Win a GK110 (Telsa 3000 Series)

[Tempered81]

Here is an Nvidia Sweepstakes to win a Nvidia Kepler GK110 based Tesla 3000 series GPU, valued at over $3000. Winner will be chosen in 1 week on May 15th!

http://blogs.nvidia.com/tesla-kepler-gpu-contest-rules/

6. Winner Announcement; Claiming and Awarding of Prize
The winner of this Contest will be announced on NVIDIA.com on or about May 14, 2012 before or at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. Within 7 days following such announcement, the winner will be notified by NVIDIA using the contact information provided with the abstract submission. To claim the prize, the winner must do the following within 30 days from the date of NVIDIA’s notification:
(a) confirm receipt of the notice by email (which confirmation must be sent from the same email address to which the notice was sent); and
(b) complete, sign and return a winner release form (as provided by NVIDIA along with its email notice) and such other requisite documentation (if any) listed in NVIDIA’s email notice (hereinafter collectively the “Required Winner Documents&#8221, to NVIDIA Corporation, Attn.: “What Would you Do with a Petaflop Supercomputer?” Contest, 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050, U.S.A.
Within 14 days following its receipt of the Required Winner Documents from the winner, NVIDIA will ship the prize via FedEx or similar courier service, at NVIDIA’s expense, to the winner’s mailing address specified in his/her winning entry. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if NVIDIA determines that the Required Winner Documents as returned by the winner are incomplete, erroneous, or otherwise not in order, NVIDIA may require the winner to provide complete or replacement documentation prior to shipment of prize.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL ENTRANTS: If a winner cannot be contacted or fails to claim the prize or to return the Required Winner Documents within the specified time period, or if the prize is returned as undeliverable, or if a winner fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Official Rules, such winner will be considered to have forfeited the prize. In such case, the prize will be awarded to the individual who submitted the next best entry as previously determined by NVIDIA.
7. Taxes

 

[Zanovar]

Here is an Nvidia Sweepstakes to win a Nvidia Kepler GK110 based Tesla 3000 series GPU, valued at over $3000. Winner will be chosen in 1 week on May 15th!

http://blogs.nvidia.com/tesla-kepler-gpu-contest-rules/

im gonna go for it tempered,i just know im not gonna win it

 

[blastingcap]

This gives more credence to VR Zone's recent article on what launches May 10:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/how-the...-prime-example-of-nvidia-reshaped-/15786.html

 

[Zanovar]

This gives more credence to VR Zone's recent article on what launches May 10:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/how-the...-prime-example-of-nvidia-reshaped-/15786.html

If i win that bcap,i promise ill give you half hahah

 

[Yuriman]

5. Entry Period
The entry period for this Contest begins at 3:30 p.m. PST (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) on April 24, 2012 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) on May 4th, 2012 (hereinafter the “Entry Period”). “Pacific Daylight Saving Time” refers to that observed in the United States of America. It is entirely each entrant’s responsibility to observe time zone differences.

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[Zanovar]

hmm,im confused,need more coffee

 

[RussianSensation]

Great find Blasting!

"Jen-Hsun Huang and his team decided otherwise. The total salary AFTER tax and benefits was cut to $1, and no employee would get fired."

Wow, talk about a CEO who cares about his workforce. And people still hate JHH and NV.

"When the company received first GK100, GK104 and GK107 dies, the performance of GK104 shocked the company executives. Our sources were telling us that there was a genuine surprise from CEO to PR/Marketing/Sales teams, since GeForce GTX 660 part was outperforming GTX 580 by a significant margin. The decision was made to rebrand the part into GTX 660 and 670 Ti, with GK100 taking the role of head honcho. Then, AMD came out with Radeon HD 7970, the very first part based on its Southern Islands architecture. The performance unveiled was the reason why the author of these lines got multiple calls from NVIDIA insiders asking "Does AMD have hidden cores in the die? What did they disable?" However, with Southern Islands being AMD's first compute intensive part (just like G80/Tesla and GF100/Fermi were compute milestones for NVIDIA), the company had to sacrifice some efficiency/performance for their first true GPU compute architecture."

hehhe so it is true then. We got GK104 @ $400-500 because HD7900 series was underwhelming from NV's point of view. That explains why they were thrilled when they saw the benchmarks of 7970. Their mid-range GK104 chip was trading blows with AMD's high-end.

"the company was working on three dies at the same time"

Seems NV did learn from the Fermi design mistake by having 3 dedicated teams on 3 separate SKUs! Great management strategy after Fermi fiasco. Too bad GK110 isn't ready for prime time in the consumer market.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

So no desktop GK110?

 

[Tempered81]

Somebody will have one at the end of May, hopefully that someone knows how to bench.

Tesla 110 for now, Geforce maybe later this Fall as GTX 700 card.

 

[SolMiester]

So no desktop GK110?

