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The high performance computing (HPC) industry’s need for computation is increasing, as large and complex computational problems become commonplace across many industry segments. Traditional CPU technology, however, is no longer capable of scaling in performance sufficiently to address this demand.

The parallel processing capability of the GPU allows it to divide complex computing tasks into thousands of smaller tasks that can be run concurrently. This ability is enabling computational scientists and researchers to address some of the world’s most challenging computational problems up to several orders of magnitude faster.

Conventional CPU computing architecture can no longer support the growing HPC needs.Source: Hennesse]y &Patteson, CAAQA, 4th Edition.

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latest gpu superserver®, superBlade® and nvidia® maximus™ certified superWorkstation solutions from supermicro®

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will showcase its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) enabled X9 server and workstation solutions at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) May 14-17 in San Jose, CA. Supermicro®s GPU solutions support Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors and feature greater memory capacity (up to 256GB for servers and 512GB in workstations), higher performance I/O and connectivity with PCI-E 3.0, 10GbE and 4x QDr (40Gb) InfiniBand support (GPU SuperBlade) as well as innovative energy efficient power saving technologies. Supermicro X9 solutions also feature the highest density GPU computing available today. The non-blocking architecture supports 4 GPUs per 1U in a standard, short depth 32”, rack chassis. The SuperBlade can fit 30 GPUs in 7U- another industry

These select GPU enabled servers and workstations are a sampling of Supermicro’s vast array of GPU solutions. Visit us at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, May 14-17 in GTC Booth #75 to see Supermicro’s latest GPU products. For a complete look at Supermicro’s extensive line of high

performance, high efficiency GPU solutions, visit www.supermicro.com/GPU or go to www.supermicro.com/SuperWorkstations to keep up with Supermicro’s evolving line of NVIDIA Maximus powered SuperWorkstations.

first from Supermicro®. Combined with the latest GPUs based on NVIDIA Kepler architecture, the X9 platform offers industry professionals one of the most powerful, accelerated and ‘green’ computing solutions available on the market.

“Supermicro® is transforming the high performance computing landscape with our advanced, high-density GPU server and workstation platforms,” said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro®. “At GTC, we are showcasing our new generation X9 SuperServer®, SuperBladeTM and latest NVIDIA Maximus certified SuperWorkstation systems which deliver groundbreaking performance, reliability, scalability and efficiency. Our expanding lines of GPU-based computing solutions empower scientists, engineers, designers and many other professionals with the most cost-effective access to supercomputing performance.”

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Power Supplies • Best Value for your IT Investment• Up to 512 GB DDR3 memory and 8 Hot-Swap HDDs• Up to 5 GPUs supported with PCI-E 3.0• Server-Grade Design for 24x7 Operation

The 7047Gr-TrF is Supermicro’s latest high-end, enterprise-class X9 SuperWorkstation, with NVIDIA Maximus certification. This system accelerates design and visualization tasks with an NVIDIA Quadro GPU, while providing dedicated processing power for simultaneous compute intensive tasks such as simulation and rendering with up to four NVIDIA Tesla C2075 GPUs. The upcoming 7047Gr-TPrF SuperWorkstation supports passively cooled GPUs making it ideal for high performance trading (HPT) applications. X9 systems feature dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 family processors, maximized memory and non-blocking native PCI-E 3.0 configurations along with redundant Platinum level high-efficiency (94%+) power supplies.

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• NVIDIA® Maximus™ Certified supporting NVIDIA® Quadro® and up to 4 NVIDIA® Tesla® for real-time 3D design, visualization, simulation and accelerated rendering

• GPU Server for Mission-critical applications, enterprise server, large database, e-business, on-line transaction processing, oil & gas, medical applications

• Dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 family; Socket r (LGA 2011)

• 8 Hot-swap 3.5“ SATA HDD Bays, 3x 5.25“ peripheral drive bays, 1x 3.5“ fixed drive bay

