NVIDIA has unveiled its latest Tesla K80 GPU accelerator for the demanding enterprise environment and its designed for high machine learning, data analytics, scientific and high performance computing (HPC) appliations. The Tesla K80 dual-GPU is the new flagship offering of the Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform, the leading platform for accelerating data analytics and scientific computing. It combines the world’s fastest GPU accelerators, the widely used CUDA parallel computing model,and a comprehensive ecosystem of software developers, software vendors, and datacentre system OEMs.
The Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerator delivers nearly two times higher performance and double the memory bandwidth of its predecessor, the Tesla K40 GPU accelerator. The Tesla K80 delivers up to 8.74 teraflops single-precision and up to 2.91 teraflops double precision peak floating point performance, and10 times higher performance than today’s fastest
CPUs on leading science and engineering applications, such as AMBER, GROMACS, Quantum Espresso and LSMS.
The key features of the Tesla K80 GPU-accelerator includes:
– Two GPUs per board – Doubles throughput of applications designed to take advantage of multiple GPUs.
– 24GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory – 12GB of memory per GPU, 2x more memory than Tesla K40 GPU, allows users to process 2x larger datasets.
– 480GB/s memory bandwidth – Increased data throughput allows data scientists to crunch though petabytes of information in half the time compared to the Tesla K10 accelerator. Optimised for energy exploration, video and image processing, and data analytics applications.
– 4,992 CUDA® parallel processing cores – Accelerates applications by up to 10x compared to using a CPU alone.
– Dynamic NVIDIA GPU Boost Technology – Dynamically scales GPU clocks based on the characteristics of individual applications for maximum performance.
– Dynamic Parallelism – Enables GPU threads to dynamically spawn new threads, enabling users to quickly and easily crunch through adaptive and dynamic data structures.
The all new Tesla K80 GPU-accelerator is now available from a variety of server manufacturers which include ASUS, Bull, Cirrascale, Cray, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Inspur, Penguin, Quanta, Sugon, Supermicro and Tyan as well as from NVIDIA reseller partners.
