<div dir="ltr"><div>I did not want to hijack the thread on Nvidia cards.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug Eadline as usual makes a very relevant point:</div><div>"<span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">BTW, I find it interesting one of the most popular codes run</span><br style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-bottom:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">
on Nvidia GPUs is Amber (MD). It has been optimized to use</span><br style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-bottom:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">
SP when it can and many Amber users turn off ECC because it</span><br style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-bottom:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">
slows down the GPU which translates to runs really well on</span><br style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-bottom:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">
Nvidia video cards."</span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">I would like to start off a discussion on choosing the appropriate precision for calculations.</span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">I believe that there is a generally agreed limit for an exascale machine of 30MW of power consumption (I could be wrong). So people are looking at the energy consumption per computational operation.</span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">I believe computational scientists will have to start paying a lot more attention to the choice of data types, rather than declaring double precision. </span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Just my two pennies worth.</span></div></div>