90Y2328 IBM NVIDIA Tesla M2090 PCIe x16 GPU, BladeCenter HS23

IBM part 90Y2328 is the NVIDIA Tesla M2090 PCIe x16 GPU card that ships integrated in the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade II with NVIDIA Tesla M2090, option 00D6881. For the BladeCenter HS23 expansion unit, 90Y2328 is the replacement part number for the M2090 card itself.

The expansion blade has two replaceable pieces: the base assembly (BGE4.2), replacement number 68Y7493, and the GPU. The M2075 version of the unit (option 68Y7478) carries the M2075 PCIe x16 card 90Y2316, and the M2070Q version (option 68Y7479) carries the M2070Q graphic adapter 43V5947. The base assembly 68Y7493 is the same across all three versions, while each GPU has its own number, and 90Y2328 is the one for the M2090 unit.

The GPU Expansion Blade II adds graphics processing unit acceleration to a server blade and is supported on the IBM BladeCenter HS22 (7870) and HS23 (7875). It is stackable: up to four GPU Expansion Blades can be stacked on a single HS22 or HS23 compute blade, with four-blade stacking on the HS22 available through a specific machine type. In a stacked configuration the CFFh I/O slot of the compute blade stays accessible.

IBM announced the M2090 version of the expansion blade alongside the HS23 on March 6, 2012, with planned availability on March 16, 2012. IBM Tesla diagnostic and RMA steps apply to option 00D6881 on BladeCenter HS22 types 1936 and 7870 and HS23 types 1929 and 7875. The related PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade II (option 68Y7484) is a different unit with its own base assembly, BPE4.2, replacement number 68Y7498.