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NVIDIA Introduces Tesla P100 GPU

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By DE Editors  

June 20, 2016

NVIDIA has introduced the Tesla P100 GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerator for PCIe servers. The technology is designed to deliver massive leaps in performance and value compared with CPU-based systems, the company states.

The Tesla P100 for PCIe is available in a standard PCIe form factor and is compatible with today’s GPU-accelerated servers. A single Tesla P100-powered server delivers higher performance than 50 CPU-only server nodes when running the AMBER molecular dynamics code, and is faster than 32 CPU-only nodes when running the VASP material science application, a press release states.

For performance, the P100 offers 4.7 teraflops and 9.3 teraflops of double-precision and single-precision peak performance, respectively. It also includes a chip on wafer on substrate (CoWoS) design with HBM2, which provides a three time boost in memory bandwidth performance compared to the NVIDIA Maxwell architecture.

NVIDIA has officially introduced the Tesla P100 NVIDIA has officially introduced the Tesla P100

“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.”

For more information, visit NVIDIA.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

 

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