Along with NVIDIA’s keynote this morning (which should be wrapping up by the time this article goes live), NVIDIA also has a couple other announcements that are hitting the wire this morning. The first of which is the announcement of NVIDIA landing another major supercomputer contract, this time with the Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS). CSCS will be building a new Cray XC30 supercomputer, “Piz Daint.” Like Titan last year, Piz Daint is a mixed supercomputer that will pack both a large number of CPUs – Xeon E5s to be precise – and of course to great interest to NVIDIA, a large number of Tesla K20X GPUs. We don’t have the complete specifications for Piz Daint at this time, but when completed it is expected...
Cineca’s Tesla K20-Based “Eurora” Supercomputer Unveiled; Water Cooling Unlocks Extra Efficiency
We typically don’t cover a lot of supercomputing news outside of the major Top500/Green500 announcements due to the fact that the launches of so many supercomputers are clustered around...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2013Green500 Supercomputer List Released: Intel Takes Top Spot, Followed By AMD, NVIDIA
Coinciding with the publication of the Top500 supercomputer list earlier this week, the Top500’s sister list, the Green500, was published earlier this morning. The Green500 is essentially to power...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2012
Titan Takes #1 Spot on Top500 List with 17.59 Petaflops in LINPACK
Last month I took a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and visited the final stages of the assembly of the Titan supercomputer. Titan brings together 18,688 compute nodes...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/12/2012
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last
Continuing our SC12 related coverage today, while AMD was the first GPU announcement of the day they are not the only one. NVIDIA is also using the venue to...
72 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012
NVIDIA’s Maximus Technology: Quadro + Tesla, Launching Today
Back at SIGGRAPH 2011 NVIDIA announced Project Maximus, an interesting technology initiative to allow customers to combine Tesla and Quadro products together in a single workstation and to use...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2011
GTC 2010 Day 1: NVIDIA Announces Future GPU Families for 2011 And 2013
We’re currently down in San Jose, California covering NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference. While we're only covering the final 2 days of the conference, on Tuesday NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun...
82 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2010
NVIDIA Announces Parallel Nsight 1.5 & CUDA Toolkit 3.2
Not to be outdone by Intel’s IDF and AMD’s counter-meeting this week, NVIDIA’s GPU Computing group has their own announcement this week ahead of their GPU Technology Conference next...
23 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2010