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Former Member
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_computing.html
NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer Get your own supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk. The NVIDIA® Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores. It obtains 4 TeraFlops of power at peak. Now that's scary :O. Gladly i'll be obtaining one of these within a month or two to help out the grid :D. Anyone else looking for a personal supercomputer? :P |
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RKN_frost
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WCG doesn't support CUDA - but you could use Tesla for Folding@home or GPUGRID.
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Former Member
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WCG doesn't support CUDA - but you could use Tesla for Folding@home or GPUGRID. I'm hoping that given the WCG Boinc client iteself does support CUDA of which we have a member crunching at WCG & GPUGrid, that it may be on the cards here one day. With Intel going back to the bad old hyperthreading days it would appear they are all out of ideas and the GPU is our best hope for a better crunching solution. Nvidea 9800 and up will do CUDA. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 21, 2008 10:12:53 AM] |
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Former Member
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Saying BOINC supports CUDA is a gross exaggeration. BOINC would like to support CUDA, but right now it's in such a mess that it is a miracle a few people have managed to get it working at all.
CUDA is so over-hyped right now, I think it will be a while yet before reality reasserts itself. 250x? From the reviews I've read, that's just wishful thinking. Yes, it's fast. But it's also expensive and a power sink. Once you cut away the hype, I suspect it will prove comparable to a blade server, but with the added overhead of having to rewrite all the software. Fun. |
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Former Member
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Gladly i'll be obtaining one of these within a month or two to help out the grid :D. Anyone else looking for a personal supercomputer? :P Folding@Home says it's not worth the cost for their folding: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&am...98&hilit=tesla#p69802 In theory yes, it runs. However the cost is far more then just buying 4 GPU's worth of graphics cards, and the WUs we do are normally run on one GPU. Most of the Tesla's power would be unused. |
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Former Member
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Important Note: This board is NOT a video card. It has no display outputs for connecting a monitor. It is a processor that offloads the computation from the computer’s CPU. Also note that for operation under Windows XP, this board requires a NVIDIA graphics display board or motherboard NVIDIA graphics. This is not a requirement for Linux operation.
----------------------------------------*cough* The Tesla is more of a way to buff up your computer than get a graphics card. It comes with memory (4gb), 240 processing cores each tesla, and the frequency of the cores is 1.296 Ghz. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 21, 2008 10:59:15 PM] |
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Former Member
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Here is a website for the PS3 and Nvidia
http://www.ps3grid.net/ "It is a novel distributed supercomputing infrastructure made of many PlayStation3 and NVIDIA graphics cards joined together to deliver high-performance all-atom biomolecular simulations. This project gives a new powerful computational tool to scientists and you are an important part of it." I don't see why users can support more then one project website at a time? |
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