Tegra, CUDA Powering CPU/GPU Hybrid Supercomputer

[exfileme]

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center plans to build a system using Nvidia's Tegra SoC and CUDA GPU to reduce the enormous power consumption supercomputers typically need.

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[alyoshka]

"This rate of power consumption is not sustainable." .... Hmm Interesting, some had the guts to say that....

 

[aldaia]

I personally know this group and even had one of the boards in my hands a few weeks ago, when everything was still secret. The concept is technically sound. Once they install the GPU's they expect to reach 7.5 GFLOPS / W this is almost 10 times more efficient than the K-supercomputer which achieves 800 MFlops /W. The top 1 in the green 500 list (pending the November update) is an IBM prototype achieving 2 Gflops/W

Despite denying it publicly, Intel actually fears the ARM revolution. Maybe this is the reason why, the same day that the ARM supercomputer prototype is disclosed in Seattle, in Barcelona we have this other news:

"BARCELONA, November 16, 2011 –Today, Intel Corporation and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have signed a multi-year agreement to create the Intel and BSC Exascale Laboratory in Barcelona. The new lab will be located at the premises of BSC and focus on software and extraordinary levels of parallelism which will be needed to utilize future Intel-architecture based supercomputers. Exascale supercomputers will deliver up to 1,000 times the performance of today’s fastest systems using as many as 100 million processor cores to do so."

 

[mcd023]

what is the performance per clock comparison btwn ARM and x86?

 

[saturnus]

[citation][nom]aldaia[/nom]"BARCELONA, November 16, 2011 –... using as many as 100 million processor cores to do so."[/citation]

Oh my. If those are i7 based cores then we're talking 4-5 Gigawatt of power consumption.

I never knew that supercomputers could go into thermonuclear meltdown.

 

[lockhrt999]

Great now sometime in future I can say, that supercomputer is running on my mobile's processor.

 

[saturnus]

[citation][nom]mcd023[/nom]what is the performance per clock comparison btwn ARM and x86?[/citation]

Next generation ARMv8 will be between 60-80% of i7 performance per core per clock. At about 5% (that's right 1/20th) the power consumption.

 

[nhat11]

[citation][nom]saturnus[/nom]Next generation ARMv8 will be between 60-80% of i7 performance per core per clock. At about 5% (that's right 1/20th) the power consumption.[/citation]

Eh you might want to reference that to something otherwise it just seems like smoke

 

[saturnus]

[citation][nom]nhat11[/nom]Eh you might want to reference that to something otherwise it just seems like smoke[/citation]

Sure. This is first generation ARMv8, for next generation ARMv8 head over to ARM's website to see projections.

 

[tmk221]

[citation][nom]saturnus[/nom]Next generation ARMv8 will be between 60-80% of i7 performance per core per clock. At about 5% (that's right 1/20th) the power consumption.[/citation]

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in your dreams

 

[doron]

[citation][nom]saturnus[/nom]Sure. This is first generation ARMv8, for next generation ARMv8 head over to ARM's website to see projections.[/citation]

You might wanna read that again... It's not a per-core comparison.

 

[saturnus]

You may read it again yourself and improve your math skills.

First generation ARMv8 coming next year will have 30-40% of i7 performance per core per clock as stated with maximum 2W power consumption per core at 2.5GHz.

Next generation ARMv8 coming 2013/2014 will double that performance in the same power envelope according to the ARM roadmap.

 

[mt2e]

how cute 2 580's with different software.......

 

[Guest]

Intel is not inventing in processor designs. In the past 10 years, all they have been doing is just to shrink their old X86 again and again.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]saturnus[/nom]You may read it again yourself and improve your math skills.First generation ARMv8 coming next year will have 30-40% of i7 performance per core per clock as stated with maximum 2W power consumption per core at 2.5GHz.Next generation ARMv8 coming 2013/2014 will double that performance in the same power envelope according to the ARM roadmap.[/citation]
... facepalm.

 

[nebun]

no one can resist the power of CUDA