Nvidia introduces its own Grid-based server: the Visual Computing Appliance

Nvidia has become a big advocate of cloud computing via a huge grid of processors (with graphics chips included) in data centers. And today, the world’s biggest standalone graphics chip maker announced that it will introduce its own server to enable that cloud computing.

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang launched the Nvidia Grid Visual Computing Appliance, or Grid VCA, at the company’s GPU Tech conference. This complete system is a full computer server, which companies can use in racks of computers in data centers that run complex visual applications that users can simply log in to.