NVIDIA Tesla Technology

Tesla S870 In Action

During SC-07 (Supercomputing Show 2007, where we took these pictures, by the way) NVIDIA displayed a cluster containing four Tesla S870 systems attached to eight servers for a total of 16 Tesla C870 cards or around 8 TFLOPS of available performance.

Figure 10: Cluster with four Tesla S870 systems and eight servers.

Figure 11: Rear view of the cluster, the number of cables is really im
pressive.

This system was running a biological simulation comparing the performance of the server cluster with and without the Tesla systems. As you can see in Figure 12, the cluster got a 9x performance gain with the use of the four S870 systems.

Figure 12: Performance gain brought by the Tesla S870 systems.

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