• 16 DIMMs support up to 512GB DDR3 1600MHz reg. ECC memory

• 4 (x16) PCI-E 3.0 (support 4 double width GPU cards), 2 (x8) PCI-E 3.0 (1 in x16), and 1 (x4) PCI-E 2.0 (in x8) slot

• I/O ports: 2 GbE, 1 Video, 1 COM/Serial, 9 USB 2.0• System management: Built-in Server management

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• 4 Hot-swap PWM cooling fans and 2 Hot-swap rear fans

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X9 SuperServers which provide a wide range of configurations targeting high performance computing (HPC) applications. Systems include the 1027Gr-TQF offering up to 4 double-width GPUs in 1U for maximum compute density in a compact 32” short depth, standard rack mount format. The 2U 2027Gr-TrF supports up to 6 GPUs and is ideal for scalable, high performance computing clusters

in scientific research fields with a 2027Gr-TrFT model available supporting dual-port 10GBase-T for increased bandwidth and reduced latency. The GPU SuperBlade SBI-7127rG packs the industry’s highest compute density of 30 GPUs in 7U delivering ultimate processing performance for applications such as oil and gas exploration.

Professor Wu Feng of Virginia Tech‘s Synergy Laboratory is the main Brain behind VT‘s latest and greatest Supercomputer, HokieSpeed. HokieSpeed is a Supermicro supercluster of SuperServer® 2026GT-TrFs with thousands of CPU/GPU cores or „brains“.

In Nov. 2011, HokieSpeed ranked 11th for energy efficiency on the Green500 List and 96th on the world‘s fastest supercomputing Top500 List. Dr. Feng‘s Supermicro powered HokieSpeed boasts single-precision peak of 455 teraflops, or 455 trillion operations per second, and a double-precision peak of 240 teraflops, or 240 trillion operations per second.

2027gr-trft / 2027gr-trf (-fm475/-fm409)• GPU Server, Mission-critical app., enterprise server,

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• 10 Hot-swap 2.5“ SATA HDD Bays (4 SATA2, 6 SATA3)• 8 DIMMs support up to 256GB DDR3 1600MHz reg. ECC

memory• 4 (x16) PCI-E 3.0 (support 4 double width GPU cards), 1 (x8) PCI-E 3.0 (in x16), and 1 (x4) PCI-E 2.0 (in x16) slots• I/O ports: 2 GbE/10GBase-T (TRFT), 1 Video, 1 COM/

Serial, 2 USB 2.0• 5 heavy duty fans w/ optimal fan speed control• 1800W Redundant Platinum Level Power Supplies• „-FM475/409“: 4x NVIDIA M2075/M2090 GPU cards

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• 6 Hot-swap 2.5“ SATA HDD Bays• 8 DIMMs support up to 256GB DDR3 1600MHz reg. ECC

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(for IB card)• I/O ports: 2 GbE, 1 Video, 2 USB 2.0• 8 counter rotating fans w/ optimal fan speed control• 1400W Platinum Level Power Supply w/ Digital Switching• „-FM175/109“: 1x NVIDIA M2075/M2090 GPU card

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Serial, 2 USB 2.0• 10 heavy duty fans w/ optimal fan speed control• 1800W Redundant Platinum Level Power Supplies (TRF)• 1800W Platinum Level Power Supply (TSF)• „-FM375/309“: 3x NVIDIA M2075/M2090 GPU cards

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Virtual Media• Dual IOH per blade• Dual 40Gb InfiniBand or 10Gb Ethernet supported via

optional mezzanine card• Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet NIC• Redundant GBX connectors

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• Up to 120 GPU + 120 CPU per 42U Rack!• Up to 2 Tesla M2090/M2075/M2070Q/M2070/2050 GPU• Up to 2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 series processors• Up to 256GB DDR3 1600/1333/1066 ECC DIMM• 1 internal SATA Disk-On-Module• 1 USB flash drive• 2 PCI-E 2.0 x16 Full-heigh Full-length Expansion Slots• Onboard BMC for IPMI 2.0 support - KVM over IP, remote

Virtual Media• 4x QDR (40Gb) InfiniBand or 10Gb Ethernet supported via

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space optimization

When housed within a 19” EIA-310D industry-standard 42U rack, SuperBlade® servers reduce server footprint in the datacenter. Power, cooling and networking devices are removed from each individual server and positioned to the rear of the chassis thereby reducing the required amount of space while increasing flexibility to meet changing business demands. Up to twenty DP blade nodes can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the rack space required by twenty individual 1U servers, the SuperBlade® provides over 65% space savings.

