Re: [Beowulf] What happened to AMD GPU?

2015-03-04 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
It appears to me that the numbers posted on that page for the card you are testing are with ECC off? I know you are asking the question "what if", but the current test isn't even apples-to-apples. We want best price-performance for our codes. We have not gone down the road of CUDA because that w

Re: [Beowulf] Definition of HPC

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: > understood, but how did you decide that was actually a good thing? >>> >>> Mark, >> >> Because it stopped the random out of memory conditions that we were >> having. >> > > aha, so basically "rebooting windows resolves my performance problems"

Re: [Beowulf] Definition of HPC

2013-04-22 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > Only for benchmarking? We have done this for years on our production >> clusters (and SGI provides a tool this and more to clean up nodes). We >> have this in our epilogue so that we can clean out memory on our diskless >> nodes so there is no

Re: [Beowulf] Definition of HPC

2013-04-18 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
Only for benchmarking? We have done this for years on our production clusters (and SGI provides a tool this and more to clean up nodes). We have this in our epilogue so that we can clean out memory on our diskless nodes so there is nothing stale sitting around that can impact the next users job.

Re: [Beowulf] Power calculations , double precision, ECC and power of APU's

2013-03-18 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> flame-wars? The people in HPC who care about SP gflops are those who >> understand the mathematics in their algorithms and don't want to waste >> very precious memory bandwidth by unnecessarily promoting their > > > I'm not disagreeing, but won

Re: [Beowulf] Power calculations , double precision, ECC and power of APU's

2013-03-18 Thread Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> trinity a10-5700 has 384 radeon 69xx cores running at 760 MHz, >> delivering 584 SP gflops - 65W iirc. but only 30 GB/s for it and >> the CPU. >> >> let's compare that to a 6930 card: 12