For Supercomputing and Big Data Analytics

NVIDIA has rolled out the NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerator, claimed to be the world’s highest performance accelerator ever built, delivering performance to a widening range of scientific, engineering, high performance computing (HPC) and enterprise applications.

According to the company release, it provides double the memory and up to 40 percent higher performance than its predecessor.  

Featuring intelligent NVIDIA GPU Boost technology, which converts power headroom into a user-controlled performance boost, the Tesla K40 GPU accelerator enables users to unlock the untapped performance of a broad range of applications.

“GPU accelerators have gone mainstream in the HPC and supercomputing industries, enabling engineers and researchers to consistently drive innovation and scientific discovery,” said Sumit Gupta, general manager of Tesla Accelerated Computing products at NVIDIA. “With the breakthrough performance and higher memory capacity of the Tesla K40 GPU, enterprise customers can quickly crunch through massive volumes of data generated by their big data analytics applications.”

Based on the NVIDIA Kepler™ compute architecture – the highest performance, most efficient architecture ever built – the Tesla K40 GPU accelerator surpasses all other accelerators on two common measures of computational performance: 4.29 teraflops single-precision and 1.43 teraflops double-precision peak floating point performance.