![]() ![]() ![]() Students doing research for their masters are an easy target for professors and other researchers for trying out their new but risky (risk of being not true) theories. I, for example, am doing my master’s thesis. You make good points! For both cases, if it is a yield issue or a marketing strategy, nVidia would be reluctant to say it.īut let’s say it is the marketing strategy – I would say it is an understandable but conservative choice. Gaming is the engine driving the cost efficiency here, and HPC is riding on gaming’s coattails (with DP HPC being a small segment of HPC.) ![]() If nVidia was started on the premise of making cards for HPC, and did nothing for gaming, the cards would cost $5000, come out late, and use old technology instead of SotA. I can promise you, your numbers are way off. The point is, you simply cannot accurately track just how many GTX 470/480’s would be put to HPC use. How many PS3’s do your stats show were slated for HPC use? Truth is, you just don’t really know. It was found using a PS3 (which Nvidia made a simply wonder GPU for). In fact, yesterday a world record was set on PrimeGrid on the AP26 (arithmetic progression of 26) subproject ( ). You may call us crazy or weird or whatever, but in my business, i’ll accept a crazy man’s money just as fast as anyone else’s :) We buy the best parts we can, based on performance and price. Sure, us BOINC people (all 1,938,518 of us, a couple million more crunching for non-BOINC projects) may be a different breed, but the fact remains we buy parts. the Tesla C2070 still runs under 300W in PCIe with full DP (from projected specs, at least) CAL (ATI’s ‘version’ of CUDA) has gained alot of ground lately and i fear is about to gain alot doubtful. An ATI HD5870 has about 3.2x more DP performance than a GTX 480. ![]()
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