Supermicro® offers GPU blade solutions optimized for HPC applications, low-noise blade solutions for offices and SMB as well as personal supercomputing applications. With acoustically optimized thermal and cooling technologies it achieves < 50dB with 10 DP server blades and features 100-240VAC, Platinum Level high-efficiency (94%+), N+1 redundant power supplies.

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These preconfigured solutions from Supermicro and NVIDIA provide a powerful tool for researchers and scientists to advance their science through faster simulations. GPU Test Drive is the easiest way to start using GPUs that offer supercomputing scale HPC performance at substantially lower costs and power.

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tesla k10 gpu computing accelerator ― Optimized for single precision applications, the Tesla K10 is a throughput monster based on the ultra-efficient Tesla Kepler. The accelerator board features two Tesla Kepler and delivers up to 2x the performance for single precision applications compared to the previous generation Fermi-based Tesla M2090 in the same power envelope. With an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflop peak single precision and 320 gigabytes per second memory bandwidth for both GPUs put together, the Tesla K10 is optimized for computations in seismic, signal, image processing, and video analytics.

tesla k20 gpu computing accelerator ― Designed for double precision applications and the broader supercomputing market, the Tesla K20 delivers 3x the double precision performance compared to the previous generation Fermi-based Tesla M2090, in the same power envelope. Tesla K20 features a single Tesla Kepler that includes the Dynamic Parallelism and Hyper-Q features. With more than one teraflop peak double precision performance, the Tesla K20 is ideal for a wide range of high performance computing workloads including climate and weather modeling, CFD, CAE, computational physics, biochemistry simulations, and computational finance.

technical specifications

TESLA K102 TESLA K20

Peak double precision floating point performance (board)

0.19 teraflops To be announced

Peak single precision floating point performance (board)

4.58 teraflops To be announced

Number of GPUs 2 x GK104s 1 x GK110CUDA cores 2 x 1536 To be announcedMemory size per board (GDDR5) 8 GB To be announcedMemory bandwidth for board (ECC off)3 320 GBytes/sec To be announcedGPU Computing Applications Seismic, Image, Signal

Processing,Video analytics

CFD, CAE, Financial computing, Computational chemistry and Physics, Data analytics, Satellite imaging, Weather modeling

Architecture Features SMX SMX, Dynamic Parallelism, Hyper-QSystem Servers only Servers and Workstations.Available May 2012 Q4 2012

1 products and availability is subject to confirmation2 Tesla K10 specifications are shown as aggregate of two GPUs. 3 With ECC on, 12.5% of the GPU memory is used for ECC bits. So, for example, 6 GB total memory yields 5.25 GB of user

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tesla® kepler gpu accelerators1

Tesla® Kepler ― World’s fastest and most power efficient x86 accelerator

With the launch of Fermi GPU in 2009, NVIDIA ushered in a new era in the high performance computing (HPC) industry based on a hybrid computing model where CPUs and GPUs work together to solve computationally-intensive workloads. And in just a couple of years, NVIDIA Fermi GPUs powers some of the fastest supercomputers in the world as well as tens of thousands of research clusters globally. Now, with the new Tesla Kepler, NVIDIA raises the bar for the HPC industry, yet again.

Comprised of 7.1 billion transistors, the Tesla Kepler is an engineering marvel created to address the most daunting challenges in HPC. Kepler is designed from the ground up to maximize computational performance with superior power efficiency. The architecture has innovations that make hybrid computing dramatically easier, applicable to a broader set of applications, and more accessible.

