CoolIT Systems Announces Liquid Cooling for AMD's New Dual GPU Graphics Cards

Calgary, Alberta (PRWEB) January 28, 2008

Right on the heals of AMD announcing the availability of the ATI Radeon? HD 3870 earlier this month, CoolIT Systems debuts the third installment in the Reference Series line of liquid cooling systems designed to quietly and effectively cool Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s highly anticipated performance graphics cards, the ATI Radeon? HD 3870 X2. In recent testing, the liquid cooled cards were stably clocked up to over 900MHz core clock speed and the memory pushed to 1GHz with no thermal issues.

"We're extremely excited about the ATI Radeon? HD 3870 X2 as it sets a new standard in high definition gaming performance leadership for AMD" said Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed, AMD Fellow and Chief Thermal Architect, AMD Graphics Product Group. "Using AMD's micro-channel technology in a closed loop liquid cooling design, CoolIT is once again enabling users to exploit the full potential of 55nm ATI Radeon? HD 3800 series architecture while still maintaining a single slot form factor."

Geoff Lyon, CEO of CoolIT Systems comments "We are proud to successfully, leverage the micro-channel technology developed at the AMD thermal laboratory in Toronto in our solution. The cooling system for this card is extremely sophisticated given that we are cooling what amounts to a full CrossFire? set-up on a single card. When you consider that most cards having only 1 GPU are typically taking up 2 PCIe slots compared to the CoolIT solution which not only delivers extremely effective cooling and higher clock speeds but also reduces the thickness to a single slot the combined CoolIT and AMD offering represents tremendous value." He added, "We recently benchmarked this card and were able to hit over 23,500 in 3D Mark 06, which makes this, by far, the fastest video card/cooling combination we've ever tested."

To see the video of CoolIT breaking 23,500 in 3D Mark06 click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeHgoyGRbuI

To request additional product information and images or to schedule an interview with CoolIT CEO, Geoff Lyon, to discover more about the emerging trend of liquid cooling, please contact Public Relations representative Matt Shumate at (305) 576-1171 x15.

About CoolIT Systems

CoolIT Systems has been working with industry leaders in the computer industry to research, design, and deliver next generation cooling products that provide a comprehensive solution while exceeding high OEM standards for reliability and maintenance-free operation. This carefully designed and patented technology unleashes the full potential of a PC, providing superior cooling performance while reducing system level noise and improving reliability of vital components. The CoolIT MTEC Technology can be found in the top names in performance computing like Dell, Alienware, Velocity Micro, Maingear, Hypersonic, Biohazard, Ultra, Ultraforce, Systemax, War Machine and Shuttle. CoolIT also works with the AMD engineering group to provide the Reference cooling solution for the latest high performance video cards.

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Max Borges Agency

3550 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 501

Miami, FL 33137

(305) 576-1171 x15

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One Stop Systems Introduces First GPU/SSD 2U Server

Escondido, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009

One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS), a manufacturer of computer modules and systems announces the release of the first server to integrate an AMD-based motherboard featuring dual "Istanbul" processors and eight GPU boards providing 10TeraFLOPS compute power. The server can also accommodate a combination of GPU boards and SSD (solid state drive) boards. Four GPU boards and four 640GB SSD boards provides 5TFLOPS GPU processing and 2.5TB memory in addition to the compute power of the dual six-core processors. In addition, OSS has packed even more storage capacity into the system with four hot swappable hard disk drives and an internal RAID controller. The server is powered by dual, redundant 1,500 watt power supplies and housed in a 2U high chassis designed and manufactured to meet rigorous environmental demands.

"The Integrated GPU Server represents a combination of One Stop Systems' greatest areas of expertise; designing and manufacturing rugged, rackmount computers and PCI Express design," said Steve Cooper, CEO. "At the heart of this server is the dual Opteron processor board. Built on the SHBe form factor for industrial-grade computing, it's built to provide long-life service to the most demanding of applications. Then we employed multiple PCIe switches to provide the 80Gb/s bandwidth to each I/O slot. Utilizing the latest AMD-based GPU boards, we are able to produce greater than 10TFLOPS compute power. The system is then powered by dual redundant 1,500 watt power supplies with ample cooling to dissipate that much heat.

Together with our Direct Attached? GPU Accelerators released earlier this year, OSS has built a formidable family of multi-GPU systems. One Stop Systems is pleased to be partnering with AMD to provide these systems fully configured with your choice of AMD/ATI GPU boards."

AMD-based System Host Board

The motherboard is built on the SHBe (System Host Board Express) form factor and supports two six core Opteron processors and up to 96GB DRAM in six DDR2 DIMM slots. It's also I/O rich, containing dual Gb Ethernet ports, four USB, PCI Express 2.0, and ATI Radeon graphics. It supports four SATAII/SAS drives and includes an LSI RAID controller.

PCI Express expansion

The system can be configured to provide eight PCIe x16 Gen 2 slots for single-wide I/O cards or four slots for double-wide cards. While GPU's offer the greatest amount of compute power, customers who want to mix other cards in the system can do so. A common example is to install two or four GPU boards with four SSD (solid state drive) boards.

Further expansion can be accomplished by installing a host cable adapter in one of the PCIe x16 slots and cabling down to an expansion system like the OSS 2U GPU Accelerator, adding another eight PCIe x16 I/O boards to the system. The host cable adapter could also be cabled to a PCIe switch that could provide even further expansion to downstream devices.

Price and Availability

The 2U Integrated GPU Server with dual 2.4Ghz Opteron six-core processors (PN: OSS-PCIe-SYS-IS-2.4), no DRAM, no drives, lists for $ 6,995. The above server with four AMD 9270 GPU's (PN: OSS-PCIe-SYS-IS-2.4-9270-4) lists for $ 12,870 and with eight AMD 9250 GPU's (PN: OSS-PCIe-SYS-IS-2.4-9250-8) lists for $ 14,130.

About One Stop Systems

One Stop Systems (OSS) pioneered PCIe over cable (Direct Attached?) products and has been first to market with many Direct Attached products, including expansion kits and systems, disk arrays, as well as custom PCIe backplanes and boards. Today OSS has the largest selection of Direct Attached host cable adapters and end-point cards available. In addition, OSS designs and manufactures NEBS-certified telecom servers and computer modules and systems for a broad list of applications. OSS has a proven record of producing the highest quality products through superior engineering, quality driven production, and responsive pre- and post-sales. For more information, contact our sales department toll free at (877) 438-2724 or visit our web site at http://www.onestopsystems.com.

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