When running complex algorithms where results can make a huge impact in the field of drug research, seismic analysis, material science, quantum chemistry, etc., data accuracy and reliability become just as important as accelerating results.
NVIDIA Tesla products are designed for high performance computing and data reliability. The objective is to accelerate discoveries and insights for end customers, while NVIDIA focuses on adding features that make data integrity ever more robust on Tesla. The first step in that direction was adding error correction code (ECC), starting with Fermi generation of Tesla products. Building on that, Tesla K20, K20X and K40 became the first Tesla products to support Dynamic Page Retirement with Release 319 and later NVIDIA Professional drivers.