| NVIDIA Tesla Offers Fermi Parallel Processors |
| Written by NVIDIA Corporation | ||
| Friday, 29 January 2010 | ||
NVIDIA Tesla Offers Fermi Parallel ProcessorsTesla-20 series GPU parallel processors, based on CUDA processor architecture, include model C2050, with 3 GB GDDR5 memory, and C2070, with 6 GB. Units include error correcting codes, support for C++, and multilevel cache hierarchy with L1/L2 caches. They support ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding, data analytics, and CAE. Tesla S2050 and S2070 GPU Computing Systems each feature 4 Tesla GPUs in 1U system and up to 12 and 24 GB GDDR5 memory, respectively. NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA(TM) processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi". Designed from the ground-up for parallel computing, the NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs slash the cost of computing by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based cluster at one-tenth the cost and one-twentieth the power. The Tesla 20-series introduces features that enable many new applications to perform dramatically faster using GPU Computing. These include ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding, database search, data analytics, computer-aided engineering and virus scanning. "NVIDIA has deployed a highly attractive architecture in Fermi, with a feature set that opens the technology up to the entire computing industry," said Jack Dongarra, director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and co-author of LINPACK and LAPACK. The Tesla 20-series GPUs combine parallel computing features that have never been offered on a single device before. These include:
At their core, Tesla GPUs are based on the massively parallel CUDA computing architecture that offers developers a parallel computing model that is easier to understand and program than any of the alternatives developed over the last 50 years. "There can be no doubt that the future of computing is parallel processing, and it is vital that computer science students get a solid grounding in how to program new parallel architectures," said Dr. Wen-mei Hwu, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "GPUs and the CUDA programming model enable students to quickly understand parallel programming concepts and immediately get transformative speed increases." The family of Tesla 20-series GPUs includes:
The Tesla C2050 and C2070 products will retail for $2,499 and $3,999 and the Tesla S2050 and S2070 will retail for $12,995 and $18,995. Products will be available in Q2 2010. For more information about the new Tesla 20-series products, visit the Tesla product pages. As previously announced, the first Fermi-based GF100 consumer (GeForce) products are expected to be available first quarter 2010. About NVIDIANVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years in a row. For more information, see https://www.nvidia.com/. |
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