[Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

Davide Rossetti davide.rossetti at roma1.infn.it
Mon Dec 17 08:15:54 PST 2012


It could be referred to DP (Dual Precision) GFlops/W, not single.

On 12/17/2012 02:50 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
> "todays 1 gflop/watt" ?
>
> The K20X delivers 1.4 Tflop nearly.
> If i google it's 235 watt TDP.
>
> 1.4 Tflop / 235 =  6 gflops/watt
>
> On Dec 17, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>> http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-awards-20m-nvidia-
>> stretch-achilles-heel-advanced-computing-power
>>
>>
>> DARPA awards $20M to Nvidia to stretch "Achilles Heel" of advanced
>> computing:
>> Power
>>
>> Processor-maker Nvidia will get chance to boost power chip output
>> from 1
>> GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS/watt
>>
>>

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