Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 vs Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS
Both are built on the NVIDIA HGX H200 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 XE5318GTSv2 | Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Penguin Solutions | Penguin Solutions |
| Part number | Altus XE5318GTSv2 | Relion XE5318GTS |
| Form factor | rack | rack |
| Released | — | — |
| Accelerator | 8x H200 | 8x H200 |
| Aggregate memory | — | — |
| Aggregate bandwidth | — | — |
| System power | — | — |
| Interconnect | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL | Penguin publishes no interconnect figure; expansion is 12x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 1x PCIe Gen4 x16 low profile |
Rows shown in grey are identical between the two.
Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2
The Penguin Solutions Altus XE5318GTSv2 is a 5U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX H200 SXM5 modules of 141 GB each, hosted by AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors with 8x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 FHHL. Penguin's AMD-hosted Hopper workhorse, air cooled in 5U. 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 XE5318GTS
The Penguin Solutions Relion XE5318GTS is a 5U GPU server carrying eight NVIDIA HGX H200 SXM5 modules of 141 GB each, hosted by 5th and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with 12x PCIe Gen5 x16 low profile and 1x PCIe Gen4 x16 low profile. The Intel-hosted Hopper machine, and the most expansion-heavy server in the range with thirteen slots. 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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