NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 Family of GPUs

Author: Cássio Lima Date: November 12, 2012 - 10:40 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releases/NVIDIA-Unveils-World-s-Fastest-M... Today, NVIDIA unveiled the Tesla K20 family of GPUs, which features the Tesla K20X and the Tesla K20 GPUs. The Tesla K20X powers the Titan, the world’s fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list. Armed with 18,688 NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPUs, the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, seized the No. 1 supercomputer ranking in the world from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia system with a performance record of 17.59 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. In the table below we’ve compared the performance specs for these two GPUs. Model Tesla K20X Tesla K20 Peak Double Precision 1.31 teraflop 1.17 teraflop Peak Single Precision 3.95 teraflops 3.52 teraflops Memory Bandwidth 250 GB/s 208 GB/s Memory Size 6 GB 5 GB The NVIDIA Tesla K20 family of GPUs is shipping today and is available for order from leading server manufacturers, including Appro, ASUS, Cray, Eurotech, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Quanta Computer, SGI, Supermicro, T-Platforms, and Tyan, as well as from NVIDIA reseller partners. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark Article | Comments (0)

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