vetta project

Remember when I was raving about nVidia’s new GTX 280 graphics card that crunches 1 Tera FLOPS?
Yeah, well, that was 3 weeks ago.
Today, Radeon’s new HD 4870 X2 graphics card has 1600 stream processors that crunch 2.4 Tera FLOPS.

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In 2006, a computer capable of 3 T FLOPS was enough to get onto the list of the top 500 super computers in the world.
Two years later…
This PC has 3 nVidia GTX 280 graphics cards, costs about $3,000 and is rated at 3 T FLOPS.

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If Roadrunner is a bit beyond your budget, simulating neural networks with GPUs might be an option:

The next generation of Nvidia GPUs will support enhancements such as double precision floating point in order to make them more suitable for general purpose highly parallel computation. There will also be cards with no graphics interface [...]

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According to this article the Roadrunner supercomputer has now reached a Petaflop.  Although it doesn’t sound like an official benchmark result yet, given that the International Supercomputing Conference starts in a week I guess the timing of the article is deliberate and an official position on the Top 500 supercomputers list will follow.
Next milestone…. 1016 [...]

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When I was looking for a new laptop last year I appreciated reading other people’s candid views on their recent purchases, thus I thought I’d write a post to contribute back.
I ended up getting a Lenovo T61p. Specs: Core2 Duo T7500 at 2.2Ghz, 4 GB of RAM, 1680×1050 screen, nVidia Quadro FX 570M graphics [...]

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