NVIDIA Demoes Tesla GPU for Personal Computing

Aside from the recent announcement coming from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, according to which NVIDIA's Tesla GPU will be powering a TSUBAME supercomputer, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker has also just demoed a Lenovo ThinkStation equipped with the company's Tesla C1060 GPU Computing processing technology. During the demonstration the graphics chip maker showcased cluster-class performance of complex seismic imaging data being generated on a single workstation.
 

"NVIDIA's GPU Computing technology is helping to transform high performance computing, and together we envision placing teraflops of parallel processing power at the fingertips of those researchers and professionals who need it most," said Tom Tobul, executive director of ThinkStation marketing, at Lenovo.
 

According to NVIDIA, Lenovo has already started shipping its D10 ThinkStation, which boasts the Tesla C870 GPU. The graphics chip maker and the PC manufacturer have agreed to continue to collaborate and enable future GPU Computing-based solutions, coming to support the performance requirements of researchers and scientists.
 

As expected, the Tesla C1060 GPU-enabled ThinkStation is based on NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing architecture. This will enable researchers and developers to take advantage of the computing performance delivered by NVIDIA's Tesla GPU, through the industry standard C.
 

In addition to the demoed ThinkStation, NVIDIA also announced a new product that is to bring the performance of a typical supercomputer in the same form factor as an everyday desktop PC. The Santa Clara, California-based company introduced its new GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which the company claims to deliver the equivalent computing power of a cluster at a much more affordable price tag and in the form factor of a desktop PC or workstation.

 
The chip manufacturer said that Tesla C1060-equipped Personal Supercomputers would become available from leading PC makers such as HP, Dell, ASUS or Lenovo, as well as other leading HPC OEMs, Systems Builders and Resellers including the AMAX, Armari, Azken Muga, Boxx, CAD2, CADnetwork, Carri, Colfax, Comptronic Concordia, Connoisseur, Dell, Dospara, E-Quattro, JRTI, Lenovo, Littlebit, Meijin, Microway, Sprinx, Sysgen, Transtec, Tycrid, Unitcom, Ustar, Viglen, Western Scientific.