https://www.newegg.com/supermicro-mbd-h ... lsrc=aw.ds
$15K
But where to put the GPUs?
There is always a rub.
No RAM or even heat sinks, but cores-a-plenty:
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No RAM or even heat sinks, but cores-a-plenty:
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Overall Review:This is a steal ! I grabbed two at this price !
Overall Review:This is a steal ! I grabbed two at this price !
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Re: No RAM or even heat sinks, but cores-a-plenty:
I did a bit of browsing on SuperMicro's site. It seems like their GPU servers look like this: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/ ... GP-TRT.cfmDann Corbit wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:54 am https://www.newegg.com/supermicro-mbd-h ... lsrc=aw.ds
$15K
But where to put the GPUs?
There is always a rub.
8x NVidia GPUs, each using 16x PCIe lanes on a dual-socket Xeon. That's "too many PCIe lanes", so there's clearly some kind of PCIe-switch going on there. I don't think they got a GPU-server like this designed yet for EPYC however... EPYC 2 is probably too new.
Also in that server: 24x 2.5" drive slots + 2x NVMe slots for storage. Probably designed for 2.5" flash drives.
Cray is doing something to make "Frontier" (Oak-ridge National Labs). Frontier will be EPYC + AMD GPU based, but I haven't been able to find any details yet. I did email ORNL's media relations, and they said that the specific specifications are under NDA right now, so no point looking them up yet.