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DELL POWEREDGE C4130 NVIDIA TESLA K80 GPU ACCELERATORS Organizations running the more than 200 available high-performance computing (HPC) applications know that computational performance is their top priority for getting results faster. In recent years, one approach to achieving increased compute power has been to add graphics processing units (GPUs) that can handle the complex and demanding compute requirements, such as the NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerators, to server hardware designed to support them. The new Dell PowerEdge C4130 server provides a unique platform to support the accelerated performance of GPUs with a physical design intended to facilitate airflow and reduce overheating. At Principled Technologies, we first compared the floating-point performance of an Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge C4130 without any GPUs (baseline) and then with the maximum amount of NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerators (maximum) in three different Intel Xeon processor configurations: pairs of E5-2650 v3, E5-2670 v3, and E5-2690 v3 processors. We found that adding the four GPUs to the Dell PowerEdge C4130 delivered up to 9.37 times more performance than the Dell PowerEdge C4130 without any GPUs. Improved performance from GPUs means getting more from HPC workloads. We then compared the performance of the Dell PowerEdge C4130 with four GPUs against a Supermicro 102