DALLAS, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) has
become the first company to offer the NVIDIA®
Tesla® M60 GPU accelerator in the cloud, giving
companies of all sizes easier and more affordable access to the
latest virtual desktop applications with no compromise to
performance.
IBM continues to be in lock step with NVIDIA in bringing its
latest GPU technology to the cloud. The Tesla M60 joins other
NVIDIA GPU offerings on IBM Cloud, including the Tesla K80 and
Tesla K10 GPUs, which accelerate deep learning, data analytics and
high performance computing (HPC) workloads.
By adding Tesla M60 GPU accelerators to other NVIDIA GPU
offerings on IBM Cloud, customers can deploy fewer, more powerful
cloud servers while churning through complex jobs faster. They can
speed through a range of compute-intensive workloads, including
data analytics, graphics, energy exploration and deep
learning/artificial intelligence. IBM is once again among the first
to market in bringing the latest NVIDIA GPU technology to the
cloud, which is driving the next wave of innovation and real-time
collaboration across a wide gamut of industries including
healthcare and financial services, oil and gas exploration, media,
architectural, engineering and construction.
The Tesla M60 with NVIDIA GRID™ virtualization technology helps
accelerate virtualized desktop applications, especially in the area
of CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing)
including AutoCAD. Companies can spin up these GPU resources on IBM
Cloud on an on-demand basis to help cut their processing time from
days (or weeks) to down to hours, compared to using CPU-only based
servers.
"With NVIDIA GPU technology on IBM Cloud, we are one step closer
to offering supercomputing performance on a pay-as-you-go basis,
which makes this new approach to tackling big data problems
accessible to customers of all sizes," says Jerry Gutierrez, HPC leader for SoftLayer, an
IBM Company. "We're at an inflection point in our industry, where
GPU technology is opening the door for the next wave of
breakthroughs across multiple industries."
"IBM and NVIDIA have a history of leadership in providing
world-class computing capabilities from the IBM Cloud," said
Jim McHugh, vice president and
general manager at NVIDIA. "For the first time, businesses can
deliver workstation-class graphics-intensive applications from the
cloud along with high performance computing."
GPUs work in conjunction with a server's CPU to accelerate
application performance. The CPU offloads compute-intensive
portions of the application to the GPU, which processes large
blocks of data at one time rather than sequentially boosting the
overall performance in a server environment. GPUs, accelerate more
than 400 scientific, engineering, deep learning, data analytics and
other HPC applications, are better for high performance computing
than CPUs alone because of the thousands of efficient,
high-performance cores designed to process information faster.
This performance boost has allowed IBM Cloud clients like MapD
to achieve groundbreaking results. By using IBM Cloud bare metal
servers infused with NVIDIA GPU technology, MapD has created a
super-high-speed database and visualization platform that filters
and correlates multiple dimensions of multi-billion row datasets in
milliseconds, without lag.
MapD Enables Lightning-Fast Data Exploration
With a mission to make big data exploration visually interactive
and insightful, MapD uses NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerators running
on SoftLayer bare metal servers to build its super-high-speed
database and visualization platform. The massive bandwidth and
parallelism delivered by NVIDIA GPUs enable the MapD database to
filter and correlate multiple dimensions of multi-billion row
datasets in milliseconds, without lag.
"Today, everyone is being inundated and overwhelmed by data and
today's database systems are simply to slow to handle it," says
Todd Mostak, CEO and founder of
MapD. "Imagine harnessing the parallel processing power of GPU
acceleration for a big data platform that can deliver up to a 100x
performance increase—all via the global IBM Cloud. This is what
we've done with MapD, a platform that can perform massive
calculations in real-time and provide visualization tools for
decision makers to gain instant insights and context from their
data, regardless of a user's location."
MapD analyzes multi-billion row datasets in just milliseconds,
but lightning speed is only part of the equation. By harnessing the
power of GPU acceleration in the scalable cloud, MapD is also able
offer this supercomputing performance on a pay-as-you-go basis,
which makes this new approach to tackling big data problems
accessible to customers of all sizes. Furthermore, the MapD
platform can be deployed in public or private cloud, in virtualized
environments, on-premise and in combinations of any of these
scenarios.
About IBM Cloud:
For more information, visit:
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing.
Press Contact:
Andre
Fuochi
IBM
469-394-7274
afuochi@us.ibm.com
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