ISC'12 - NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs offer performance breakthroughs on popular high performance computing (HPC) applications -- ranging from seismic processing to life sciences to video processing -- according to new benchmarks NVIDIA released today.

Based on the new NVIDIA Kepler computing architecture, the Tesla K10 GPU delivers the industry's highest single precision performance (4.58 teraflops) and highest memory bandwidth (320 GB/sec) in a single accelerator. This is 12 times higher single precision flops and 6.4 times higher memory bandwidth than the latest-generation Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs.

The Tesla K10 GPU outperforms CPUs and previous-generation GPUs across the board on the most popular, compute-intensive applications for four key market segments, including:

• Defense: video analytics, video stabilization, orthorectification, computer vision
• Life and material sciences: molecular dynamics
• Oil and gas: seismic processing, reverse time migration
• Media and entertainment: video editing, video rendering/transcoding, ray tracing

"A distinct advantage of the Tesla K10 GPUs is that it excels in two key areas that have a dramatic impact on overall application performance: floating point operation and memory bandwidth," said Sumit Gupta, senior director of Tesla business at NVIDIA. "Together, these enable the K10 GPU to deliver substantial out-of-the-box performance increases for the top science, engineering and commercial applications with little or no effort on the part of the developer."

New Performance Records on AMBER and LAMMPS
On AMBER, a leading biomolecular simulation software application, four Tesla K10 GPUs achieved world record performance, delivering far superior results than what was available on multiple racks of servers just a few years ago.

The Tesla system achieved performance of 76 nanoseconds of computer simulation time in a day for a 23,558 atom molecule, outstripping the previous record set with four Tesla M2090s last year, providing supercomputing performance to thousands of individual researchers to fuel further innovation in such areas as new drug discovery and more effective materials.

"In biomolecular science, adding a few more nanoseconds of simulation time can make a world of difference in the ability of researchers to study and better understand the behavior of complex biological systems," said Ross Walker, assistant research professor, San Diego Supercomputing Center. "It still blows my mind that a single Tesla K10 outperforms some of the largest CPU clusters. The benefit it offers researchers is tremendous, enabling them to accelerate the search for new and better treatments for a host of diseases and disorders."

The Tesla K10 GPU also delivers the highest performance on LAMMPS, another application widely used by the life sciences research community. Running the LAMMPS Lennard Jones Liquid Benchmark, a single Tesla K10 GPU outperforms a Tesla M2090 GPU by 80 percent, delivering the equivalent performance of a cluster with 64 x86 CPUs.

Accelerating the Search for Energy
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs continue to deliver the highest performance on reverse time migration (RTM) applications for seismic processing in the oil and gas exploration industry, and for image processing in the computer vision industry. Petrobras, the national oil and gas company of Brazil, achieved an 1.8x speed up on its RTM application on the Tesla K10 GPU, as compared to a Tesla M2090 GPU within the same power envelope.

NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPUs are available from leading OEMs, including Appro Supercomputer Solutions, Dell, HP, IBM, SGI and Supermicro, as well as through NVIDIA distribution partners. More information about the Tesla K10 is available on the NVIDIA Tesla website.

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Not exactly hardware related, but a real cool vid to watch, check it out. The Marmalade, a special effects studio in Germany, has created an incredible high speed robot used to film precise moments during ultra high frame rate takes. The results look so perfect it looks like CGI!!


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There's a good impression of what a 7990 or 7970 X2 could look like. 4Gamer published some nice shots of the FirePro W9000 dual-GPU card that was briefly shown at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit, you can view the pictures over here.

This upcoming workstation card features two Tahiti GPUs, it promises 4 teraflops of single-precision and 1 teraflop of double-precision floating point performance. The W9000 comes with 6GB GDDR5 memory, uses two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors and features a cooling solution with three 90mm fans.

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AMD CTO Mark Papemaster teased the next-generation FirePro W9000 workstation card at the final day of AMD's Fusion Developer Summit 2012. Full details of this card will follow at SIGGRAPH in August 2012, but for now we know that the card offers 4 teraflops of single-precision and 1 teraflops of double-precision computing power.

This is the first time we saw a three fan, an enthusiast configuration

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AMD today announced immediate availability of the AMD FirePro W600 professional graphics card, the company

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ARM shared details about the Mali-450, a new graphics processor based on the company's Utgard architecture. The Mali-450 promises twice the performance of the Mali-400 and can be scaled up to eight cores (also twice as much).

The Mali-450, which is offered as synthesizable RTL, is intended for use in entry-level and mid-range smartphones. The core, codenamed Tyr, has a common software platform with Mali-400 and provides market-leading OpenGL ES2.0 performance.

