IDT voltage regulator modules power world's fastest supercomputer
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Integrated Device Technology has supplied voltage regulator modules (vrms) to power the world's fastest supercomputer. SGI's Altix system incorporates IDT's power vrms for microprocessor, asic and memory power requirements.
The vrms selected by SGI use IDT's patented coupled inductor technology, which is designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption in computing applications.
Utilising the Intel Xeon 7500 series processors, the SGI Altix UV scales to 2048 cores and 16TB of memory, making it the most scalable shared memory supercomputer available today. Each Altix UV server blade uses nine high density IDT vrms to deliver fast transient response, tight regulation, high efficiency, and reliability.
"Altix UV gives our customers the ability to perform very large simulations and analyse tremendous amounts of data that were previously only imagined," said Bill Mannel, vice president of product marketing at SGI. "The innovative vrm power solutions from IDT support the architecture of SGI Altix UV, which scales to thousands of cores in a single system image environment. This gives great flexibility to users of Altix UV to run a wide range of applications."
