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Nvidia Tesla is Nvidia's brand name for their products targeting stream processing and/or general purpose GPU. Products use GPUs from the G80 series onward. The underlying Tesla microarchitecture of the GPUs and the Tesla product line are named after pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
With their very high computational power (measured in floating point operations per second or FLOPS) compared to microprocessors, the Tesla products target the high-performance computing market. As of 2012[update], Nvidia Teslas power some of the world's fastest supercomputers, including Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tianhe-1A, in Tianjin, China.
The lack of ability to output images to a display was the main difference between Tesla products and the consumer level GeForce cards and the professional level Nvidia Quadro cards, but the latest Tesla C-class products include one Dual-Link DVI port. For equivalent single precision output, Fermi-based Nvidia GeForce cards have four times less dual-precision performance. Tesla products primarily operate:
Nvidia intends to offer ARMv8 processor cores embedded into future Tesla GPUs as part of Project Denver. This will be a 64-bit follow on to the 32-bit Tegra chips.
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