The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs. (Source: NVIDIA)
To: ShadowAce
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3 posted on
10/28/2010 9:14:11 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
draws 4 MW
A friend of mine at IBM told me the first time Los Alamos Labs turned on their Blue Gene super computer it browned out the whole town. Got a furious call from the power company.
5 posted on
10/28/2010 9:17:23 AM PDT by
DManA
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
By using GPUs instead of purely CPUs to fuel its calculations, the installation's power footprint is cut from an estimated 12 MW to 4.04 MW, saving enough electricity to power 5,000 homes a year. They're not "saving" anything. They're using less than normal. I wish tech writers would learn to write--and think.
6 posted on
10/28/2010 9:18:29 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Unlikely that nVidia would drop its consumer base. Theres
not enough buisness in this GPU computing sector to sustain it yet.
Are they even OpenCL compliant yet?
9 posted on
10/28/2010 9:40:39 AM PDT by
rahbert
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
but-but-but Ahrnold was on ABC news last night tellign us that caleefornea had built a faster computer. he would n’t lie to us, would he?
11 posted on
10/28/2010 10:56:56 AM PDT by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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