Avnet Prefers Nvidia

Distributor joins vendor's Preferred Partner programme to drive high-performance computing (HPC) growth

Avnet Technology Solutions has become a member of the Nvidia Tesla Preferred Partner Programme to help HPC specialists drive growth in expanding industries such as life sciences, finance and manufacturing.

The Tesla programme is a sales, market and business development programme for VARs, OEMs and ODMs specialising in HPC.

As a programme member, Avnet will provide its partners and resellers across EMEA with advanced server and workstation platforms with the Nvidia Tesla K20 family of GPU accelerators.

Avnet will also receive a number of benefits as a new member, including early access to Nvidia products, sales and marketing tools and support, technical support and training programmes.

Rajesh Suman, vice president of computer components at Avnet Technology Solutions EMEA, said: "Joining the Nvidia partner programme expands our ability to provide resellers and partners with solutions that improve application performance up to several orders of magnitude faster, addressing some of the most challenging computational tasks such as processing financial trades, gridding oil in the sea and evaluating solar systems."

"Our channel partners can also leverage our extensive portfolio of components, distribution and integration services to improve time to market, adding significant value to their business" he added.

Walter Mundt-Blum, vice president of professional solutions EMEA at Nvidia, said: "The Tesla Preferred Partner programme enables partners to provide specialised GPU-accelerated computing solutions to address the growing demand for GPU-based HPC technology in the science and manufacturing industries.

"We look forward to working with Avnet to deliver Tesla-based HPC solutions to a broad range of new customers across EMEA."