[Beowulf] gpgpu

Li, Bo libo at buaa.edu.cn
Mon Sep 1 19:19:52 PDT 2008


Gaming card is not supposed to have the same stability at the default frequency, but with the 10 times price difference, it is still a very good choice. 
Two card system cost us only $1,000 and provides about 1.6TFlops SP capability.
Regards,
Li, Bo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Lawrence" <matt at technoronin.com>
To: "who's afraid of" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] gpgpu


> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Li, Bo wrote:
> 
>> It seemed that you had got a very good example for GPGPU. As I said 
>> before, it's not the time for GPGPU to do the DP calculation at the 
>> moment. If you can bear SP computation, you will find more about it. 
>> NVidia just sent me some special offer about their Tesla platforms, 
>> which said that the workstation equipped with two GTX280 level 
>> professional cards costs about $5000, not bad. But my intention is still 
>> to lower the core frequency of a gaming card, and use it for 
>> computation.
> 
> Are those the chips that overheat and pull loose from the carrier?
> 
> -- Matt
> It's not what I know that counts.
> It's what I can remember in time to use.
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