GPU cluster

The hardware classification of GPU clusters fall into two categories: Heterogeneous and Homogeneous.

Vendors NVIDIA provides a list of dedicated Tesla Preferred Partners (TPP) with the capability of building and delivering a fully configured GPU cluster using the Tesla 20-series GPGPUs.

AMAX Information Technologies, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics are some of the few companies that provide a complete line of GPU clusters and systems.

[1] The software components that are required to make many GPU-equipped machines act as one include: Mapping an algorithm to run a GPU cluster is somewhat similar to mapping an algorithm to run on a traditional computer cluster.

Example: rather than distributing pieces of an array from RAM, a texture is divided up amongst the nodes of the GPU cluster.