Florent Calvayrac-Castaing wrote: [...] > > Interesting. > > I understand why, when I submitted a joint exploratory project > about GPU computing two years ago with a Japanese > colleague we were ranked first in Japan and last in France ; the > idea seems more popular in Japan if they can fork millions > on an architecture it is not very quick to program for (at least > maybe not as fast as Moore's law is increasing power). > They may be willing to spend millions because they already have programs able to use the GPUs.
If I'm not mistaken, the "Tsubame" cluster was initially using Clearspeed accelerators (in Sun X4600 "fat" nodes). Therefore, they probably have appropriate programs that need little adaptation (or less than many) to work on the GPUs. Loïc. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
