Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC vs Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX B200 8-GPU baseboard, so their accelerator performance is identical rather than merely similar. The choice between them is chassis, cooling, expansion and supplier, not FLOPS.
What actually differs
| Specification | Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC | Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Penguin Solutions | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | Altus XE4318GTS-DTC | Relion XE8318GTS |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x B200 | 8x B200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC
The Penguin Solutions Altus XE4318GTS-DTC is a 4U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX B200 SXM modules of 180 GB each, hosted by AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width. The DTC suffix marks Penguin's direct-to-chip liquid cooling, which is what folds an eight-accelerator Blackwell baseboard into 4U where the air-cooled equivalent needs 8U. Penguin publishes only rack height, host processor, expansion slots and the accelerator for its servers, so no power draw, total memory, interconnect bandwidth or throughput figure is shown here; its full datasheets are hosted off its own domain and were not used as a source.
Vendor product pagePenguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS
The Penguin Solutions Relion XE8318GTS is a 8U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX B200 SXM modules of 180 GB each, hosted by 5th and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL double-width. The air-cooled Blackwell machine, needing 8U where the liquid-cooled Altus XE4318GTS-DTC does the same work in 4U. Penguin publishes only rack height, host processor, expansion slots and the accelerator for its servers, so no power draw, total memory, interconnect bandwidth or throughput figure is shown here; its full datasheets are hosted off its own domain and were not used as a source.
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