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NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Communicate Faster Over Mellanox InfiniBand Networks
New Software Solution Reduces Dependency on CPUs
| Source: NVIDIA
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - November 18, 2009) - SC09 -- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ : NVDA ) and Mellanox Technologies Ltd. today introduced new software that
will increase cluster application performance by as much as 30% by reducing
the latency that occurs when communicating over Mellanox InfiniBand to
servers equipped with NVIDIA Tesla™ GPUs.
The system architecture of a GPU-CPU server requires the CPU to initiate
and manage memory transfers between the GPU and the InfiniBand network.
The new software solution will enable Tesla GPUs to transfer data to pinned
system memory that a Mellanox InfiniBand solution is able to read and
transmit over the network. The result is increased overall system
performance and efficiency.
"NVIDIA Tesla GPUs deliver large increases in performance across each node
in a cluster, but in our production runs on TSUBAME 1 we have found that
network communication becomes a bottleneck when using multiple GPUs," said
Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka from Tokyo Institute of Technology. "Reducing the
dependency on the CPU by using InfiniBand will deliver a major boost in
performance in high performance GPU clusters, thanks to the work of NVIDIA
and Mellanox, and will further enhance the architectural advances we will
make in TSUBAME2.0."
"In GPU-based clusters, most of the compute intensive processing is running
on the GPUs," said Gilad Shainer, director of high performance computing
and technical marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "It's a natural evolution
of the system architecture to enable GPUs to communicate more intelligently
over InfiniBand. This helps create a computing platform that will enable
future Exascale computing and dramatically increase performance for a broad
spectrum of applications."
"Anyone who cares about performance in their datacenter uses InfiniBand,"
said Andy Keane, general manager, Tesla business at NVIDIA. "This new
feature will further improve application performance on GPU-based clusters
by reducing the dependency on the CPU for communicating over InfiniBand."
This software capability will be available in the NVIDIA CUDA™
architecture toolkit beginning in Q2 2010 and will work on existing Tesla
S1070 1U computing systems and Tesla M1060 module-based clusters and also
with the new Tesla 20-series S2050 and S2070 1U systems.
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