NVIDIA har under lång tid satsat mycket tid och energi på sitt CUDA koncept som gör det möjligt att använda grafikkortstillverkarens GPUer till andra krävande jobb än att trycka ut pixlar i de senaste 3D-spelen. Nu har NVIDIA tagit sitt GPGPU koncept ett steg längre genom att lansera en superdator som uteslutande använder sig av tillverkarens grafikkretsar. Kärnan i systemet är Tesla C1060 GPUn och gör det möjligt att utföra massiva parallellberäkningar med upp till 4 stycken grafikkort. Priset och storleken är bara en bråkdel av likvärdigt presterande datorkluster enligt NVIDIA.
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NVIDIA TESLA MAKES PERSONAL SUPERCOMPUTING A REALITY
Tesla GPUs Enable Cluster Class Performance On The Desktop
SC08AUSTIN, TXNOVEMBER 18 2008 Today, scientific research is carried out on supercomputing clusters, a shared resource that consumes hundreds of kilowatts of power and costs millions of dollars to build and maintain. As a result, researchers must fight for time on these resources, slowing their work and delaying results. NVIDIA and its worldwide partners today announced the availability of the GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which delivers the equivalent computing power of a cluster, at 1/100th of the price and in a form factor of a standard desktop workstation.
Weve all heard desktop supercomputer claims in the past, but this time its for real, said Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow. NVIDIA and its partners will be delivering outstanding performance and broad applicability to the mainstream marketplace. Heterogeneous computing, where GPUs work in tandem with CPUs, is what makes such a breakthrough possible.
Priced like a conventional PC workstation, yet delivering 250 times the processing power, researchers now have the horsepower to perform complex, data-intensive computations right at their desk, processing more data faster and cutting time to discovery.
GPUs have evolved to the point where many real world applications are easily implemented on them and run significantly faster than on multi-core systems, said Prof. Jack Dongarra, director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and author of LINPACK. Future computing architectures will be hybrid systems with parallel-core GPUs working in tandem with multi-core CPUs.”
Leading institutions including MIT, the Max Planck Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cambridge University and others are already advancing their research using GPU-based personal supercomputers.
GPU based systems enable us to run life science codes in minutes rather than the hours it took earlier. This exceptional speedup has the ability to accelerate the discovery of potentially life-saving anti-cancer drugs, said Jack Collins, manager of scientific computing and program development at the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center in Frederick Md., operated by SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
At the core of the GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer is the Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor which is based on the NVIDIA® CUDA parallel computing architecture. CUDA enables developers and researchers to harness the massively parallel computational power of Tesla through industry standard C.
GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputers are available today from the following leading HPC OEMs, Systems Builders and Resellers: AMAX (US), Armari (UK), Asus (WW), Azken Muga (ES), Boxx (US), CAD2 (UK), CADnetwork (DE), Carri (FR), Colfax (US), Comptronic (DE), Concordia (IT), Connoisseur (IN), Dell (WW), Dospara (JP), E-Quattro (IT), JRTI (US), Lenovo (WW), Littlebit (CH), Meijin (RU), Microway (US), Sprinx (CZ), Sysgen (DE), Transtec (DE),Tycrid (US), Unitcom (JP), Ustar (UKR),Viglen (UK), Western Scientific (US)
To learn more about the industry-changing applications benefitting from NVIDIA GPU Computing technology, visit www.nvidia.co.uk/cuda and for more information on the GPU-based NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer, please visit www.nvidia.co.uk/personal_supercomputing.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® graphics products, the professional design and visualisation market with its Quadro® graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.co.uk.
