GPGPU machine specs

This page is intended to list hardware combinations that we have successfully used in our GPGPU work.

Mid 2009 machine

Motherboard: MHI X58 (Intel Nehalem) motherboard. This board can take up to 3 double with GPUs (we actually used an ASUS board very similar to this one).

CPU: Intel Core i7 Nehalem 2.66GHz quad core

GPUs: 2 x NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and 1 x NVIDIA GTX280

PSU: 1200W Xclio Greatpower Quad SLi PSU

Memory: 6x2GB DDR3, bought as 2 x 6GB packs.

Case: Akasa Infinity Tower Case. Big case - plenty of room.

O/S: CentOS 5.2

Early 2009 cluster

As Mid 2008 cluster but replace Tesla units with S1070's

Mid 2008 cluster

4 x NVIDIA Tesla S870 server-style HPC units, 4 G80 cards in each

5 x HP Proliant DL160 G5 with 8GB ram, 2x2Ghz Xeon - 2 x PCIe risers as standard

O/S: CentOS 5.2

Mid 2008 machine

Motherboard: Intel Skulltrail. This board takes up to 3 double slot GPUs.

GPUs: 3 x NVIDIA 9800 GX2

CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5345A One core per GPU is required.

PSU: 1500W Xclio Greatpower Quad SLi PSU

Memory: 4 x 2GB FBDIMM DDR2

Case: Akasa Eclipse-62 Midi Tower Case. Very big case - plenty of room.

O/S: CentOS 5.2

Late 2007 machine

Motherboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI. This board takes up to 3 double slot GPUs.

GPUs: 2 x NVIDIA 8800 GTX. Also ran with 8800 GT cards as they need less power.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. One core per GPU is required.

PSU: 1000W Coolermaster Real Power Modular M1000. This power supply has 4 6-pin PCI-E connectors, but be careful because NVIDIA 8800GTX GPU's need 2 each!

Memory: 4 x 1GB.

Case: Supermicro midi-tower E-ATX (large case). Unfortunately, cases often come with PSUs which are too small and need to be replaced.

O/S: CentOS 5.0