Nvidia to Support GPGPU for HPC with Windows HPC Server 2008

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp., a leading developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), on Monday said that it had developed several GPGPU (general-purpose computing on GPU) applications compatible with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. This is the first time when a major GPU developer officially supports Windows HPC Server 2008 with its dedicated GPGPU platform.

Nvidia Research developed several GPU-enabled applications on the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform, such as a ray tracing application that can be used for advanced photo-realistic modeling of automobiles. Related to this, Nvidia worked with Microsoft Research to install a large Tesla GPU computing cluster and is studying applications that are optimized for the GPU.

In addition, a whole range of enterprise applications, such as data mining, machine learning and business intelligence, as well as scientific applications like molecular dynamics, financial computing and seismic processing, can take advantage of massively threaded processing on GPUs.

“The coupling of GPUs and CPUs illustrates the enormous power and opportunity of multicore co-processing. Nvidia’s work with Microsoft and the Windows HPC Server platform, is helping enable scientists and researchers in many fields achieve supercomputer performance on diverse applications,” said Dan Reed, corporate vice president of extreme computing at Microsoft

Nvidia Tesla high-performance GPU computing products support Windows XP and Windows Vista in the workstation and Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 in the data center. Tesla C1060 and S1070 GPU computing products are available from most major system vendors including Cray, Dell, HP and Lenovo.

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