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Nvidia debuts Tesla K20 GPU accelerators
Sylvie Barak
11/12/2012 10:47 PM EST
Better energy efficiency
Nvidia says the new generation is greener too, with the K20X said to deliver three times higher energy efficiency than the previous-generation.
Using Tesla K20X accelerators, Oak Ridge’s Titan achieved 2,142.77 megaflops of performance per watt, which surpasses the energy efficiency of the No. 1 system on the most recent Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.
“We really improved the architectural efficiency,” said Gupta. He called beating IBM’s Blue Gene Q system in energy efficiency a "big deal.”
Customers seem to be buying into the hype, too. At launch, Nvidia could already boast Clemson University, Indiana University, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Southern California (USC), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as being amongst the takers.
The new Tesla’s are shipping as of today from manufacturers including Appro, ASUS, Cray, Eurotech, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Quanta Computer, SGI, Supermicro, T-Platforms and Tyan.
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Nvidia says the new generation is greener too, with the K20X said to deliver three times higher energy efficiency than the previous-generation.
Using Tesla K20X accelerators, Oak Ridge’s Titan achieved 2,142.77 megaflops of performance per watt, which surpasses the energy efficiency of the No. 1 system on the most recent Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.
“We really improved the architectural efficiency,” said Gupta. He called beating IBM’s Blue Gene Q system in energy efficiency a "big deal.”
Customers seem to be buying into the hype, too. At launch, Nvidia could already boast Clemson University, Indiana University, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Southern California (USC), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as being amongst the takers.
The new Tesla’s are shipping as of today from manufacturers including Appro, ASUS, Cray, Eurotech, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Quanta Computer, SGI, Supermicro, T-Platforms and Tyan.
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