Tsubame isn't just about delivering flops to production codes. It is trying to spearhead coprocessing. The people there have been porting codes to ClearSpeed / GPUs for a while - and hence been publishing their experiences.
Daniel On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 12:01 +0000, Loic Tortay wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
