Boston Limited is delighted to announce that JMI University's entry into the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition has been awarded first place in the LINPACK test. The JMI team were equipped with Boston's liquid cooled GPU cluster and have managed to smash the 10.18Tflop mark previously set by the University of Edinburgh, Boston's 2014 sponsorship team, breaking all-time records at a staggering 10.78Tflops. The recorded score produced 3.59 Tflops/kW which would achieve a rank of #6 in the Green500, a list of the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world.
This achievement was made possible thanks to the provisioning of a high performance, liquid cooled GPU cluster by Boston. The system consisted of four 1U Boston Venom servers, each utilising two Intel® Xeon™ 'Haswell-EP' processors, two NVIDIA® K80 Tesla GPUs and Mellanox® EDR IB connectivity coupled to a Mellanox EDR switched fabric. Liquid cooling technology by CoolIT Systems™ was also used to cool critical system components resulting in a lower overall power draw due to cooling optimisations across the server.