Dell PE servers like the Tx30's series towers, only supports compute cards when configured with the GPU Installation Kit and the gruntier PSU's at the time of placing your order. In this way, the server has the required GPU auxilary power connectors required by many compute cards that Dell certifies (along with other mechanical bits to presumably hold the cards safely). However, it must be noted that Dell does not support graphics functions via PCIe graphics cards like the Quadro P4000 you mentioned. Dell only supports compute cards intended to provide processing grunt - not graphics :emotion-18: Obviously that does not mean PCIe graphics features will not work in this server, only that Dell will not support such configurations if you have issues. In such cases where you have issues with graphics, or use of non certified cards, you'd be on your own. Just be warned that should you install a graphics card into a PE server and it provides your graphics function, rather than offloading compute tasks, some management features may not be accessible (since they are provided to the DRAC by the integrated graphics which would be disabled ). As a side note, the PE server i have looked at is teh T630 which is a 2 socket tower server that allows up to 4 GPU compute cards to be installed but dependant on a number of condiitions/configurations of the server itself. Other PE servers modles may differ as to the number of suppoted compute cards. I've not seen any specific Dell doc that state which servers support which compute cards and how many they actually can support, so unless others know and can share you'll have to do lots of reading :emotion-43: Finally, it must also be noted that the GPU Installation Kit is not a self installed kit that one can 'order' with the hope of 'upgrading' a server post sale. As such it's wrong to call it a kit which is why i hate it being called that, it should be called GPU Installation Option' within the Dell PE custom configuration web page! So don't expect you can buy a server and then later upgrade it with a simple kit you can buy.  Good luck with your endevour :emotion-5: [ Note to admin: reCAPTCHA is an absolute pain since i often have to click more than 40 times to post... i'm loosing interest in forums with such unfriendly systems ]
Hi, I would like to know which of your PowerEdge servers provide PCIe slots for GPUs. I would like know some more details about it as well, i.e. how many slots, how many links, how many GPUs can be plug in, are there any limitations in size or model of GPUs?  Thanks, Miro
GPU support