Nvidia Powering World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

[exfileme]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has chosen Nvidia's Tesla GPU to power a new supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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[plznote]

Excellent.

 

[gmcizzle]

But can it run BF3?

 

[jezus53]

Funny how a guy from nVidia is talking about melting chips.

 

[Inferno1217]

[citation][nom]gmcizzle[/nom]But can it run BF3?[/citation]

BF3 is much better coded than the mess known as Crysis. The highest end cards at the time could not run it at full settings when it was released. BF3 does NOT suffer from this. Crysis was poorly coded.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]gmcizzle[/nom]But can it run BF3?[/citation]
Ya, sorry dude, that question just doesn't hold the same weight as it did with Crysis. BF3 maxed at 1920x1200 actually performs quite well on high end single GPU configurations.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

It's amazing how quickly the floating point performance of modern supercomputers have increased. It seems like just yesterday the first PFLOP system launched, and next year we could potentially have a 20 PFLOP system. This is no doubt related to the integration of GPU coprocessors in recent supercomputing systems.

 

[gerchokas]

With billions (or trillions?) of transistors, how close can it be to emulating a human brain?? I want true AI!!!

 

[Guest]

Maybe Crysis just did more stuff?

 

[Stryter]

Hey, a shout out for Tennessee, hell yea!

 

[jecho]

just tell the government it would be cheaper to DIY

 

[Guest]

600~ petaflops is close to human brain!! heard it somewhere on TV!!.....or was it only 40!!!hmmmm.......well.....who knows!!

 

[gmcizzle]

18000-SLi. Dear Santa...

 

[ikyung]

In 25 years we will have that much power in the palm of our hands.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

When I first saw the headline I wondered what in the world is Nvidia doing powering a supercomputer. Had to read the article twice to sort it out. LOL!

 

[del35]

Imagine the noise from the MSM if Apple could make similar claims. We would be hearing nonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn stopppppppppppppppppp of Steve Jobs' genius. We know the game.

 

[Shin-san]

AMD Opterons seem to be paired with this kind of GPU quite often. Also, 16 core AMD implies that they will be using Bulldozer.

 

[christop]

Nice rig...

 

[Ciuy]

its good news....more power for the masses

 

[tomfreak]

[citation][nom]Inferno1217[/nom]BF3 is much better coded than the mess known as Crysis. The highest end cards at the time could not run it at full settings when it was released. BF3 does NOT suffer from this. Crysis was poorly coded.[/citation]agree, but the realism art and vegetation on Crysis with Mod are still the best looking till date. Screw it, like I care about the poorly code game, as long as it look good and my hardware can run @ max setting I am GAME.

 

[Th_Redman]

When can I buy one of these when it's completed? Just kidding. It's incomprehensible the power of something like this.

 

[kcorp2003]

so much for supporting american products. AMD all the way 😉

 

[austinwillis81]

so what do they use to power that thing?

 

[house70]

According to Carmack, still not enough to play Rage... oh, wait, it was the driver's fault.

 

[garyshome]

Who is paying for this? Us? How much does it cost?