In this video, Buddy Bland from Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes the new Titan supercomputer, which just came in at #1 on the TOP500. As a hybrid system, Titan derived 100 percent of its LINPACK performance from NVIDIA K20X accelerators.
We were able to get a 10x improvement on our LINPACK score versus what we got with Jaguar three years ago for only 19 percent more power. So that’s a big win. And that carries over to the many applications also. We will see a big improvement in the performance with only a minor increase in the total power that’s being used. And we have to do that as we move to the Exascale machines that we’ll be building in the future.”
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AMD and NVIDIA must be happy as you’ve out flopped the now number 2 I suspect you get a good bit more single precision flops. Personally I reckon I could use up all this power with a few students and my high dimensional math art but I suspect you’ll get more efficiency than I get with some real science.
A little prediction of mine is that you guys will trade with accuracy a lot more in the chips in order to get good solid biological simulations in the future at exascale.