Tesla Kepler is a computational workhorse with teraflops of integer, single precision, and double precision performance and the highest memory bandwidth. The first GK110 based product will be the Tesla K20 GPU computing accelerator.

Let us quickly summarize three of the most important features in the Tesla Kepler: SMX, Dynamic Parallelism, and Hyper-Q. For further details on additional

fastest, most efficient hpc architecture

architectural features, please refer to the Kepler GK110 whitepaper.

smx — next generation streaming multiprocessor

At the heart of the Tesla Kepler is the new SMX unit, which comprises of several architectural innovations that make it not only the most powerful Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) we’ve ever built but also the most programmable and power-efficient.

dynamic parallelism — creating Work on-the-fly

One of the overarching goals in designing the Kepler GK110 architecture was to make it easier for developers to more easily take advantage of the immense parallel processing capability of the GPU.

To this end, the new Dynamic Parallelism feature enables the Tesla Kepler to dynamically spawn new threads by adapting to the data without going back to the host CPU. This effectively allows more of a program to be run directly on the GPU, as kernels now have the ability to independently launch additional workloads as needed.

Any kernel can launch another kernel and can create the necessary streams, events, and dependencies needed to process additional work without the need for host CPU interaction. This simplified programming model is easier to create, optimize, and maintain. It also creates a programmer friendly environment by maintaining the same syntax for GPU launched workloads as traditional CPU kernel launches.

Dynamic Parallelism broadens what applications can now accomplish with GPUs in various disciplines. Applications can launch small and medium sized parallel workloads dynamically where it was too expensive to do so previously.Figure 1: SMX: 192 CUDA cores, 32 Special Function

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Hyper-Q enables multiple CPU cores to launch work on a single GPU simultaneously, thereby dramatically increasing GPU utilization and slashing CPU idle times. This feature increases the total number of connections between the host and the the Tesla Kepler by allowing 32 simultaneous, hardware managed connections, compared to the single connection available with Fermi. Hyper-Q is a flexible solution that allows connections for both CUDA streams and Message Passing Interface (MPI) processes, or even threads from within a process. Existing applications that were previously limited by false dependencies can see up to a 32x performance increase without changing any existing code.

Hyper-Q offers significant benefits for use in MPI-based parallel computer systems. Legacy MPI-based algorithms were often created to run on multi-core CPU-based systems. Because the workload that could be efficiently handled by CPU-based systems is generally smaller than that available using GPUs, the amount of work passed in each MPI process is generally insufficient to fully occupy the GPU processor.

While it has always been possible to issue multiple MPI processes to concurrently run on the GPU, these processes could become bottlenecked by false dependencies, forcing the GPU to operate below peak efficiency. Hyper-Q removes false dependency bottlenecks and dramatically increases speed at which MPI processes can be moved from the system CPU(s) to the GPU for processing.

Hyper-Q promises to be a performance boost for MPI applications.

conclusion

Tesla Kepler is engineered to deliver ground-breaking performance with superior power efficiency while making GPUs easier than ever to use. SMX, Dynamic Parallelism, and Hyper-Q are three important innovations in the Tesla Kepler to bring these benefits to reality for our customers. For further details on additional architectural features, please refer to the Kepler GK110 whitepaper at www.nvidia.com/kepler

To learn more about NVIDIA Tesla, go to www.nvidia.eu/tesla

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Figure 3: Hyper-Q allows all streams to run concurrently using a separate work queue. In the Fermi model, concurrency was limited due to intra-stream dependencies caused by the single hardware work queue.

Figure 2: Without Dynamic Parallelism, the CPU launches every kernel onto the GPU. With the new feature, Tesla Kepler can now launch nested kernels, eliminating the need to communicate with the CPU.

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CUDA architecture has the industry’s most robust language and API support for GPU computing developers, including C, C++, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Fortran. NVIDIA Parallel Nsight, a fully integrated development environment for Microsoft Visual Studio is also available. Used by more than six million developers worldwide, Visual Studio is one of the world’s most popular development environments for Windows-based applications and services. Adding functionality specifically for GPU computing developers, Parallel Nsight makes the power of the GPU more accessible than ever before. The latest version - CUDA 4.0 has seen a host of new exciting features to make parallel computing easier. Among them the ability to relieve bus traffic by enabling GPU to GPU direct communications.

