Bill Dally, the company's chief scientist and senior vice-president of research, forecasts a time when GPUs, not CPUs, will do most computer work. CPUs "burn a lot of power" executing tasks that may be unnecessary in today's computing environment, he added
The graphics processing units should speed up server performance in specific-use cases, the company said. The blades include two full-length PCI-Express slots that will be able to accommodate up to two 250-watt graphics cards