Steve Steele, senior product manager in the media processing division, said that the Mali-450 was not simply a doubling of the multicore scalability of the Mali-400. He said that tweaks had been done to the internal graphics engines "You would get better performance from the Mali-450 but it occupies slightly more area," he said.

ARM's recommendation is that for lower graphics burdens the Mali-400 with one to four cores is used while for higher performance the Mali-450 with five to eight cores is used.

There are close links between the GPU and Cortex-based CPUs playing to ARM's strength and allowing minimum transistor count in the interface, thereby further saving energy and easing time to market.

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We're a but late with posting this one but you can download nVIDIA PhysX System Software 9.12.0507.

The New PhysX System Software 9.12.0507 appeared in a 302.71 GPU drivers set. Release Notes are unknown.

Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series, 100-series, 200-series, 300-series, 400-series, 500-series, and 600-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.

• Includes the latest PhysX runtime builds to support all released PhysX content.
• Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series, 100-series, 200-series, 300-series, 400-series, 500-series, and 600-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
  Note: Some applications may have higher minimum requirements.
• Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in many games and demos, some of which are highlighted in PowerPack downloads here.

Download

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AMD is working on three new Radeon HD 7900 series SKUs. This includes the dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and the Radeon HD 7930. The 7990 is reportedly delayed until August to make it perform within "acceptable" range of the GeForce GTX 690, while the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition could be just around the corner. The 7930 on the other hand is expected after June, when NVIDIA's upper-mainstream SKUs become available.

The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is aimed against NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680. AMD will raise the reference clock speeds for the HD 7970.

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A dual GPU 680 baed graphcis card has been on display at Computex. The 2WIN Gemini  comes with 4GB GDDR5 memory and is based on two Kepler GK104 GPUs (like GeForce GTX 690) EVGA

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A little too big and a little too fat ?

At Computex Colorful showcased a special model of GeForce GTX 680. The GTX 680  features a metal cover with iGame V-shaped logo with again added heatsinks lined up towards six 6mm copper plated heatpipes.

It is near silly, no wait .. it is silly as this is what ? a five slot configuration on the motherboard. Details about actual clocks were not revealed yet. This card will be hard to get if released at all ;)

Click on the thumbnails to be shocked.

   

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Tech Report spotted EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 Classified, this model features a hot-clocked GPU with 14-phase power system, 4GB GDDR5 (double as much as standard) and a larger version of the blower found on the standard card. You can expect it to become available later this month.

This Classified version of the GTX 680 features a hot-clocked GPU fed by a 14-phase power delivery system. The reference design uses only four phases, EVGA says, and a custom PCB was required to accommodate the additional power circuitry. Rather than making the card longer, EVGA made it taller. The difference is nicely illustrated in the picture above. You'll notice that the Classified uses a larger version of the blower found on the standard card. Most graphics card makers seem to be relying on multi-fan coolers these days, but EVGA prefers this blower setup because it pumps hot air out of the case rather than recirculating it.

EVGA also showcased the Signature GTX 690 Hydro Copper, which features a custom water block (that will be available separately, as well). 
 

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Alan Willard, senior technical artist at Epic Games, gives you a ten minute walk through of Unreal Engine 4.




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HIS jumped the 7800 bandwagon as well with several models, and for this review we'll be looking at their Radeon HD 7850 IceqX TurboX model. The product comes factory overclocked very nicely for you as it is running a precipitous 1 GHz clock frequency.

HIS uses a small PCB and pretty slim dual-slot cooler making the card very easy to install. Despite that factory overclock and that cooler the noise levels remain at normal levels whereas the GPU temperatures remain downright excellent. read the review here.

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Enermax revealed the Triathlor at Computex, a new line of mid-range power supplies available in a variety of sub-1000W capacities. All models use a 135mm fan, and they're available with both fixed and modular cables.

The modular ones are labeled Triathlor FC. A defining feature with all models is 80 Plus Bronze (~82 percent efficiency) and ErP Lot 6 compliance. The fixed cables on all Triathlor models feature Enermax' signature gold-stripe sleeving, while the detachable cables included in the modular ones are flat and black to ease air-flow.

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Rockstar has released the first patch for the PC version of Max Payne 3. This patch addresses the '0MB of video memory' issues, resolves stuttering on some video cards, fixes reported issues of game locked in incorrect aspect ratio, fixes issues of mouse acceleration affecting aiming and adds a commandline option to disable mouse acceleration. The patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the game and you can view its complete changelog below:
Fixed reported issues with needing service packs, compatibility with incorrect OS.

