NVIDIA GTC 2013 Roundup

摘要

Mountain climbers know Piz Daint, measuring 9,700 ft., as part of Switzerland's snow-dusted Order Alps. Researchers and supercomputer nerds, however, know another Piz Daint-installed inside the Swiss National Super-computing Center (abbreviated as CSCS in Swiss). Because supercomputers are used for, among other things, accurate weather prediction, the microclimates of the Piz Daint in the Alps could be computed on the Piz Daint at the CSCS. The supercomputer is a Cray XC30 system. Its current performance is listed as 216 teraflops, according to Top500. org. But it's about to get faster, according to NVIDIA: When it's retrofitted with Kepler graphics processing units (GPUs), its speed will go up to 1 petaflop.