[Beowulf] What class of PDEs/numerical schemes suitable for GPU clusters

Alan Louis Scheinine alscheinine at tuffmail.us
Thu Nov 20 08:58:13 PST 2008


Mark Hahn wrote:
> OTOH, GP-GPU has obviously drained much of the interest away from eg
> FPGA computation.  I don't know whether there is still enough interest
> in vector computers to drain anything... 
Joe Landman replied:
> Hmmm.... There is a (micro)vector machine in your CPU anyway.

What is missing in PCs is the very high main memory bandwidth
of vector machines for datasets larger than cache.  What do we
see in the near future with regard to increased memory bandwidth?

Best regards,
Alan Scheinine



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