NVIDIA, a global leader in graphics processing units, has recently touted the benefits and performance of their champion Tesla K40 GPU accelerator as well as a free webinar we’re hosting this Thursday at 9am PST.
on January 21, 2014
Weather forecasting. Tracking billions of tweets. Mitigating big-time financial risks. These burly applications gobble up computing power like an NFL linebacker plowing through a box of Ding Dongs.
So when we tore the lid off the supercharged Tesla K40 GPU accelerator – the highest-performance GPU ever built – our customers quickly put it to work tackling some of their toughest problems. And their initial results show this GPU is even better than advertised.
Improving Weather Forecasting Weather prediction is one of the toughest computing jobs around.
The U.S. National Weather Service’s supercomputers run an application called WRF to forecast weather conditions throughout the country.
Dr. Bormin Huang, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses K40 GPUs to accelerate WRF to deliver more accurate, higher resolution forecasts.
His latest findings show that, at baseline, the Tesla K40 runs WRF nearly 30 percent faster than the Tesla K20.
Tracking Twitter Trends – Analyzing a Billion Tweets in Real-time
A staggering 2.5 exabytes of data is created every day on the internet (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data). Top social media sites contribute to this massive volume of information, and can be a treasure trove of info on the latest trends.
But in the real time world of Twitter, it’s a major challenge to extract useful data, and then analyze the data in real-time – before today’s trends become yesterday’s news.
Reduced Financial Risk
Monte Carlo algorithms – used to analyze the valuation of complex financial instruments – are among the most important in the financial services industry.
Software vendor Xcelerit uses GPU accelerators to deliver unprecedented performance for applications built with Monte Carlo algorithms.
Once again, the Tesla K40 dramatically accelerates the application — compared to the Tesla K20X, it’s consistently 20-30 percent faster.
Source: NVIDIA
