NVIDIA in official press release reported about their interest in infrastructure development of supercomputers. One of the new company initiatives , for example, involves the use of Tegra processors with calculations accelerators based on graphics processors and CUDA platform support. In fact, this is the first step towards the implementation of Denver Project. The corresponding hybrid supercomputer will run in Barcelona.
NVIDIA Chapter , at the conference SC11 this week , report : NVIDIA is now working to achieve maximum productivity when creating new products with low power consumption. Supercomputers are now in development . For example, the record-holder K-Computer reaches the performance of 10 petaflops, consuming 12 megawatts of electricity.
According to Jensen, Juan, by 2019 supercomputers will achieve the milestone of one ekzaflops (1000 petaflops or 1000 000 teraflops) at power levels up to 20 megawatts. To achieve such progress without a more flexible approach to the design of supercomputers, according to the head NVIDIA, is impossible. Active use of graphics processors and accelerators calculations based on them should help to maintain the momentum of supercomputers.