NVIDIA A100 introduces double precision Tensor Cores to deliver the biggest leap in HPC performance since the introduction of GPUs. Combined with 80GB of the fastest GPU memory, researchers can reduce a 10-hour, double-precision simulation to under four hours on A100. HPC applications can also leverage TF32 to achieve up to 11X higher throughput for single-precision, dense matrix-multiply operations.
For the HPC applications with the largest datasets, A100 80GB’s additional memory delivers up to a 2X throughput increase with Quantum Espresso, a materials simulation. This massive memory and unprecedented memory bandwidth makes the A100 80GB the ideal platform for next-generation workloads.