Introduction
The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer that
is backed by Nvidia and built by Dell, Lenovo and other companies. It is meant
to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla GPGPU brand; it
utilizes NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960
parallel processing cores, which allows it to achieve a performance up to 250
times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia.
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® products, the professional design and
visualization market with its Quadro® products, and the high-performance
computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara,
California, and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Tesla C1060
Computing Processor
At the heart of the new Tesla personal supercomputer are
three or four Nvidia Tesla C1060 computing processors, which appear similar to
a high-performance Nvidia graphics card, but without any video output ports.
Each Tesla C1060 has 240 streaming processor cores running at 1.296 GHz, 4 GB
of 800 MHz 512-bit GDDR3 memory and a PCI Express x16 system interface. While
typically using only 160-watts of power, each card is capable of 933 GFlops of
single precision floating point performance or 78 GFlops of double precision
floating point performance.
Conclusion
The revolutionary Tesla supercomputer was launched in London.
The NVIDIA’s Tesla computer could prove invaluable to medical researchers and
accelerate the discovery of cancer treatments.
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