AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SC08 -- 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(TM) 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.
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"We've all heard 'desktop supercomputer' claims in the past, but this time
it's 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(R) CUDA(TM)
parallel computing architecture. CUDA enables developers and researchers to
harness the massively parallel computational power of Tesla through industry
standard C.
"Dell has led the workstation category for almost a decade and GPU
computing represents a massive leap forward in performance that will bring
supercomputer power to the masses," said Antonio Julio, director, Dell Product
Group. "The Dell Precision R5400 and T7400 will allow the scientific community
to harness the capabilities of the NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU with up to two
teraflops of computational power."
As well as Dell, 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 http://www.nvidia.com/cuda and for more
information on the GPU-based NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer, please visit
http://www.nvidia.com/personal_supercomputing.
About NVIDIA
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
visualisation 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, performance, applicability, power and impact
of the Tesla Personal Supercomputer; the benefits of the NVIDIA GPU Computing
technology and NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture; and the
availability and price of the Tesla Personal Supercomputer 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
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not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof,
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