Nvidia Tesla GPUs To Accelerate VASP Material Simulation Application

[kcarbotte]

By the end of this year, the VASP application, which simulates materials at the atomic level, will be updated with Tesla GPU support, allowing calculations to be performed significantly faster than ever before.

Nvidia Tesla GPUs To Accelerate VASP Material Simulation Application : Read more

 

[cats_Paw]

Anyone also reads this and thinks "I think this is amazing but Im not sure since Im just a gamer and what Id really like to ask is if I can add that to my gaming rig to get a boost in FPS" ?

 

[Vivacious Donut]

Anyone also reads this and thinks "I think this is amazing but Im not sure since Im just a gamer and what Id really like to ask is if I can add that to my gaming rig to get a boost in FPS" ?

I know, every time I see this I think 'where do I buy these for my rig?'

 

[extremepenguin]

Any number of commercial suppliers sell the K80's, I managed to get a pretty good deal on mine at just a little north of 9K a pop. Much better than the advertised 12K they average for in Canada.

 

[Mac266]

Personally, I just like the Shroud design.

 

[BrandonYoung]

"2.5 to 4" times faster? I would have expected more performance gains from using a GPGPU device vs a CPU.
Edit: apparently the CPU they were comparing this to is a 12 core, E5-2697v2, so that is a bit better I guess. I'm still looking forward to a larger performance gain through optimizations to the (CUDA?) kernel.

 

[uglyduckling81]

Any number of commercial suppliers sell the K80's, I managed to get a pretty good deal on mine at just a little north of 9K a pop. Much better than the advertised 12K they average for in Canada.

Ouch! Guess they saw you coming.
You can get one for about $4.2k from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Accelerator-passive-cooling-900-22080-0000-000/dp/B00Q7O7PQA

 

[uglyduckling81]

Any number of commercial suppliers sell the K80's, I managed to get a pretty good deal on mine at just a little north of 9K a pop. Much better than the advertised 12K they average for in Canada.

Ouch! Guess they saw you coming.
You can get one for about $4.2k from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Accelerator-passive-cooling-900-22080-0000-000/dp/B00Q7O7PQA