NVIDIA Tesla Powers 29th Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SC08 -- The Tokyo
Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) today announced a collaboration with
NVIDIA to use NVIDIA(R) Tesla(TM) GPUs to boost the computational horsepower
of its TSUBAME supercomputer. Through the addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U
systems, the TSUBAME supercomputer now delivers nearly 170 TFLOPS of
theoretical peak performance, as well as 77.48 TFLOPS of measured Linpack
performance, placing it, again, amongst the top ranks in the world's Top 500
Supercomputers.
"Tokyo Tech is constantly investigating future computing platforms and it
had become clear to us that to make the next major leap in performance,
TSUBAME had to adopt GPU computing technologies," said Satoshi Matsuoka,
division director of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at
Tokyo Tech. "In testing our key applications, the Tesla GPUs delivered
speed-ups that we had never seen before, sometimes even orders of
magnitude -- a tremendous competitive boost for our scientists and engineers
in reducing their time to solution."
Speaking to the ease of implementation, Matsuoka continued, "The entire
upgrade was carried out in 1 week, and the TSUBAME supercomputer remained live
throughout. This is an unprecedented feat in
top-level supercomputing."
"We are honored to partner with Tokyo Tech -- world famous for their
supercomputing expertise and success," said Andy Keane, general manager of the
GPU Computing business at NVIDIA. "NVIDIA Tesla breaking into the Top 500
marks a milestone in supercomputing history. The massively parallel GPU is now
essential for supercomputing centers worldwide."
The first to achieve Top 500 ranking with an NVIDIA Tesla based GPU
cluster, Tokyo Tech, is one of hundreds of distinguished universities and
supercomputing centers that have adopted GPU based solutions for research.
Other leading centers include the National Center of Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Rice University, University
of Heidelberg, University of Maryland, Max Planck Institute and University of
North Carolina.
The Tesla S1070 1U GPU system is based on the NVIDIA CUDA(TM) parallel
architecture. This architecture is accessible through an industry standard C
language programming environment that allows developers and researchers to tap
into the parallel architecture of the GPU more quickly and easily than any
other solution shipping today.
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) 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(R) graphics products, the professional design and
visualization market with its Quadro(R) graphics products, and the high-
performance computing market with its Tesla(TM) computing solutions products.
NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia,
Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit http://www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to,
statements as to: the benefits of NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U GPUs on the TSUBAME
supercomputer; the benefits of NVIDIA's CUDA architecture; and the
essentialness of the massively parallel GPU for supercomputing worldwide; are
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that
could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include:
development of more efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for
parallel processing; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of
technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and
demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's
products; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of
performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems as
well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files
with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the
fiscal period ended July 27, 2008. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are
posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak
only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims
any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future
events or circumstances.
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