NVIDIA Releases the Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster

By DE Editors

NVIDIA and its partners have announced the availability of the Tesla GPU Preconfigured Cluster, an off-the-shelf solution that enables IT managers to add GPU computing capabilities to their existing datacenter systems.

Tesla GPU Preconfigured Clusters provide up to 30 times the performance of CPU-only solutions, according to NVIDIA, enabling IT managers to deploy smaller, more computationally dense systems. These consume substantially less power—which creates substantially lower costs—while still meeting the increasing demands of such applications as computational fluid dynamics,  molecular dynamics, seismic processing, and financial computing.

“There are 15 to 20 million engineers, scientists, and researchers around the world struggling for time on supercomputers, which has led to a huge pent-up demand for computation,” said Andy Keane, general manager of the Tesla business at NVIDIA. “With the launch of the Tesla Preconfigured Cluster, every one of them can easily deploy a GPU-powered supercomputing cluster that dramatically reduces their power consumption while still advancing the pace of their work.”

Tesla Preconfigured Clusters consist of x86 CPU servers coupled with Tesla S1070 1U GPU systems. Configurations start at 16 Teraflops of performance, delivered by four Tesla S1070s, each containing four Tesla 10-series GPUs. All systems include host servers, infiniband switches, cabling,  and are customizable to suit individual customer needs.

For more information, visit NVIDIA.

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