Sure, you’ve been hearing NVIDIA toss around names like CUDA , Fermi and Tesla for what seems like ages now, but we’re guessing this is the sort of thing that’ll get most folks to really take notice: a promise to cut supercomputing costs by a factor of ten. That rather impressive feat comes courtesy of the company’s new Tesla 20-series GPUs, which come in the form of both single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2 cards and full-fledged GPU computing systems, and promise a whole host of cost-saving benefits for everything from ray tracing to 3D cloud computing to data analytics. Of course we are still talking about “cheap” in supercomputing terms — look for these to run between $2,499 and $18,995 when they roll out sometime in the second quarter of 2010
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NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs promise to dramatically cut supercomputing costs