The one thing NVidia did right was port/support popular applications to CUDA (Amber comes to mind). I don't see how AMD can compete in this space if they don't do the same thing, but do it for their APU Opteron-X processors using HSA (should they come out with some heftier models)
-- Doug > This is part shameless self promotion, but also meant to stir some > discussion.. > > Take a look at some of the recent top results for SPEC ACCEL > http://spec.org/accel/results/accel_acc.html > /* It may not seem like much, but I can say that is the visible result > to a heck of a lot of work */ > > I have to word this carefully, but after that was submitted we fixed a > cooling issue and the score went higher.. expect better public results > in 2 weeks. (Anyone want to party at GTC?) > > Frankly, it's visible we still aren't the best performance on some > codes.. Those issues basically fall into two camps and we're working > on it. > ----------- > Having said this.. > Would anyone build an AMD GPU cluster if > 1) The GPU was 30-40% faster than a K40 > 2) It cost less > 3) OpenACC/OpenMP4/CUDA programming models were high performance and > supported > 4) More oncard ram > ----------- > The s9150 is a top end card and priced relatively in the same ballpark > as the competition.. > > Forgive me for sounding like a salesperson. > If you don't need all the ram on the card - there's the w8100 (with > fan on the card) - $1050 on Newegg! (Why do I feel like an > infomercial) > > I have 2x w8100 in a server for benchmarking and they are nice GPU. > Not as fast as a K40, but beats other cards. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ 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
