NVIDIA is making some noise in the supercomputing world today by unveiling its latest Tesla K-Series, in which K stands for “Kepler”, which is the name of the micro-architecture used to build it. That is the same architecture used in NVIDIA’s most recent graphics processors (GPUs) which is now making its way to the supercomputing world.
Unlike traditional GPUs, the Tesla Series is built to take advantage of the massive parallelism of graphics processors to accelerate general computation tasks. In fact, the Tesla cards don’t even have a video-out port which could remind us of their graphics cards cousins. (more…)
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