First look at the Convey HC-2ex HPC Coprocessor

Описание: The VAXBARN recently acquired a Convey HC-2ex HPC Coprocessor. In this video, we'll take a look at the hardware, which was designed by some of the same people behind the Convex supercomputers.

In Convey Computer's own words:
Convey hybrid-core computers tightly integrate an FPGA-based, reconfigurable
coprocessor with industry standard Intel processors in a standard rack-mountable
enclosure. The combination of an off-the-shelf development environment with
customizable logic provides a system that offers enhanced performance without
sacrificing the flexibility and ease of use of a general-purpose system. When used as
nodes in a high performance computing cluster, Convey systems deliver higher
performance for a given number of nodes, providing substantially better performance
per dollar or watt than conventional clusters.