Doug,
Thanks for bringing this up. I forgot to mention this in one of my
earlier posts. If AMD created their own version of NVidia's CUDA Centers
of Excellence (CCoE) or Intel's Parallel Computing Centers (IPCC), that
would go far in reducing the main barrier to adoption of AMD GPUs. I
believe one of the goals of these centers is to port popular
applications to the respective architectures.
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda_centers_ccoe
https://software.intel.com/en-us/ipcc
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Prentice
On 03/04/2015 03:15 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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