3/13/2012 08:40:00 PM
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NVIDIA has been doing quite well on the supercomputing market, but getting the HPC Advisory Council to start a new center specially made for testing applications on GPUs has to be its greatest success yet.
The HPC Advisory Council, as a major organization for high-performance computing (HPC) research, has a lot of say regarding the direction supercomputers around the world can take.
Considering its latest action, there seems to be no doubt that GPU compute accelerators are going to be an intrinsic part of such HPC installations in the future.
After all, it would not inaugurate an NVIDIA GPU-based HPC development center otherwise.
The HPC Advisory Council’s High Performance Center has a website here and will let developers test their programs on NVIDIA Tesla M2090 graphics processing units (GPUs).
“Researchers need an easy way to benchmark their models on the growing number of GPU-accelerated applications before making a buying decision,” said Sumit Gupta, director of Tesla business at NVIDIA.
“The new Center provides a valuable resource to help developers optimize their codes for GPUs, and ensure that applications will perform precisely as advertised.”
For those who don't already know, the NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPU has 512 CUDA cores and 665 gigaflops of peak performance.
Naturally, the new center will include future accelerators in its activities when the time comes.
“The new Center will enhance the HPC Advisory Council’s activities, and we’re grateful to NVIDIA for their support and collaboration in making this possible,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council.
“The new Center will enable free remote access to application developers, benchmarking, and various research activities based on the world-leading HPC processor.”
For those interested in things that affect them more directly, NVIDIA has released its latest graphics driver, complete with WHQL certification, and even made a package for Windows 8.
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