Tesla - some awsome new card soon to come ...

[petrusbroder]

Some info abouit Tesla - the super-computer for the dest top.

Here are the news from Nvidia themselves ...

Now lets inspire some devs to start writing apps for this baby ...

If apps are available - I'll get one - a much better upgrade than two or three new crunchers!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Yes, interesting, indeed. Looks more promising than the usage of regular ATI cards for F@H!

 

[TallBill]

Badass.

 

[Alyx]

I imagine prices will be astronomical. Its a niche product so they'll need a high margin to recoup design costs. Very cool idea that will likely help a lot of research projects out though.

 

[petrusbroder]

Well, the prices are high ... the card with one processor is approx. 1700 US$ (approx 500 gigaflops, if I understand the numbers correctly), the server approx. 8 000 US$ (at least 2 000 gigaflops, more if more processors are incorporated).
OTOH: a good crunching computer is approximatly 700 US$ and produces much less (260 Megaflops - I may be wrong - but I am considering the CPU, not the GPU). The design costs are not that high: the system is based on existing and well tested GPUs, it is the software which has been changed.
The cool part is the fact that Win XP and different flavors of Linux are supported ... that means that BOINC could be adapted for this hardware and that apps could be developed - and it seems to me, that the software tools (libraries and such) are already done.

Looking at folding@home: the WUs crunched by the ATI-graphics processors are done very fast - compared to those crunched by CPUs - I have the impression that this is similar thinking, and that NVIDIA wants to be competitive in this area too. Competition is good for us.

 

[CupCak3]

well off the top of my head i think these cards are single precision while fah needs double

 

[petrusbroder]

Yes, you are right, it is single precision. OTOH: other projects are happy with single precision ... AFAIK such as QMC, seti.

 

[GLeeM]

Originally posted by: CupCak3
well off the top of my head i think these cards are single precision while fah needs double

I'm a little confused here and you are probably right but do all the WU cores use double precision?

I know there is a core called Gromacs and there is a core called Double Gromacs. Does the Double part mean double precision? I haven't seen any of those DGros in a long time.

 

[CupCak3]

Originally posted by: GLeeM
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: CupCak3
well off the top of my head i think these cards are single precision while fah needs double </end quote></div>

I'm a little confused here and you are probably right but do all the WU cores use double precision?

I know there is a core called Gromacs and there is a core called Double Gromacs. Does the Double part mean double precision? I haven't seen any of those DGros in a long time.

Sorry for the late reply, I've been quite busy lately

I *thought* I read all WUs were double precious but that very well could have changed since then or it may indeed not apply to all WUs... I have been known to be wrong from time to

On a good note though, I'm hoping to get my C2D machine back up after 2 months of being in peices