Dell Builds High Performance Computing Workstations With Nvidia Tesla

on 05/05/2009, filed in Home > Computers

By using NVIDIA’s Tesla, Dell is looking at providing computer to niche computing markers like oil exploration, financial computing, molecular dynamics and many others. Tesla is based on the same GPU design than the recent GeForce GPUs but is sold as a non-graphics accelerator. By using the hundreds of processing units (that usually compute colors and pixels) to process non graphical data, companies can achieve supercomputer-performance at a fraction of the price and in a much smaller footprint and energy requirements.

Of course, Tesla doesn’t come for cheap, but in industries like oil and gas, the price to pay for computers is negligible they can get to these natural resources faster. It is similar for the financial community. A very small improvement (0.5%) in the accuracy of the computations can yield hundreds of millions of dollars in gains. You can also build your own Tesla computer

Dell: Dell Inc. is one of largest technology corporations in the world. Michael Dell started the company in 1984, and it sold computers built from stock components. Previously named PCs Limited, the company created the "Turbo PC," the company's first computer. In 1988, the company changed its name to Dell Computer Corporation. Dell sells personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, and computer peripherals. Dell acquired computer hardware company Alienware in 2006, and Perot Systems, an information technology services provider, in 2009. Dell is also considered as the third largest PC vendors in the world, next to HP and Lenovo (as of 12/30/2013).

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