Some of the world’s fastest computers employ Nvidia’s graphics processor for computer vision, deep learning and scientific calculations, and a new GPU will supercharge these applications.

The Tesla P100, which plugs into the PCI-Express slots of supercomputers, will speed up tasks like economic forecasting and weather modeling.

The GPU is also targeted at servers and will play a big role in helping self-driving cars, robots and drones identify objects.

Deep-learning systems with the GPUs in data centers will improve cloud-based image recognition, classification, natural language processing and speech recognition.

One system with Tesla P100 chips is Nvidia’s DGX-1, which can be purchased for $129,000. It has eight Tesla P100 GPUs.

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