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accelerate your code easily With openacc directivesget 2x speed-up in 4 Weeks or less

Accelerate your code with directives and tap into the hundreds of computing cores in GPUs. With directives, you simply insert compiler hints into your code and the compiler will automatically map compute-intensive portions of your code to the GPU.

By starting with a free, 30-day trial of PGI directives today, you are working on the technology that is the foundation of the OpenACC directives standard.

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openacc directives

The OpenACC Application Program Interface describes a collection of compiler directives to specify loops and regions of code in standard C, C++ and Fortran to be offloaded from a host CPU to an attached accelerator, providing portability across operating systems, host CPUs and accelerators.

The directives and programming model defined in this document allow programmers to create high-level host+accelerator programs without the need to explicitly initialize the accelerator, manage data or program transfers between the host and accelerator, or initiate accelerator startup and shutdown.

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history of gpu computing

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gpu acceleration in life sciencestesla® Bio WorkBench

The NVIDIA Tesla Bio Workbench enables biophysicists and computational chemists to push the boundaries of life sciences research. It turns a standard PC into a “computational laboratory” capable of running complex bioscience codes, in fields such as drug discovery and DNA sequencing, more than 10-20 times faster through the use of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.

It consists of bioscience applications; a community site for downloading, discussing, and viewing the results of these applications; and GPU-based platforms.

Complex molecular simulations that had been only possible using supercomputing resources can now be run on an individual workstation, optimizing the scientific workflow and accelerating the pace of research. These simulations can also be scaled up to GPU-based clusters of servers to simulate large molecules and systems that would have otherwise required a supercomputer.

Applications that are accelerated on GPUs include:

• MolecularDynamics& Quantum chemistry AMBEr, GrOMACS, HOOMD, LAMMPS, NAMD, TeraChem (Quantum Chemistry), VMD

• Bio informatics CUDA-BLASTP, CUDA-EC, CUDA- MEME, CUDASW++ (Smith- Waterman), GPU-HMMEr, MUMmerGPU

For more information, visit: www.nvidia.co.uk/bio_workbench

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GrOMACS is a molecular dynamics package designed primarily for simulation of biochemical molecules like proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids that have a lot complicated bonded interactions. The CUDA port of GrOMACS enabling GPU acceleration supports Particle-Mesh-Ewald (PME), arbitrary forms of non-bonded interactions, and implicit solvent Generalized Born methods.

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• Improve product quality with 2x more design simulations

• Accelerate time-to-market by reducing engineering cycles

• Develop high fidelity models with practical solution times

How much more could you accomplish if simulation times could be reduced from one day to just a few hours? As an engineer, you depend on ANSYS Mechanical to design high quality products efficiently. To get the most out of ANSYS Mechanical 14.0, simply upgrade your Quadro GPU or add a Tesla GPU to your workstation, or configure a server with Tesla GPUs, and instantly unlock the highest levels of ANSYS simulation performance.

future directions

As GPU computing trends evolve, ANSYS will continue to enhance its offerings as necessary for a variety of simulation products. Certainly, performance improvements will continue as GPUs become computationally more powerful and extend their functionality to other areas of ANSYS software.

gpu accelerated engineeringansys: supercomputing from your WorkstationWith nvidia tesla gpu

What can product engineers achieve if a single simulation run-time reduced from 48 hours to 3 hours? CST Microwave Studio is one of the most widely used electromagnetic simulation software and some of the largest customers in the world today are leveraging GPUs to introduce their products to market faster and with more confidence in the fidelity of the product design.

20x faster simulations With gpusdesign superior products With cst microWave studio

recommended tesla configurationsWorkstation

• 4x Tesla C2070• Dual-socket Quad-core CPU• 48 GB System Memory

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• 4x Tesla M2090• Dual-socket Quad-core CPU• 48 GB System Memory

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Benchmark: BGA models, 2M to 128M mesh models.CST MWS, transient solver.CPU: 2x Intel Xeon X5620.Single GPU run only on 50M mesh model.

