NVIDIA Launches World’s Fastest
Acceleratorfor Supercomputing and Big Data
Analytics
NVIDIA
TeslaK40 Accelerator Doubles Memory of Its Predecessor, Enabling
NewCategories of Accelerated Applications
DENVER,
CO– SC13- NVIDIA today unveiled
the NVIDIA® Tesla® K40 GPUaccelerator, the world’s highest
performance accelerator everbuilt, delivering extreme performance
to a widening range ofscientific, engineering, high performance
computing (HPC) andenterprise applications.
Providingdouble the memory and up to 40
percent higher performance than itspredecessor, the Tesla K20X GPU
accelerator, and 10 times higherperformance than today’s fastest
CPU, the Tesla K40 GPU is theworld’s first and highest-performance
accelerator optimized for bigdata analytics and large-scale
scientific workloads.
Featuringintelligent NVIDIA GPU Boost™
technology, which converts powerheadroom into a user-controlled
performance boost, the Tesla K40GPU accelerator enables users to
unlock the untapped performance ofa broad range of
applications.
“GPUaccelerators have gone mainstream in
the HPC and supercomputingindustries, enabling engineers and
researchers to consistentlydrive innovation and scientific
discovery,” said Sumit Gupta,general manager of Tesla Accelerated
Computing products at NVIDIA.“With the breakthrough performance and
higher memory capacity ofthe Tesla K40 GPU, enterprise customers
can quickly crunch throughmassive volumes of data generated by
their big data analyticsapplications.”
UltimatePerformance
for Science, Big Data
Based on the NVIDIA Kepler™compute architecture — the highest
performance, most efficientarchitecture ever built — the Tesla K40
GPU accelerator surpassesall other accelerators on two common
measures of computationalperformance: 4.29 teraflops
single-precision and 1.43 teraflopsdouble-precision peak floating
point performance.
Key
featuresof the Tesla K40 GPU accelerator include:
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12GB of ultra-fast
GDDR5memory allows users to process 2X larger
datasets,enabling them to rapidly analyze massive volumes of
data.
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2,880 CUDA®
parallelprocessing cores deliver application
acceleration byup to 10X compared to using a CPU alone.
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DynamicParallelism enables
GPU threads to dynamically spawnnew threads, enabling users to
quickly and easily crunch throughadaptive and dynamic data
structures.
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PCIe Gen-3
interconnectsupport accelerates data movement by 2X
compared toPCIe Gen-2 technology.
In a
relatedannouncement, the Texas Advanced
ComputingCenter (TACC) at The University of Texas at
Austin —one of the leading advanced computing centers in the United
States— plans to deploy “Maverick,” a new interactive,
remotevisualization and data analysis system powered by NVIDIA
Tesla K40GPU accelerators. Maverick is expected to be fully
operational inJanuary 2014.
“The TeslaK40
GPU accelerators will help researchers crunch through
massivevolumes of big data and gain new insights through
large-scale,sophisticated visualizations,” said Kelly Gaither,
director ofVisualization at TACC. “With NVIDIA GPUs, Maverick will
provideresearchers powerful interactive capabilities to advance
their mostcomplex scientific challenges.”
The Tesla
K40GPU accelerates the broadest range of scientific,
engineering,commercial and enterprise HPC and data center
applications. Today,more than 240 software applications take
advantage of GPUacceleration. The complete catalog
of GPU-acceleratedapplications is
available as a freedownload.
Moreinformation about the Tesla K40 GPU
accelerator is available atNVIDIA booth 613 at SC13, Nov. 18-21,
and on theNVIDIA highperformance computing
website. To learn more about CUDA ordownload the latest
version, visit the CUDAwebsite.
Users canalso
try the Tesla K40 GPU accelerator for free on remotely
hostedclusters. Visit theGPU Test
Drivewebsite for more information.
Availability
Shipping today, the NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerator
isavailable now and in the coming months from a variety of
servermanufacturers, including Appro, ASUS, Bull, Cray, Dell,
Eurotech,HP, IBM, Inspur, SGI, Sugon, Supermicro and Tyan, as well
as fromNVIDIA reseller partners.
