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NVIDIA Tesla P100 release date 2016: Accelerator billed as next big thing in AI and HPC, out this fall

Maria Bernadette Castro June 21, 2016 03:48 AM EST

NVIDIA announces the Tesla P100 accelerator. | Reuters/Nir Elias

Santa Clara-based tech company NVIDIA has officially announced at the International Supercomputing Conference its latest PCI Express accelerator known as the Tesla P100.

Based on the powerful Pascal architecture, the NVIDIA Tesla P100 will be released later this year and promises to deliver on the biggest demands in computing, including Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing data center applications.

NVIDIA says that the Tesla P100 allows so-called "super nodes," which are equal to 32 commodity central processing unit-based nodes. This proved lucrative for NVIDIA, who was able to save on operational costs while boosting the performance of the accelerator.

"Dramatically scaling performance with fewer, more powerful Tesla P100-powered nodes puts more dollars into computing instead of vast infrastructure overhead," NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Vice president Ian Buck said via ZDnet.

Although less bulky, the NVIDIA Tesla P100 can handle substantial computing jobs, even with those that call of "trillions of calculations per second" as per Top Tech News.

The site adds that the NVIDIA Tesla P100 won't have a problem with powering the AI for self-driving cars drug discovery analyses and other massive supercomputing tasks.

It will only take one of NVIDIA's Tesla P100 accelerators to match the power of 50 CPU-only server nodes with the AMBER molecular dynamics code at work.

The NVIDIA Tesla P100 comes in a PCIe form factor and should work seamless with most GPU-accelerated servers. The accelerator is offered in two versions â€“ 12 GB and 16 GB VRAM.

The smaller model clocks in 6.8 teraflops and 540 GB per second of memory bandwidth while the latter generates jaw-dropping 18.7 teraflops and 720 GB per second of memory bandwidth.

"Tesla P100 accelerators deliver new levels of performance and efficiency to address some of the most important computational challenges of our time," Swiss National Supercomputing Center Director Thomas Schulthess said in a statement picked up by Top Tech News.

The NVIDIA Tesla P100 will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

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