One Stop Systems Crams 16x 32GB AMD FirePro S9170 GPUs Into A 3U Accelerator

We talked about AMD’s newest top-end compute card last week, which it calls the FirePro S9170. It’s a ridiculous piece of kit, and I mean that in the best way possible. It packs 32GB of GDDR5 under its hood, and with a huge focus on DGEMM performance, the card boasts a market-leading 2.62 TFLOPs of double precision compute power. It’s a beast, plain and simple.

Naturally, it took no time before a system builder latched onto this monstrous GPU and packed a bunch of them into a single setup. In the case of One Stop Systems, it’s installed 16 S9170s into a 3U unit.

I’d recommend checking your pulse after computing that.

What this configuration ultimately delivers is an enormous 512GB of GPU memory, along with 42 TFLOPs of double-precision and 84 TFLOPs of single-precision performance.

This is so much power that not all of it can go to a single server – in its 16-GPU configuration, this 3U Computer Accelerator would connect to four other servers that would feed off of its performance.

If you happen to want one, you may want to hold off on picking up that new Tesla Model S, because with GPUs that will cost about $60,000 alone, a maxed-out configuration will be as expensive as it is powerful. But really – who can put a price on 42 freaking TFLOPs of DP performance?