess the capabilities of these high energy
efficient solutions. Leveraging the wide market adoption of the
NVIDIA Tegra platform in the mobile space, E4 and SECO have
delivered a real, cost effective and competitive server solution
with immediate availability.
The series is aimed to seismic processing, signal and image
processing, video analytics, traffic analysis and many other
applications. The range has two main platforms able to host carrier
boards for Qseven™ modules, the CARMA MICROCLUSTER and the CARMA
CLUSTER. The CARMA MICROCLUSTER comes in a 5U form factor and
contains up to 8 CARMA blades and 1 management node (x86 based)
while the CARMA CLUSTER is a 3U appliance containing up to 12
CARMA2 blades (high density blades, each
CARMA2 blade contains 2 CARMA nodes for a gross total of
2 ARM CPUs + 2 Quadro 1000) or 12 DARMA blades (4 ARM CPUs per
blade). DARMA and CARMA2 can be mixed into the same
chassis. Also, all blades comply with Qseven standard, so the MB
contains only I/O devices while the CPU component can be selected
from a wide range of SoC options, in order to ensure a smooth and
progressive transition from the x86 platform into the ARM
environment. Qseven technology provides the highest flexibility
while decreasing engineering costs, in fact the CPU architecture
can be swapped re-using the same carrier board without any
modification.
Launching the product at SC12 in Salt
Lake City at the ARM's stand (booth #122), E4 Computer
Engineering is confident that the CARMA CLUSTER series powered by
SECO will easily represent exciting news for the HPC community
aiming to achieve great performance results with much less power
consumption involved. "We felt an immediate connection with SECO in
terms of experimentation and innovation," said Simone Tinti, HPC Team Leader of E4 Computer
Engineering - the CARMA DEV kit on which our series is based has
proved to be one of the most interesting devices to create low
power, low-energy high performance appliances which will be
welcomed by all HPC users".
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About E4 Computer Engineering
E4 Computer Engineering: Workstations, server, storage and
solution
Established in 2002, E4 Computer Engineering designs and
manufactures high performance systems which aim to accomplish both
industrial and scientific research requirements and to reach a
variety of customers ranging from universities to computing
centers. E4's focus is on HPC although our expertise extends to all
segments of IT. Thanks to the established experience and the
outstanding quality of our solutions, E4® is acknowledged and
appreciated as a valuable technology vendor by prestigious
organizations like C.E.R.N. in Geneva. We design each system individually,
after a thorough analysis of the customer's requirements and we
make avail of our strong and solid partnership with the most
important technology vendors, to deliver highly personalized, cost
effective and power saving solutions.
For more info: http://www.e4company.com
About SECO
SECO, world-leading company in electronic embedded solutions,
over its 30 years of experience has shown the ability to adapt its
know-how to new, challenging customers' needs, and to provide
cutting edge solutions to its partners.
On the strength of its know-how and in contrast with recent
outsourcing policy, SECO has always set the entire production cycle
in Italy, from the development
stage to mass distribution.
Thanks to new, innovative solutions and great research and design
activities together with the partnership with major scientific
Universities and worldwide leading companies, SECO went
International becoming a global market-leading company providing
solutions to modern challenges.
For more info: http://www.seco.com
SOURCE E4 Computer Engineering