On Apr 25, 2:15 am, ahmet alper parker <aapar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there anyone who has knowledge about it and its possible future
> benefits to scientific computing (especially for sage + maxima etc.)
> of the GPU computing with the new Nvidia Tesla platform?
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html
>
> Quote:
> "Powered by the Tesla C1060 Computing Processor, the NVIDIA Tesla
> Personal Supercomputer delivers cluster level computing performance on
> your desk—250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations.">
We have played around with GPUs to do exact and numerical linear
algebra in Sage and unfortunately have not merged any of that code
yet.
The factor 250 speedup is plain bullshit marketing numbers and only
doable in a very, very few special cases (well, and some of the quad
CPU card systems Nvidia sells retail for more than $10k, so not
exactly comparing apples and apples here). Something more realistic
is maybe a factor 2 to 10 for some operations - not too shabby, but
given the cost and the technical requirements anything but trivial to
do.
> Regards
>
> AAP
Cheers,
Michael
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