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Oh wait...]]>Nov 18th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/]]>Nov 18th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
For example, natural bridges have existed (tree falling across a river).. but are we going to say that the Brooklyn Bridge was discovered and not invented?]]>Nov 18th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Think of the energy savings alone.]]>Nov 18th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Sure and I'd consider it but I only want to go through that process once and I'd like to see who wins out CUDA or OpenCL before I take that plunge. (Plus not to sound like a dick but I can run my stuff on a Blue Gene right now so I'm in no particular rush)]]>Nov 18th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
You have the right idea, but in practice - even if you have the time to recode, which is a big if considering customer (sponsors for the universities) demands - recoding the types of things that run on current clusters is difficult, because they have been built up over years by numerous people who have scattered all over the place from where the project started. At work we have a Tesla "Deskside Supercomputer" breakout box that cost something like $5k that the IT guys claim is as powerful as one of our $100k+ AMD64-based 80+ core clusters. We write a lot of code in-house as well as modify third-party codes, so we thought we could tackle it pretty easily, but after setting the thing up it has done nothing but collect dust for 6 months. Until somebody comes up with compilers that that can take existing code and make good enough guesses at where to direct the CUDA calls that actually gain some performance, then it isn't economical to code for them. There are some stop-gaps out there - I'm personally looking at some situations for some of my code where a company has written an environment plugin that have unique variable type definitions for execution in parallel on the GPUs where a find & replace job might get me some significant gains - but I'm still too busy with things that work on the cluster that is already there to sit down and do it. Where these have the most utility is for new projects, which, for now anyway, makes it a niche market.]]>Nov 19th 2008 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 19th 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 19th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 19th 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Nothing goes over 9000.]]>May 6th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/What about a Beowulf cluster of these?]]>Nov 18th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Also very hard to code for.]]>Nov 18th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 19th 2008 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Is this just a really powerful computer, capable of running intensive games and applications, or does everything need to be specially written for it?]]>Nov 18th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Oh well, bit far fetched lol]]>Nov 18th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/
Uh I dunno, maybe decrypt harder encryptions, manage DDoS attacks better, run world-domination simulations faster, and overall have a stronger presence on the internet.]]>Nov 18th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/Nov 18th 2008 5:34PM