A new feature in ANSYS Mechanical leverages graphics processing units to significantly lower solution times for large analysis problem sizes.”

By Jeff Beisheim, Senior Software Developer,

ANSYS, Inc.

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•Nastran direct equation solver is GPU accelerated

– Real, symmetric sparse direct factorization– Handles very large fronts with minimal use of

pinned host memory– Impacts SOL101, SOL400 that are dominated by

MSCLDL factorization times– More of Nastran (SOL108, SOL111) will be moved

to GPU in stages

•Support of multi-GPU and for both Linux and Windows

– With DMP> 1, multiple fronts are factorized concurrently on multiple GPUs; 1 GPU per matrix domain

– NVIDIA GPUs include Tesla 20-series and Quadro 6000

– CUDA 4.0 and above

msc nastran, marc5x performance Boost With single gpu over single core, >1.5x With 2 gpus over 8 core

gpu acceleration in computer aided engineering

simulia aBaQus / standard reduce engineering simulation times in half

As products get more complex, the task of innovating with more confidence has been ever increasingly difficult for product engineers. Engineers rely on Abaqus to understand behavior of complex assembly or of new materials.

With GPUs, engineers can run Abaqus simulations twice as fast. A leading car manufacturer, NVIDIA customer, reduced the simulation time of an engine model from 90 minutes to 44 minutes with GPUs. Faster simulations enable designers to simulate more scenarios to achieve, for example, a more fuel efficient engine.

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visualize and simulate at the same time on a single systemnvidia® maximus™ technology

Engineers, designers, and content creation professionals are constantly being challenged to find new ways to explore and validate more ideas — faster. This often involves creating content with both visual design and physical simulation demands. For example, designing a car or creating a digital film character and understanding how air flows over the car or the character‘s clothing moves in an action scene.

Unfortunately, the design and simulation processes have often been disjointed, occurring on different systems or at different times.

introducing nvidia maximus

NVIDIA Maximus-powered workstations solve this challenge by combining the visualization and interactive design capability of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs and the high-performance computing power of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs into a single workstation. Tesla companion processors automatically perform the heavy lifting of photorealistic rendering or engineering simulation computation. This frees up CPU resources for the work they‘re best suited for – I/O, running the operating system and multi-tasking – and also allows the Quadro GPU to be dedicated to powering rich, full-performance, interactive design.

reinventing the WorkfloW

With Maximus, engineers, designers and content creation professionals can continue to remain productive and work with maximum complexity in real-time.traditional workstation

nvidia® maximus™ workstation

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With Maximus technology, you can perform simultaneous structural or fluid dynamics analysis with applications such as ANSYS while running your design application, including SolidWorks and PTC Creo.

For more information, visitwww.nvidia.co.uk/object/tesla-ansys-accelerations-uk

For more information, visitwww.nvidia.co.uk/object/quadro-3ds-max-uk

For more information, visitwww.nvidia.co.uk/object/quadro-catia-uk

For more information, visitwww.nvidia.co.uk/object/adobe_PremiereproCS5_uk

With Maximus technology, you can perform rapid photorealistic rendering of your designs in applications such as 3ds Max or Bunkspeed while still using your system for other work.

With Maximus technology, photorealistic rendering is interactive. And it allows you to simultaneously run other applications without bogging down your system.

With Maximus technology, you can relieve the pressure of getting more done in less time.

faster simulations, more joB instancesrelative Performance Scale vs 2 CPU Cores

8 cpu cores+ tesla c2075

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maximus performance for 3ds max 2012 With irayRelative Performance Scale vs 8 CPU Cores

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* Adobe Premier Pro results obtained from 5 layers 6 effects per layer output to H.264 on a Dell T7500, 48 GB, Windows 7 at 1440 x 1080 resolution. Price performance calculated using cost per system and number of clips possible per hour.

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