It’s been while since we reporting on NextIO and their impressive PCI-Express virtualization and expansion technology.  Looks like they’ve been busy tho, and have just announced their newest product: The vCORE Express.  It’s a tiny 1U expansion system that is the first 1U to support the new Fermi-powered NVidia Tesla M2070 GPU’s.

vCORE Express is designed especially for parallel computing applications using NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs in cluster and datacenter deployments.  With four massively parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs in a 1U system, vCORE Express brings economies of scale to GPU customers by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based cluster – all at 10 percent of the cost and five percent of the power consumption.

That right, four Tesla M2070’s in a 1U space.  The press release is a bit light on technical details, but you can read the Spec Sheets on the new website.  From the announcement, it sounds like NVidia has basically shut down their own internal 1U Tesla product and handed it over to NextIO to manage, which is smart since NextIO already has the necessary skills and technology to pull it off.  From their FAQ:

Q: Why is NextIO taking over the NVIDIA Telsa S-Series Product?

A: NextIO is focused on consolidating and virtualizing I/O. This includes traditional IO such as storage and network, but also GPU computing. The partnership of NVIDIA and NextIO is a perfect fit; allowing NVIDIA to continue focusing on their core competency of GPU development and NextIO to augment our product line of consolidated I/O to fit the needs of GPGPU customers.

I have a meeting with NextIO Wednesday and I’ll be sure to get you more information then!

Full press release after the break.

Update 9/22 7:14am – New header graphic, with corrected spelling.

NextIO to Become Worldwide Provider of Next 
Generation GPU Consolidation Products Based on NVIDIA Tesla

Branded as vCORETM Express, NextIO delivers the highest-performing 
GPU consolidation solution for workstation and small data center computing

GPU Technology Conference 2010—SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 20, 2010 – NextIO, the premier provider of next-generation I/O consolidation solutions, today announced the vCORE™ Express product line.  vCORE Express is the first 1U expansion system to support the NVIDIA Tesla M2070 GPUs.   NextIO will officially launch vCORE Express at the 2010 GPU Technical Conference, September 20 – 23 in San Jose, CA, Booth #63.

“vCORE Express is a compatible upgrade to current Tesla S-Class systems,” said Andy Keane, general manager of the Tesla business, NVIDIA. “NextIO’s new systems provide a modular system architecture for centers deploying Fermi-architecture GPUs with 6GB of dedicated compute memory per GPU.”
“Our goal has always been to deliver the highest performance I/O solutions to our customers, and through vCORE Express, our customers now have access to the highest performing GPU expansion solution in the industry,” said K.C. Murphy, President and CEO, NextIO.

NextIO’s vCORE product family offers NVIDIA’s record-setting GPUs for both compute-intensive and data visualization requirements. vCORE Express enhances NextIO’s GPU consolidation product portfolio by introducing a simple, yet extremely powerful, solution for workstation and small cluster compute applications. Ideally suited for customers with a low number of job counts, low to medium GPU counts, or a combination of both, vCORE Express enables enterprise customers to easily deploy and seamlessly manage a consolidated GPU solution in a rack environment.

vCORE Express is designed especially for parallel computing applications using NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs in cluster and datacenter deployments.  With four massively parallel CUDA-enabled GPUs in a 1U system, vCORE Express brings economies of scale to GPU customers by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based cluster – all at 10 percent of the cost and five percent of the power consumption.

Most attractive to GPU customers, NextIO vCORE Express also introduces several features that enable new applications to perform dramatically faster using GPU computing, including:
Ray tracing
3D cloud computing
Video encoding
Database search
Data analytics
Computer-aided engineering
Virus scanning

About NextIO

NextIO, Inc. is the leader in next-generation network consolidation solutions for today’s dynamic data center in a variety of industries including enterprise, oil and gas, High Performance Computing, digital media and financial services. With its innovative vConnect™ platforms, NextIO offers the unique ability to virtualize I/O technology on any server, operating system, hypervisor and storage architecture. Leveraging PCI Express, NextIO offers true I/O consolidation for any end-point technology. vConnect delivers unprecedented rack-level scalability, with I/O and server resources that can be scaled independently for 50-70% savings in capital, power, and cooling. NextIO’s any-to-any I/O connectivity boosts performance and reliability while streamlining IT deployment, simplifying administration and reducing costs. For more information, visit www.nextio.com.

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