Ken Lloyd wrote:
> With a little reorganization and forethought, you can even have your own
> mini-supercomputer using banks of GPU cards to crunch vectors and matrices.
> See Nvidia's CUDA development system, and their Tesla computer system.
>
This seems like one area where Clearspeed would really shine. Given
artificial neurons with a fixed number of inputs and outputs.
http://www.clearspeed.com/docs/resources/ClearSpeed_e710_Marketing_Brochure_5-08.pdfAt 3.84 GFLOPS/watt it's nearly ten times more efficient than Roadrunner
@ 473 MFLOPS/Watt.
And Roadrunner being one of the most energy efficient supercomputers..
http://www.green500.org/lists/2008/06/ranks1-100.phpMarcus
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