( OT) Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs

[Guest David]

- Something to think about:

 

Researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have created a new

supercomputer with standard gaming hardware. The system uses four

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards, costs less than €4,000 to

build, and delivers roughly the same performance as a supercomputer

cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs.

 

 

The guys explain that 8 GPU's get the same performance as 300 Intel

Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors

 

Cost is 4,000 Euros.

 

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/05/31/1633214

[Guest Adam Albright]

Re: ( OT) Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs

 

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:05:43 -0700 (PDT), David

<mcdonald606a@yahoo.com> wrote:

>- Something to think about:

>

>Researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have created a new

>supercomputer with standard gaming hardware. The system uses four

>NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards, costs less than €4,000 to

>build, and delivers roughly the same performance as a supercomputer

>cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs.

>

>

>The guys explain that 8 GPU's get the same performance as 300 Intel

>Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors

>

>Cost is 4,000 Euros.

>

>http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/05/31/1633214

 

The article is misleading in that is makes reference to how fast

graphics are drawn/calculated and not raw computing power which

so-called super computers are intended for, ie crunching numbers, not

just moving/calculating the position of pixels on screen.