World's Most Powerful Global Computation Software Now GPU Accelerated
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SC08 -- At SC08, Wolfram
Research will demonstrate a new version of Mathematica, the world's most
powerful general computational software, that integrates CUDA(R), NVIDIA's
parallel GPU computing architecture. This new version is expected to give
Mathematica users an unprecedented performance increase of 10-100X in
numerical computing, modeling, simulation and visual computations, without the
need to learn or write C code.
"Since its initial release, Mathematica has been adopted by over 3 million
professionals across the entire global technical computing community, and it
has had a profound effect on how computers are used across many fields," said
Joy Costa, director of global partnerships at Wolfram Research. "The prospect
of a hundred fold increase in Mathematica 7 performance is staggering. CUDA
enabled Mathematica will revolutionize the world of numerical computation."
"With Mathematica 7, researchers and scientists can easily tap the
enormous parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPU's through a familiar high
level interface," said Andy Keane, general manager of the GPU Computing
business at NVIDIA. "This is truly transformative, giving Mathematica users
computational horsepower like never before and reducing computation time in
some cases from days to a matter of minutes."
The demonstration of the CUDA-accelerated release of Mathematica coincides
with the launch of the NVIDIA(R) Tesla(TM) Personal Supercomputer at this
year's SC08. Priced in the range of traditional PC workstations, Tesla
Personal Supercomputers are unrivalled in price and performance. Available in
configurations of up to 4 Tesla GPUs in a single system, Tesla Personal
Supercomputers deliver up to 4 Teraflops of computing performance from up to
960 parallel processing cores.
With desktop systems based on Tesla GPUs, Mathematica users will be able
to perform complex, data-intensive computations right at their desk, negating
the need to write native C programs or wait for time on a public cluster, a
process which can often take days or even weeks.
The CUDA accelerated version of Mathematica is expected to be available in
Q1 2009.
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
www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to,
statements as to: the performance, impact and benefits of the CUDA accelerated
version of Mathematica; the parallel processing power of NVIDIA's GPUs; and
the price and availability of NVIDIA's Tesla Personal Supercomputers and the
CUDA accelerated version of Mathematica 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
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