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NVIDIA Tesla P100 Supercharges HPC Applications by More than 30XPowered by pascal architecture, Tesla P100 delivers massive leap in data center throughput | ||
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India To meet the unprecedented computational demands placed on modern data centers, NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe servers, which delivers massive leaps in performance and value compared with CPU-based systems.
Demand for supercomputing cycles is higher than ever. The majority of scientists are unable to secure adequate time on super computing systems to conduct their research, based on National Science Foundation data1. In addition,high performance computing (HPC) technologies are increasingly required to power computationally intensive deep learning applications, while researchers are applying AI techniques to drive advances in traditional scientific fields.
The Tesla P100 GPU acceleratorfor PCIe meets these computational demands through the unmatched performance and efficiency of the NVIDIA Pascal™ GPU architecture. It enables the creation of “super nodes” that providethe throughput of more than 32 commodity CPU-based nodes and deliver up to 70 percent lower capital and operational costs2.
“Accelerated computing is the only path forward to keep up with researchers’ insatiable demand for HPC and AI supercomputing,” said Ian Buck, vice president of accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “Deploying CPU-only systems to meet this demand would require large numbers of commodity compute nodes, leading to substantially increased costs without proportional performance gains. Dramatically scaling performance with fewer, more powerful Tesla P100-powered nodes puts more dollars into computing instead of vast infrastructure overhead.”
The Tesla P100 for PCIe is available in a standard PCIe form factor and is compatible with today’s GPU-accelerated servers.It is optimized to power the most computationally intensive AI and HPC data center applications. A single Tesla P100-powered server delivers higher performance than 50 CPU-only server nodes when running the AMBER molecular dynamics code3, and is faster than 32 CPU-only nodes when running the VASP material science application4.
Later this year, Tesla P100 accelerators for PCIe will power an upgraded version of Europe’s fastest supercomputer, the Piz Daint system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland.
“Tesla P100 accelerators deliver new levels of performance and efficiency to address some of the most important computational challenges of our time,” said Thomas Schulthess, professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich and director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. “The upgrade of 4,500 GPU accelerated nodes on Piz Daint to Tesla P100 GPUs will more than double the system’s performance, enabling researchers to achieve breakthroughs in a range of fields, including cosmology, materials science, seismology and climatology.”
The Tesla P100 for PCIe is the latest addition to the NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform. Key features include:
Tesla P100 for PCIe Specifications
Availability NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe-based systems is expected to be available beginning in Q4 2016 from NVIDIA reseller partners and server manufacturers, including Cray, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and SGI.
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AboutNVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a computer technology company that has pioneered GPU-accelerated computing. It targets the world’s most demanding users — gamers, designers and scientists — with products, services and software that power amazing experiences in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, professional visualization and autonomous cars.
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