[Beowulf] Nvidia, cuda, tesla and... where's my double floating point?

[Ricardo Reis]

On Sun, 4 May 2008, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:

> "Next generation Tesla", but I don't know when. Or use AMD  FireStream 9170 
> instead :-)

I've read somewhere that double precision performance from AMD wasn't very 
good and their programming model goes more towards assembly... Besides, 
AMD/ATI still have to convince on their linux drivers.

Unless... do you have any experience with that hardware you could share?

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  Ricardo Reis

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