[Beowulf] cpu's versus gpu's - was Intel buys QLogic InfiniBand business

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 24/01/12 16:02, Steve Crusan wrote:

> Any center that buys BGP (or Q at this point) gear is
> going to pay for a scientific programmer to adapt their
> code to take advantage of the BG's strengths; parallelism. 

The advantage of the BG platform though is that it's just MPI and
threads, nothing that unusual at all - certainly no need to learn CUDA,
OpenCL, etc..

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    Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator
 VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
 Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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