NVIDIA announces the world's smallest supercomputer that can be purchased under 20,000 yen

It is held in San Jose, USAGPU Technology conference, NVIDIA, a semiconductor maker, developed on the basis of the next generation mobile SoC "Tegra K1", a mobile supercomputer development kit for embedded systems "Jetson TK 1We announced.

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With 192 GPU cores in early 2014Next generation mobile SoC "Tegra K1" releasedNVIDIA NVIDIA released this time NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Developer Kit is a supercomputer installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory "TitanThe same architecture as "KeplerIt is based on the basis. According to Jensen Huan CEO of NVIDIA, it is the world's first smallest mobile supercomputer.

Jetson TK 1 has 326 gigaflops computing power, and 326 billion floating point operations per second are possible. Jetson TK1 which adopted the embedded system is expected to be applied to computers that can recognize spaces and objects at the same level as human beings as well as robots and automated driving cars in addition to household, industrial and medical equipment,IRobot CorporationMr. Chris Jones received the announcement of Jetson TK 1 and said, "The computing power and energy efficiency of Jetson TK 1 will contribute greatly to the development of robots that recognize objects in real time and navigate autonomously" It is.


NVIDIA is accepting reservations for Jetson TK 1 Developer Kit, and the price is $ 192 (about 19,600 yen).

Buy Jetson TK1 Development Kit | NVIDIA Developer Zone
https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1


Also, NVIDIA, along with Jetson TK 1,Publish a new GPU roadmap. On the roadmap, a new GPU "Pascal" following the "Maxwell" of the next-generation GPU architecture has been announced and attention is paid to the future trend of NVIDIA.