Re: REPOST: The meaning of "inner".

Posted by Kenneth Lloyd on Jul 20, 2008; 7:01pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/REPOST-The-meaning-of-inner-tp573374p574189.html

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.

- Ken

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> Yes, an impressive supercomputer. I think it is much more
> difficult to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations
> per second than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you
> can find them in Google's data centers.
>
> -J.
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> > For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion
> transistors for the
> > CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core
> Opterons) and
> > another 800 trillion for RAM (~100 TB).
> >
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