Bolt Graphics Launches Zeus GPU for High-Performance Workloads

Bolt Graphics announces Zeus, a completely new GPU design for high performance workloads including rendering, high-performance computing, and gaming. Zeus addresses performance, efficiency and functionality limitations with legacy GPUs, the company claims.

Bolt brings expandable memory to GPUs, which allows users to increase their memory up to 384 GB in a PCIe card, and up to 2.25 TB per Zeus in a 2U server. A rack of Zeus 2U servers can be configured with up to 180 TB of memory.

“Zeus increases performance while simultaneously reducing power consumption,” says Darwesh Singh, founder and CEO of Bolt Graphics. “I'm proud of the Bolt team's dedicated effort to create a solution that addresses key customer pain points, enabling them to be more productive and bring their ideas to life.”

The GPU also features native integration of high-speed 400 GbE and 800 GbE Ethernet interfaces directly into the GPU. Now users can directly connect Zeus GPUs to each other at massive scale.

Zeus will be available in multiple form factors including PCIe cards, servers and the cloud. Bolt plans on expanding Zeus into smartphones, tablets, laptops, consoles and cars over the coming years, providing a unified GPU architecture across various platforms.

Glowstick: Real-Time Path Tracing

Along with Zeus, Bolt Graphics is announcing Glowstick, a real-time path tracer for rendering customers. Path tracing simulates complex light interactions that happen in the real world, but are too computationally intensive for legacy GPUs to simulate in real time, according to Bolt Graphics. By enabling real-time path tracing, users can see their work immediately and collaborate with their customers or coworkers on the spot.

A single Zeus PCIe card enables path tracing in real time at 4K 120 fps for workloads like product design without upscaling or frame generation workarounds. An architect working with a client can demonstrate their photorealistic design and make changes with their clients immediately. 

Glowstick will be included with Zeus at no additional cost and supports industry standard OpenUSD, MaterialX, OSL, and Deadline for integration across platforms and render scheduling. Glowstick will also have its own texture library starting with 5,000 textures.

Apollo: Electromagnetic Wave Simulation

Electromagnetic wave simulations are key to designing modern high-technology products, according to Bolt Graphics. Zeus resets performance and scale expectations around accurate physics simulations with performance in electromagnetic wave simulation, key for designing consumer electronics, optical lenses and waveguides, CT and X-Ray scanners, and more. Zeus maintains IEEE-754 FP64 accuracy.
Users can take advantage of Zeus's 2.25 TB of memory capacity to run larger simulations.

About Bolt Graphics

Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup building fast graphics processors. 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.