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Nvidia "engine room" tour

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Originally posted by: billyjak
No wonder they cost so much.
What goes on behind the seen is amazing.
It's the price we have to pay for new technology I guess.
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No kidding.

I thought it was funny when he said the developers are always finding new projects that require even more powerful datacenters and storage. I wonder if they really need more power or if they are just saying that to see how big they can get their farms🙂

Joe Developer: "Umm.. yeah we need 14,000 new cpu's to umm... make a new chip that is even better... ummm ... yeah that's it... oh and maybe another 90 Terabytes of storage."
They're just probably encoding massive divX files for their prOn collection.😀
 
Originally posted by: zippy
Originally posted by: Dug
Originally posted by: billyjak
They're just probably encoding massive divX files for their prOn collection.😀
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Shhh...don't let everyone know that nVidia is just a front for an internation p0rn cartel! 😀
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Hey, it makes more money than thier video card division 🙂
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Originally posted by: Dulanic
Originally posted by: CrazySaint
Originally posted by: Alchemist99
My small brain cannot even to begin to fathom what they need all that computing power for.
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For doing software simulations of the chips they're designing. They design a chip, then test it using software simulation of the chip's architecture.
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Actually if I remember right, the actual physical chip design is done with software also. I mean they design the stuff, but do you think a human could route the millions of connections inside a GPU or CPU. I believe they design what the GPU does and everything, but software actually designs the physical chip and where to place each transistor and connection. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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That's correct, they use what's called an HDL (Hardware Description Language) which is similar to a programming language, except that you use it to describe how a chip is supposed to function instead of a program. Once they're done "coding" the chip, instead of compiling it, the software does the actual chip designs though I believe the engineers may "touch it up" a bit manually (could be wrong on this). Then they do the full software simulation of the chip to test for bugs. Anand covered the entire GPU process in his article titled "Inside ATI & NVidia".
 
You guys know if Quantum computing every comes into play a single quantum computer could replace all of that CPU power (storage however is still an issue).
 
Originally posted by: Buzzman151
aight, I must be blind. Where is this "little n"? I think I'm going crazy :/
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I had that problem too. Check the lower right part of the screen.

 
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Originally posted by: Buzzman151
aight, I must be blind. Where is this "little n"? I think I'm going crazy :/
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I had that problem too. Check the lower right part of the screen.
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wow, I'm dumb... thnx 🙂
 
I wish I had half of that computing power. Imagine how much money must have been spent to put all of those racks in that room. I wouldn't mind a janitorial job there.
 
Originally posted by: KraziKid
I wish I had half of that computing power. Imagine how much money must have been spent to put all of those racks in that room. I wouldn't mind a janitorial job there.
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Just the cost of powering all those machines is probably quite a bit more than most of us make. I'd like a job as an NVidia engineer, just so I could try to get my DF client on the machines 😀
 
Just the cost of powering all those machines is probably quite a bit more than most of us make
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One day of powering those is probably more than most of make in one year.

I wonder what it costs to power them for one day, including ac, backup power, etc.
Doesn't matter, its all for the good of mankind. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: NOX
You could crush a country like IRAQ with that much computing power!

"200GB of RAM" per sunfire!!!
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A speaker from the local SGI facility came by for a seminar class. He talked about their new Origin machines with 512 cpus (1024 cpu custom machine for NASA) and TB's of RAM. We were pretty much blown away by the fact (of course, they're mainframes so....BigMcLargeHuge). And yeah, he was saying that the people who use them are chip designers and other companies with huge processing needs like meteorology, NASA, Department of Defense, etc.

Pretty sweet.
 
heh! .... llllllllllinux! 🙂

OMFG!!!
This sh!t is insane, it's scary. It's more advanced than that place that linda hamilton and arnold blew up in T2 .. when they were destroying Miles' research lab or whatever.
 
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