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Hey guys, i've been wondering for ages, what do Nvidia Tesla's do? All i've seen, is people calling them 'graphics accelerator' does this mean if you pair it with a quadro it will be faster?...

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Primary use for them: 

  • in simulations and in large scale calculations (especially floating-point calculations)
  • for high-end image generation for applications in professional and scientific fields
  • with the use of OpenCL or CUDA.

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Use google.

i tried to look but couldn't find much....anyway, isn't this supposed to be a tech forum??? 

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Use google.

or us....

Also this is against coc

 

 

Primary use for them: 

  • in simulations and in large scale calculations (especially floating-point calculations)
  • for high-end image generation for applications in professional and scientific fields
  • with the use of OpenCL or CUDA.

 

Couldnt have said it better my self. Only thing im going to add is they are tested a lot more to ensure against failures

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They are not a video card per say, as in using them to output graphics. They are specialty cards, like the Intel Phi card, where you can code specific programs and have them run against these GPU processors. They are VERY efficient, much more so then CPU's, at certain types of calculations. 

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my old 8800 GTX (geforce 8 series) is apparently based on Tesla, but all it does is prevent dust from settling underneath it on the shelf.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(microarchitecture)

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my old 8800 GTX (geforce 8 series) is apparently based on Tesla, but all it does is prevent dust from settling underneath it on the shelf.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(microarchitecture)

Tesla (Product line) is not Tesla (Architecture). 

How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb?


None, that's a hardware problem.  :D

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Tesla (Product line) is not Tesla (Architecture). 

 

the question did not specify which. I know about the product line and its uses (http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-supercomputing-solutions.html), but the name originated with the architecture it first launched with.

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What ever they do, the new Tesla K80 looks really, really sexy.

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Tesla's have some special features including:

- ECC (Error Correcting memory)

- Much higher FP64 (64 bit floating point numbers -> doubles) performance then gtx cards (only Titan/Titan Black/ Titan Z good high FP64 performance)

- Bidirectional communication over PCI-e

- Different drivers

- Better support

 

Sums it up:

http://hexus.net/tech/tech-explained/graphics/29922-tesla-vs-geforce/

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