IBM, NVIDIA to Supercharge Corporate Data Center Applications

IBM, NVIDIA to Supercharge Corporate Data Center Applications

Companies Tap GPU-Enabled Supercomputing to Analyze Enterprise Data on the Fly

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DENVER-SC13-Nov. 18, 2013-NVIDIA and IBM today announced plans to collaborate on GPU-accelerated versions of IBM's wide portfolio of enterprise software applications.

The move marks the first time that GPU accelerator technology will move beyond the realm of supercomputing and into the heart of enterprise-scale data centers. The collaboration aims to enable IBM customers to more rapidly process, secure and analyze massive volumes of streaming data.

Harnessing GPU technology to IBM's enterprise software platforms will bring advanced, in-memory processing to a wider variety of new application areas, said Sean Poulley, vice president of Databases and Data Warehousing at IBM. We are looking at a new generation of higher-performance solutions to help data center customers overcome their most challenging computing problems.

Companies to Integrate POWER Processor, Tesla GPUs

NVIDIA and IBM also plan to integrate the joint-processing capabilities of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with IBM POWER processors. The move makes it easier and more efficient for a wider range of companies to employ a style of supercomputing hardware used primarily by the scientific and technical communities for computing tasks like space exploration, decoding the human genome and speeding new products to market.

By combining IBM POWER8 CPUs with the world's highest-performance and most energy-efficient GPU accelerators, the companies aim to deliver a new class of technology that maximizes performance and efficiency for all types of scientific, engineering, big data analytics and other high performance computing (HPC) workloads.

This partnership will bring supercomputer performance to the corporate data center, expanding the use of GPU accelerators well beyond the traditional supercomputing and technical computing markets, said Ian Buck, vice president of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. It will also provide existing supercomputing and high performance computing customers with new choices and technologies to build powerful, energy-efficient systems that drive innovation and scientific discovery

IBM Power Systems will fully support existing scientific, engineering and visualization applications developed with the NVIDIA CUDA programming model architecture, allowing supercomputing centers and HPC customers to immediately take advantage of groundbreaking performance advantages. IBM also plans to make its Rational brand of enterprise software development tools available to supercomputing developers, making it easier for programmers to develop cutting-edge applications.

The partnership between NVIDIA and IBM builds on the August announcement of the OpenPOWER Consortium, in which IBM, NVIDIA, Google, Mellanox and Tyan aim to establish an open ecosystem based on IBM's POWER architecture.

About NVIDIA Tesla GPU Accelerators

NVIDIA Tesla GPUs are massively parallel accelerators based on the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing platform and programming model. Tesla GPUs are designed from the ground up for power-efficient, high performance computing, computational science and supercomputing, delivering dramatically higher application acceleration for a range of scientific and commercial applications than a CPU-only approach.

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About IBM

For more information on IBM Software, visit www.ibm.com/software.

For more information on IBM High Performance Computing technologies, visit www.ibm.com/technicalcomputing.

About NVIDIA

Since 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has pioneered the art and science of visual computing. The companys technologies are transforming a world of displays into a world of interactive discovery - for everyone from gamers to scientists, and consumers to enterprise customers. More information at http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/press_room.html and http://blogs.nvidia.com.

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the effects and benefits of GPU accelerator technology, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs combined with IBM POWER processors, and the collaboration between NVIDIA and IBM are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners' products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 28, 2013. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantee

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