It doesn't say that, only that Telsa will be the first GK110

 

[SickBeast]

The entry period for this Contest begins at 3:30 p.m. PST (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) on April 24, 2012 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST (Pacific Daylight Saving Time) on May 4th, 2012 (hereinafter the “Entry Period&#8221. “Pacific Daylight Saving Time” refers to that observed in the United States of America. It is entirely each entrant’s responsibility to observe time zone differences.

 

[3DVagabond]

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER THIS CONTEST. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED BY LAW. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EXCLUDING PUERTO RICO AND ITS OTHER TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS) AND CANADA (EXCLUDING QUEBEC).

I wonder what disqualifies Quebec? (Must resist Québécois jokes. )

 

[Zanovar]

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER THIS CONTEST. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED BY LAW. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EXCLUDING PUERTO RICO AND ITS OTHER TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS) AND CANADA (EXCLUDING QUEBEC).

I wonder what disqualifies Quebec? (Must resist Québécois jokes. )

ha,there is a reason for that 3d,what is it?

 

[imaheadcase]

You forgot the part..
This Contest requires that participants submit a 100-200 word abstract detailing how they would use a GPU-equipped, petaflop-class supercomputer in their university department. The abstract should included detailed information of the proposed research project, including: the scientific field, research methodology, how GPUs would be used (e.g., acceleration of application code, scientific algorithms, etc.), and what the researcher is hoping to study and/or discover.

So that leaves majority of us out

 

[Zanovar]

You forgot the part..
This Contest requires that participants submit a 100-200 word abstract detailing how they would use a GPU-equipped, petaflop-class supercomputer in their university department. The abstract should included detailed information of the proposed research project, including: the scientific field, research methodology, how GPUs would be used (e.g., acceleration of application code, scientific algorithms, etc.), and what the researcher is hoping to study and/or discover.

So that leaves majority of us out

haha

 

[boxleitnerb]

GK110 tapeout was only in March afaik, how can they provide a fully functioning (?) card so soon?

 

[biostud]

I wonder what disqualifies Quebec? (Must resist Québécois jokes. )

AMD/ATi headquarters?

 

[3DVagabond]

AMD/ATi headquarters?

Makes sense.

 

[Raghu]

@OP, Where does it say GK110 based Tesla?

 

[kidsafe]

AMD/ATi headquarters?

ATI was based in Markham, Ontario.

 

[Keysplayr]

@OP, Where does it say GK110 based Tesla?

"The prizes of this Contest are as follows:

Authors of the three (3) winning abstracts will each receive one (1) NVIDIA Tesla GPU based on the new Kepler architecture, which have an estimated retail value of US$3,000 each."

It doesn't actually say GK110 but it does say Kepler based Tesla. So, it would make sense for it to be GK100 or GK110. IMHO.

 

[kevinsbane]

Quebec has weird legal requirements. Probably has to do with their language laws which would require that their contests be done in English and French, with all publically available signs in Quebec having to have either full size French alongside the English, or no English at all.

So for this contest to be available in Quebec, all the text has to be available in French, and also be prominently displayed alongside the English; or has a separate French site dedicated to the French side of the contest.

 

[Despoiler]

Great find Blasting!

"Jen-Hsun Huang and his team decided otherwise. The total salary AFTER tax and benefits was cut to $1, and no employee would get fired."

Wow, talk about a CEO who cares about his workforce. And people still hate JHH and NV.

Ceo's that do that are not doing it because they care. It's symbolic and only to those that don't understand the tax system. Ceo's take $1 pay because their actual pay is company stock. You sell the stock and your tax rate is 15%. 15% is lower than their tax bracket would be otherwise.

 

[blckgrffn]

Ceo's that do that are not doing it because they care. It's symbolic and only to those that don't understand the tax system. Ceo's take $1 pay because their actual pay is company stock. You sell the stock and your tax rate is 15%. 15% is lower than their tax bracket would be otherwise.

Which is then a massive incentive for those executives to makes moves that promote/improve the stock price. Obviously, the stock price should be the only things those execs care about...

And so it goes...

(that's not really a dig on nvidia, just the horrible system of CEO pay and BoDs made up of their upper echelon buddies)

 

[RussianSensation]

Ceo's that do that are not doing it because they care. It's symbolic and only to those that don't understand the tax system. Ceo's take $1 pay because their actual pay is company stock. You sell the stock and your tax rate is 15%. 15% is lower than their tax bracket would be otherwise.

Oh I get that it's how it normally works. But based on the story, it states otherwise.

"While "the $1 CEO club" usually means executives receive millions of dollars in stocks and other types of compensation, Jen-Hsun Huang and his team decided otherwise. The total salary AFTER tax and benefits was cut to $1, and no employee would get fired."

I know JHH got a bunch of stock options for this year and 2011. Not sure how it was in 2009 though when this move was made.