• Fixed a range of issues which could have led to crashes on startup and in-game.
• Fixed reported issues of audio dropouts when no audio device was plugged in, or when the headphones/speakers disconnected while in game.
• Fixed reported issues of mouse being sluggish, especially in prone and Shootdodge. Increased top end range of mouse sensitivity, but kept the slider from 1-10, allowing the user more range in their sensitivity setting.
• Fixed reported issues of mouse acceleration affecting aiming
• Included commandline option to disable mouse acceleration, -nomouseaccel (In a future update, this will be added as an option in the Mouse Controls menu).
• Fixed reported issues of game locked in incorrect aspect ratio, or alt-entering and having incorrect aspect ratio. Added commandline option for locked aspect ratio as commandline option -aspectratio width:height (ie. -aspectratio 4:3 / -aspectratio 16:9) In a future update, this will be added as an option in the Graphics menu.
• Fixed reported issues of the video card reporting having 0MB of video memory available. Users unable to adjust Graphics options because of this (Also helps fix stuttering on some video cards).

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HIS showed off its brand new AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 video card reports tweaktown. The graphics card comes with a new design cooler called IceQ X2 cooler that will have to pull a trick or two to deal with the two onboard GPUs. The cooler is big alright, it will eat away three card slots but obviously it will return a heap of gaming performance alright.

If you browse through the photo's then you'll spot a a total of three 8-pin power connectors.So the PCIE slot delivers 75 Watt and then the three 8-pin connectors each can deliver 150 Watt, yep that's 525 Watt available to feed the card.

 On the conectivity O side of things there you'll spot four mini DisplayPort connectors and a DVI connector.

  

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Ten years years ago NVIDIA revealed the Dawn tech demo and now the company shows off A New Dawn, a tech demo that illustrates a decade of techniques and advancement made in the realm of real-time 3D graphics.  

Ten years later, at last Dawn has found a new home. In A New Dawn, the demo starts not with the main character, but with a sweeping overview of a lush rainforest. Ferns gently sway in the moonlight, vines sprawl across an ancient tree, and budding flowers cast a gentle glow on the surrounding bark. As our character comes into view, we find her swinging on a vine in her new tree home. The tree is rendered to the finest level of detail using DirectX 11 tessellation. At its peak, over four million triangles are used to showcase Dawn's environment. The downloadable demo of A New Dawn will be released on GeForce.com later this month and you'll need a GeForce GTX 690 or two GTX 600 series GPUs to fully experience the demo...

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We already posted a thing or two about the MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning at display on Computex. The MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning is complementing the new Mpower line of motherboards (matching colors) the new N680GTX Lightning is bound to be released this month.

The card comes with 2 GB of memory, the new Twin Frozr IV cooling solution and an Unlocked Digital Power VRM, which gives users fine control over GPU, memory, and PLL (auxiliary) power domains using Guru3D's home grown Afterburner software.

I have gathered a couple of photo's for you guys on videocard at display at the MSI booth. below some photo's of the Lightning editions of the R7970 and all new GTX 680 (whis sexy !).

Click the thumbnails to go through them:

  

 

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Check out the dual Nvidia Kepler GK104 based MARS III, featuring an unprecedented 8GB of GDDR5 memory and a triple-fan dual slot cooler as reported by vrzone:

ASUS's ROG MARS III is decked with the trademark red and black theme of their Rampage/Maximus motherboards, and uses a triple fan heatpiped cooler within double slot form factor, a welcome change from the obtuse three-slot of their DirectCU II cards from past. There are three 8-pin PCIe connectors (implying up to a whopping 525W of power draw potential) present on the board and a red button to activate 100% fan speed for overclocking. For display outputs we get a single mini-DP port and three DVI headers. Sadly, there is only a single SLi connector which limits things up to only 4-way GPU.

The project manager on-site told us that the board we are seeing is still an early engineering sample and that they will still be making some tweaks to its PCB and cooler design before shipping sometime later this year. Since its predecessor MARS II (dual GTX 580) was one of the most expensive and elusive cards ever, we won't be too surprised if the MARS III follows suit.

  

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The ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 Graphics Card just reared its multi-monitor head in Asia. The ROG (Republic of Gamers) card holds a single GPU.

Armed by a 20 phase Digital VRM the card should be a little tweking marvel. Obviously we expect the card to be factory overclocked, though any information on that has not yet been disclosed. The card will get some nifty features like VGA Hotwire, TweakIT (hardware voltage-speed control using buttons, one-push fan override), ProbeIT (voltage fan-speed monitoring points). The card will have 3GB of GDDR5 graphics memory.

 

 

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