NVIDIA announced that they would participate at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s next hybrid supercomputer. It would bring its NVIDIA Tegra ARM CPU and high performance NVIDIA GPU. Examples of the next generation energy efficient large scale systems were displayed at the SC11 Conference held in Seattle, Washington.
The project is known as the EU Mont-Blanc Project. It would develop a portfolio of applications that would be compatible with the technology being developed in partnership with NVIDIA. Project leader Alex Ramirez notes that current systems require 40 percent or more of its energy to the CPUs. The Mont-Blanc architecture would use energy-efficient compute accelerators and ARM processors used in mobile and embedded devices to get four to ten times increase in energy efficiency by the year 2014.
NVIDIA said that they would release new software and hardware development kit for its ARM-based projects around the world. The kit would contain a new quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 ARM CPU with a discrete NVIDIA GPU. It would be released in the first half of 2012. The kit’s hardwre is being developed by SECO and will be supported by the NVIDIA CUDA parallel programming toolkit. It looks like energy-efficient processors will be available soon.
