NVIDIA Quadro graphics are engineered to deliver professional graphics performance for advanced visualization, medical imaging, scientific computing, digital film production, and HD broadcasting. With features such as a unified architecture, which dynamically allocates the workload to vertex or pixel shaders, Shader Model 4.0 technology for better photorealistic effects, GPU computing for complex visualization problems, and massive frame buffers for interactive visualization of large datasets, NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards pair impressive image quality with outstanding performance.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 features 1 .5GB GDDR3 memory, a 384-bit memory interface. The memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/sec, and the maximum power consumption is 171Wh.

Koo Gee Bum, at KISTI explains why the Center selected NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 to optimize the high-performance visuals: “We first considered using a less-powerful graphics card to drive our large-scale visualization system, but we soon realized that achieving advanced performance would require an advanced graphics solution. The obvious choice was NVIDIA Quadro graphics. With Quadro graphics cards in our systems, we achieve far superior performance over general-use graphics and can deliver an outstanding visual experience for the Center.”

“Designed to provide the high-speed graphics performance required for challenging applications, NVIDIA Quadro graphics are being chosen by professionals worldwide for a variety of workstation and visual computing systems.” says Walter Mundt-Blum, vice president World Wide Sales, NVIDIA Professional Solutions Group. “NVIDIA is fully committed to support and help developers and scientists at the KISTI Supercomputing Center to continue solving the complex and difficult challenges in visualization.”

The KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) Supercomputing Center is the largest provider of supercomputing resources and high performance networks in Korea. The KISTI Supercomputing Center began as the computer laboratory of KISTI in 1967 and first became a provider of supercomputing capacity in 1988.