Well, If it's gonna use 2 pci-express slots, for sure it's eating massive power, just like the gpu's.
Furthermore the word 'double precision' is nowhere there, so we can safely assume single precision. Speaking of which - isn't nvidia and amd already delivering cards that deliver a lot? AMD's HD6990 is 500 euro and delivers a 5+ Tflop and supposedly so in openCL. Knowing intel is not delivering hardware dirt cheap - despite hammering the bulldozer, bulldozer so far is cheaper than any competative intel chip - though might change a few months from now when the 22nm parts are there. For crunching get gpu's - as for intel - i hope they release cheap sixcore cpu's and don't overprice 8 core Xeon... On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/ > 2016775145_wow_intel_unveils_1_teraflop_c.html > > Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores > > Posted by Brier Dudley > > I thought the prospect of quad-core tablet computers was exciting. > > Then I saw Intel's latest -- a 1 teraflop chip, with more than 50 > cores, that > Intel unveiled today, running it on a test machine at the SC11 > supercomputing > conference in Seattle. > > That means my kids may take a teraflop laptop to college -- if > their grades > don't suffer too much having access to 50-core video game consoles. > > It wasn't that long ago that Intel was boasting about the first > supercomputer > with sustained 1 teraflop performance. That was in 1997, on a > system with > 9,298 Pentium II chips that filled 72 computing cabinets. > > Now Intel has squeezed that much performance onto a matchbook-sized > chip, > dubbed "Knights Ferry," based on its new "Many Integrated Core" > architecture, > or MIC. > > It was designed largely in the Portland area and has just started > manufacturing. > > "In 15 years that's what we've been able to do. That is stupendous. > You're > witnessing the 1 teraflop barrier busting," Rajeeb Hazra, general > manager of > Intel's technical computing group, said at an unveiling ceremony. > (He holds > up the chip here) > > A single teraflop is capable of a trillion floating point > operations per > second. > > On hand for the event -- in the cellar of the Ruth's Chris Steak > House in > Seattle -- were the directors of the National Center for Computational > Sciences at Oak Ridge Laboratory and the Application Acceleration > Center of > Excellence. > > Also speaking was the chief science officer of the GENCI > supercomputing > organization in France, which has used its Intel-based system for > molecular > simulations of Alzheimer's, looking at issues such as plaque > formation that's > a hallmark of the disease. > > "The hardware is hardly exciting. ... The exciting part is doing the > science," said Jeff Nichols, acting director of the computational > center at > Oak Ridge. > > The hardware was pretty cool, though. > > George Chrysos, the chief architect of Knights Ferry, came up from the > Portland area with a test system running the new chip, which was > connected to > a speed meter on a laptop to show that it was running around 1 > teraflop. > > Intel had the test system set up behind closed doors -- on a coffee > table in > a hotel suite at the Grand Hyatt, and wouldn't allow reporters to take > pictures of the setup. > > Nor would the company specify how many cores the chip has -- just > more than > 50 -- or its power requirement. > > If you're building a new system and want to future-proof it, the > Knights > Ferry chip uses a double PCI Express slot. Chrysos said the systems > are also > likely to run alongside a few Xeon processors. > > This means that Intel could be producing teraflop chips for personal > computers within a few years, although there's lots of work to be > done on the > software side before you'd want one. > > Another question is whether you'd want a processor that powerful on > a laptop, > for instance, where you may prefer to have a system optimized for > longer > battery life, Hazra said. > > More important, Knights Ferry chips may help engineers build the next > generation of supercomputing systems, which Intel and its partners > hope to > delivery by 2018. > > Power efficiency was a highlight of another big announcement this > week at > SC11. On Monday night, IBM announced its "next generation > supercomputing > project," the Blue Gene/Q system that's heading to Lawrence Livermore > National Laboratory next year. > > Dubbed Sequoia, the system should run at 20 petaflops peak > performance. IBM > expects it to be the world's most power-efficient computer, > processing 2 > gigaflops per watt. > > The first 96 racks of the system could be delivered in December. The > Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration > uses the > systems to work on nuclear weapons, energy reseach and climate > change, among > other things. > > Sequoia complements another Blue Gene/Q system, a 10-petaflop setup > called > "Mira," which was previously announced by Argonne National Laboratory. > > A few images from the conference, which runs through Friday at the > Washington > State Convention & Trade Center, starting with perusal of Intel > boards: > > > Take home a Cray today! > > IBM was sporting Blue Genes, and it wasn't even casual Friday: > > A 94 teraflop rack: > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
