NVIDIA’s Maximus Technology – Quadro + Tesla, Launching Today
Back at SIGGRAPH 2011 NVIDIA announced Project Maximus, an interesting technology initiative to allow customers to combine Tesla and Quadro products together in a single workstation and to use their respective strengths. At the time NVIDIA didn’t have a launch date to announce, but as this is a software technology rather than a hardware product, the assumption has always been that it would be a quick turnaround. And a quick turnaround it has been: just over 3 months later NVIDIA is officially launching Project Maximus as NVIDIA Maximus Technology.
So what is Maximus Technology? As NVIDIA likes to reiterate to their
customers it’s not a new product, it’s a new technology – a new way to
use NVIDIA’s existing Quadro and Tesla products together. There’s no new
hardware involved, just new features in NVIDIAs drivers and new hooks
exposed to application developers. Or put more succinctly, in the same
vein that Optimus was a driver technology to allow the transparent
combination of NVIDIA mobile GPUs with Intel IGPs, Maximus is a driver
technology to allow the transparent combination of NVIDIA’s Quadro and
Tesla products.
Back at SIGGRAPH 2011 NVIDIA announced Project Maximus, an interesting technology initiative to allow customers to combine Tesla and Quadro products together in a single workstation and to use their respective strengths. At the time NVIDIA didn’t have a launch date to announce, but as this is a software technology rather than a hardware product, the assumption has always been that it would be a quick turnaround. And a quick turnaround it has been: just over 3 months later NVIDIA is officially launching Project Maximus as NVIDIA Maximus Technology.
