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Tag Archives: Supercomputers
Tick, tock, tick, tock…
I recently read about IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer that will be operational in 2011. It will perform 20 Peta FLOPS and have 1.6 Peta bytes of RAM. To put that in perspective: if it were to attempt to simulation a human … Continue reading
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2.4 Tera FLOPS per card
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 … Continue reading
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Neural networks with Nvidia CUDA
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Power, Hardware, Neural Networks, Neuroscience, nVidia, Singularity, Supercomputers
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