[Beowulf] What happened to AMD GPU?

[Massimiliano Fatica]

Looking at the list:
FirePro s9150 has a score of 2.89/2.99 while the K40c has a score of
2.98/3.15.
Where is the 30-40% advantage?

M

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Michael Di Domenico <mdidomenico4 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:07 PM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
> wrote:
> > Frankly, it's visible we still aren't the best performance on some
> > codes.. Those issues basically fall into two camps and we're working
> > on it.
> > -----------
> > Having said this..
> > Would anyone build an AMD GPU cluster if
> > 1) The GPU was 30-40% faster than a K40
> > 2) It cost less
> > 3) OpenACC/OpenMP4/CUDA programming models were high performance and
> supported
> > 4) More oncard ram
> > -----------
>
> if the AMD's showed a 30-40% increase in performance over a k40, i'd
> buy them.  but our lock in with CUDA would make it difficult...
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