Guest writer Gary Sims is a freelance technology consultant from the UK. He is the senior blogger of the Hi-Tech Squad.

NVIDIA today announced that HP’s most powerful and expandable workstation–the HP Z800 Workstation–is now configurable with up to two NVIDIA Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs).

Tesla is NVIDIA’s first dedicated General Purpose GPU. General-purpose computing on graphics processing units is the technique of using a GPU to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU. The model for GPU computing is to use a CPU and GPU together in a heterogeneous computing model. The sequential part of the application runs on the CPU and the computationally-intensive part runs on the GPU. From the user’s perspective, the application just runs faster because it is using the high-performance of the GPU to boost performance.

Based on the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA architecture, Tesla GPUs are taking the high performance computing (HPC) industry by storm, delivering performance increases to critical codes across multiple fields.

“The adoption of Tesla GPUs is the fastest of any new processor technology in the history of HPC(1),” said Andy Keane, general manager of Tesla business at NVIDIA. “We are delighted to see a leader such as HP begin to ship Tesla GPU-enabled systems into the market and to help accelerate the work of their customers.”

For more information on NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing solutions, please visit: http://www.nvidia.com/tesla

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