Servers with Nvidia's Tesla P100 GPU will ship next year
Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said.
Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray and IBM will start taking orders for servers with the Tesla P100 in the fourth quarter of this year, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif.
The servers will start shipping in the first quarter of next year, Huang said Tuesday.
The GPU will also ship to companies designing hyperscale servers in-house and then to outsourced manufacturing shops. It will be available for in-house "cloud servers" by the end of the year, Huang said.
Nvidia is targeting the GPUs at deep-learning systems, in which algorithms help with correlating and classifying data. These systems could help self-driving cars, robots and drones identify objects. The goal is to accelerate the learning time of such systems so the accuracy of results improves over time.
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