Boston partners with Edinburgh University for ISC Student Cluster Competition - Winning partnership returns to ISC to reclaim title

the team requires to build a competitive, innovative and energy efficient cluster.

St. Albans, United Kingdom (19th June, 2017) – The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and Boston Limited are once again joining forces to enter the Student Cluster competition at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt Germany.

The team, who are based at Edinburgh University, and have previously won the Linpack award in 2014, will this year be utilising a cluster made up of CoolIT Systems liquid cooled, customised Boston ANNA Pascal systems.

The Boston ANNA Pascal is an industry leading GPU accelerated solution. A masterclass of server design and innovation, the solution includes a streamlined architecture which eliminates complex cabling and GPU pre-heat for maximum airflow, cooling and performance-per-watt. The high-density 1U server can support up to 4 Pascal GPU’s, making it the most optimal system for scalable GPU acceleration. In addition to the 4 GPUs, the 1U server provides 2 x PCI-E Gen 3 slots for InfiniBand or Omnipath allowing strong RDMA performance.

NVIDIA® Pascal™ architecture is purpose-built to act as the engine of computers that learn, see, and simulate our world, and as a result, Boston’s appliance promises to deliver lightning fast, absolute performance to HPC and deep learning workloads with infinite computing needs.

Emmanouil Farsarakis, Applications Consultant at EPCC is grateful to Boston and partners for supporting their competition entry;

“Participating in the Student Cluster Competition can be greatly beneficial to students. With the help of EPCC, students are brought into contact with an industrial partner – Boston Limited – who are providing all the hardware and relevant support the team requires to build a competitive, innovative and energy efficient cluster.

This sort of support allows students to directly access cutting edge technologies which they may never otherwise have had and make use of their newly acquired knowledge to port and optimise widely used HPC and data science codes to their cluster.”

David Power, Head of HPC, Boston Limited adds;
“We are delighted to be collaborating with EPCC in the Student Cluster Competition once again. With previous Linpack record-breaking success under our belt and the support of industry giants like NVIDIA, the highly skilled and motivated team from EPCC are optimistic for another success this year. We invite attendees of ISC to visit us and lend their support for what is shaping up to be an exciting competition.”

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For further information, including product details and specifications, please contact:
Maz Lopez, Head of Marketing
Boston Limited
+44 (0) 1727 876 100 - Mon to Fri, 9am to 5:30pm
maz.lopez@boston.co.uk

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