NVIDIA Tesla C2070 Computing Processor 6GB GDDR5

This GPU is Nvidia Fermi not Tesla format CUDA processor but is in the Tesla family. It was not on the Nvidia certified page for the Dell Precision workstation which called out the K20x and requires a Q series video graphic card, not the video card that pares with the K20x. But it was offered used for about $550 probably because it is no longer manufactured instead of the $2000 + for the K20x. I put together a Dell T7500 with dual quad Zeon ,3.3 GHz processorsand 4 ea. 4TB hard drives in raid 1, 4 x faster write to disk and a .5TB SSD disk. Running MS 7 pro 64 with 48GB of ram the FTFE models we were running 4 hours without the S2070 ran in 10 minutes once the Remcon XF7 settings were optimized. We are not yet GPU limited and are working to find smaller improvements. Once we are Ill step up to the K20x as there may be another factor of 10 to be had. The C2070 and GPU computing is a huge qualitative step for desktop computing to approach super computing. The K40x might be another order up again. After this GPU I can never go back to just Intel processors again.

The NVIDIA Tesla computing processor is fantastic platform for anybody that wants a super computer without the cost, power consumption and complexity that comes with a cloud based platform like Amazon's EC2. If you are developing compute intensive applications that are compute intensive (modelling, simulation, convolution ..etc) algorithms - look no further. There is abundant software including math libraries that come from the vendor.