High Frequency Traders are forever after optimal ways to deploy their HFT environments for performance benefits. Seconds feel like hours, operations in parallel nature seem like oceans apart and the perfect network setup always seems so hard to work out.

NVIDIA released the H100 last year which has already evolved into the market-leading enterprise GPU, being deployed in endless amounts of servers worldwide.

As a top-tier partner of SuperMicro, we care about getting our clients the most efficient servers and solutions. With the ever-rising cost of power in many regions and inflation hitting every aspect of business, we strive to continually improve on operating costs for our own server range.

Using a GPU as a raid controller is not something you would expect to hear among a conversation with server administrators. A US startup, GRAID, has a product called SupremeRAID, the SR-1010. It can have over 100GBps of read throughput and over 19 million IOPS – pretty impressive!

A HPC cluster is many nodes put together in a networked scenario to output high-performance workloads. Creating the building blocks is very important as a HPC cluster is simply put, a few, or many, elements that combine to make the cluster.

AMD has been continuing to acquire market share over the last couple of years and we’ve noticed a large interest in AMD Ryzen & Epyc Servers. AMD managed to make some serious inroads with their 5000 series Ryzen processors that were able to beat Intel Rocket Lake like-for-like on CPU benchmarks.

Building a #HPC cluster is challenging, especially with the variety of hardware and software options that are available. With the ever-changing hardware landscape, especially at the high-performance end, it can be wise to split your decision into several elements and also future-proof your hardware.

Picking the correct GPU Cloud Computing setup is important given the cost and workloads involved when moving to the cloud. We shortlist our recommended building blocks for an optimized GPU cloud.

Picking the correct RAID mode is important, especially as data carries a large value. Whether you need speed or redundancy, or both, you must pick the right RAID mode for your environment. There are other factors at play, such as read and write speeds, which we will discuss in the advantages and disadvantages below.