Tag: Cell processor
Where else can you get a half a petaflop of computing power for around $2 million?
Dr. Ashwini Nanda has been at the center of some of the most cutting-edge HPC projects and initiatives in the world. In this interview, Dr. Nanda talks about high performance computing in India, how he sees the industry today, and what led him to start up his company, HPC Links.
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The roadmap not taken.
The Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Lab employed a hybrid Cell-Opteron architecture to be the first system to reach the petaflop milestone. But with the meteoric rise of more powerful general-purpose GPUs, the prospects for more Cell-based supercomputing may be dimming.
An in-depth look at the computational efficiency of CPUs, GPUs and the Cell processor.
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