Nvidia launches new processor

MUMBAI, INDIA: Nvidia, a visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, announced on Wednesday the launch of Tesla M2090 GPU, a parallel processor for high performance computing, which achieved the fastest-ever performance in a key measure of scientific computation.

Equipped with 512 Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) parallel processing cores, the Tesla M2090 GPU delivers 665 gigaflops of peak double-precision performance, enabling application acceleration by up to ten times compared to using a CPU alone, said a press release.

In the latest version of AMBER 11, an application for simulating behaviors of biomolecules, four Tesla M2090 GPUs coupled with four CPUs delivered record performance of 69 nanoseconds of simulation per day.

The Tesla M2090 GPU will be available in servers such as the new HP ProLiant SL390 G7 4U server. The system is ideally suited for applications ranging from quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics to seismic processing and data analytics.

“Clients running intensive data center applications require systems that can process massive amounts of complex data quickly and efficiently.” said Glenn Keels, director of marketing, Hyperscale business unit, HP.

he added that the decade long collaboration between HP and Nvidia has created one of the industry’s fastest CPU to GPU configurations available, delivering clients the needed processing power and speed to handle the most complex scientific computations.