Desktop Supercomputers

[R.D. Silverman]

See the following:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NV...sktop_999.html

[xilman]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

See the following:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NV...sktop_999.html

Ah, so the much talked-about Tesla boxes are available. They're graphics cards without any graphical output. The bigger ones have a PCI-Express cable to connect to the workstation.

Don't believe all the hype. They are only superb for certain problems, primarily those which are naturally suited to 32-bit SIMD machines. That said, if you have such a problem they are very attractive.

I've been looking into these things for the last couple of months.


Paul

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by xilman

Ah, so the much talked-about Tesla boxes are available. They're graphics cards without any graphical output. The bigger ones have a PCI-Express cable to connect to the workstation.

Don't believe all the hype. They are only superb for certain problems, primarily those which are naturally suited to 32-bit SIMD machines. That said, if you have such a problem they are very attractive.

I've been looking into these things for the last couple of months.


Paul

One would also need to port all of our number-theoretic integer
arithmetic to floating point.

How much memory do they have?

Some parts of NFS are very well suited to SIMD.

[fivemack]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

One would also need to port all of our number-theoretic integer
arithmetic to floating point.

Not necessarily: they have 32-bit integer and 53-bit FP arithmetic. Still no useful byte-wide memory access, so sieving is not obviously a good application.

How much memory do they have?

4GB per C1060 card; four cards interlinked by PCIe can be attached to a single motherboard; there's a box called an S1070 with four cards in it of which you can attach two by PCIe to a motherboard, but that's a bit more expensive.