Mathematica Users Get 100x Performance Boost From NVIDIA CUDA

World's Most Powerful Global Computation Software Now GPU Accelerated

SC08-AUSTIN, TX-NOVEMBER 18, 2008-At SC08, Wolfram Research will demonstrate a new version of Mathematica, the world's most powerful general computational software, that integrates CUDA®, NVIDIA's parallel GPU computing architecture. This new version is expected to give Mathematica users an unprecedented performance increase of 10-100X in numerical computing, modeling, simulation and visual computations, without the need to learn or write C code.

"Since its initial release, Mathematica has been adopted by over 3 million professionals across the entire global technical computing community, and it has had a profound effect on how computers are used across many fields," said Joy Costa, director of global partnerships at Wolfram Research. "The prospect of a hundred fold increase in Mathematica 7 performance is staggering. CUDA enabled Mathematica will revolutionize the world of numerical computation."

"With Mathematica 7, researchers and scientists can easily tap the enormous parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPU's through a familiar high level interface," said Andy Keane, general manager of the GPU Computing business at NVIDIA. This is truly transformative, giving Mathematica users computational horsepower like never before and reducing computation time in some cases from days to a matter of minutes."

The demonstration of the CUDA-accelerated release of Mathematica coincides with the launch of the NVIDIA® Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer at this year's SC08. Priced in the range of traditional PC workstations, Tesla Personal Supercomputers are unrivalled in price and performance. Available in configurations of up to 4 Tesla GPUs in a single system, Tesla Personal Supercomputers deliver up to 4 Teraflops of computing performance from up to 960 parallel processing cores.

With desktop systems based on Tesla GPUs, Mathematica users will be able to perform complex, data-intensive computations right at their desk, negating the need to write native C programs or wait for time on a public cluster, a process which can often take days or even weeks.

The CUDA accelerated version of Mathematica is expected to be available in Q1 2009.

For more information on Mathematica, visit: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica and for more information on the NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer, please visit http://www.nvidia.com/tesla.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® graphics products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit http://www.nvidia.com.