A customer is planning a multi-threaded HPC solution that would benefit from threads running in parallel.
The architect selects the HPE Apollo 6000 and needs to choose between the HPE XL230a and the XL250a compute tray.
What is one reason for choosing the XL250a tray?
The HPE XL250a server supports dual accelerators. This feature can significantly boost the performance of multi-threaded HPC applications by allowing the use of powerful accelerators such as NVIDIA Tesla or Intel Xeon Phi. By supporting dual accelerators, the XL250a tray can offer higher computational power compared to the XL230a tray, making it a more suitable choice for customers requiring enhanced performance capabilities for parallel processing tasks.
C. The HPE XL250a server provides full length PCIe expansion slots.
Correct Answer is B: The HPE ProLiant XL250a Gen9 compute tray boosts performance for multi-threaded HPC applications. This tray features the same 2P server as the ProLiant XL230a tray, but adds support for up to two accelerators. You can select an NVIDIA Tesla accelerator tray, an Intel accelerator tray, or an AMD accelerator tray. You can then install up to two accelerators of the corresponding type in the tray (NVIDIA Tesla K40, Tesla K80, Tesla M60, Tesla M60 LAF, or Grid K1 Quad GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi 5110P or 7120P coprocessors, or AMD FirePro S9150 GPUs, as of the publication of this course). To make room for the accelerators, the XL250a is a double-width server tray. Therefore, the density of servers perchassis is lower—five 2P servers per-chassis. However, for the right HPC applications, the accelerators can more than make up for this lower density.
answer is B