At the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia unveiled the Tesla P100, the latest addition to Nvidia’s Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform (TACP). The accelerator unit is being marketed as the most advanced hyperscale datacenter accelerator ever built – with a claimed 12x improvement over the previous Maxwell architecture, thanks to the new Pascal architecture. Designed to provide the equivalent performance of hundreds of general purpose CPUs in a much smaller package, and with significantly lower opex costs, Nvidia is targeting the next-gen datacenter use cases, which consist largely of artificial intelligence applications – which require very different compute resources than most current datacenters can provide. Cloud computing and the supercomputing that powers dense data analytics are very important for the progression of…