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josiahsuarez
10-31-09, 10:54 AM
http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcont.asp?id=7250

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NVIDIA is scheduled to release ExaScale machine architecture in 2017,Bill Dally,chief scientist of NVIDIA at the Global Road Show organized by Institute of Process Engineering on Oct,27th.The way of introudction of architecture of eight-year later seems a bit of suspicion.However, Nvidias ambition to enter the general-purpose computing market is clear.

According to Bill Dally, NVIDIA will put 2400 throuput cores and 16 CPUs on a single chip with 300W TDP.It is well known that NVIDIA will make CPU sooner or later.This is obvious evidence in definite roadmap at first. However, Huang stresses that NVIDIA will not make CPU, while the Bill Dally also takes Tegra as a shield in answering relevant questions.

This CPU + GPU chip from NVIDIA has also confirmed that they will achieve Fusion in the opposite direction of Intel and AMD.

Each throuput core include three single-precision floating-point unit and a double-precision floating-point unit, the chip is expected to provide a total of 40T single-precision floating-point processing power and 13 double-precision floating-point processing capabilities. Node using this chip also has 128GB of memory, and 512GB of phase-change memory, or flash memory as a high-speed local memory. This node architecture is very similar with current super-computer.Although the figure is amazing,this product can be realized as long Moores Law takes effect.

The wole system is made up of 128 cabinets,which can provide up to 2Efplop computing capabilities with a TDP of 10W.

NVIDIAs future product appears to be powerful.However,Green giant wont give detailed time frame just like the preparation of Exaflop, phase-change memory, heterogeneous processors.

Johnny C
10-31-09, 11:49 AM
http://en.inpai.com.cn/doc/enshowcont.asp?id=7250

Skynet....

TheANIMAL
10-31-09, 02:28 PM
Thats nothing, by 2024 Nvidia cards will run off bacon juice.

josiahsuarez
10-31-09, 02:57 PM
in soviet russia, video card runs YOU!

Ninja Prime
10-31-09, 10:29 PM
Weeee unrealistic PR babble!

This just in, Intel predicts they will have a NinjaScale(tm) machine by 2015, with built in katana action!

Absolution
10-31-09, 10:47 PM
Only 50TB DRAM? **** I thought we'd be into Google's of DRAM by 2017. . . of course, thats if we survive 2012. . .

I'm going with PR babble as well.

Redeemed
10-31-09, 11:18 PM
What's an ExaScale machine? :o

Muppet
11-01-09, 12:12 AM
What's an ExaScale machine? :o

It sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I have never heard of it before.

Viral
11-01-09, 01:35 AM
Nvidia seem to be aiming this at the scientific computing market, probably banking on universities and the such buying tens of thousands for super computers. So the "cabinet" with 384 nodes is a cluster of 384 cards, and the 10MW (read Mega Watt, not Watt like the article stated) "system" is 128 of the above cabinets.

The shift into this new market segment is starting with Tesla, whenever that launches. This will mean a lot more money for nvidia due to premium prices for these parts (even though they will have more DRAM and probably better power efficiency). OTOH gamers may suffer when yields aren't so good and nvidia have orders for 100,000 units. :\

Redeemed
11-01-09, 01:43 AM
Nvidia seem to be aiming this at the scientific computing market, probably banking on universities and the such buying tens of thousands for super computers. So the "cabinet" with 384 nodes is a cluster of 384 cards, and the 10MW (read Mega Watt, not Watt like the article stated) "system" is 128 of the above cabinets.

The shift into this new market segment is starting with Tesla, whenever that launches. This will mean a lot more money for nvidia due to premium prices for these parts (even though they will have more DRAM and probably better power efficiency). OTOH gamers may suffer when yields aren't so good and nvidia have orders for 100,000 units. :\

Which is where AMD, and *possibly*, Intel come into play. "Possibly" Intel because we've yet to see how Larabee will perform. :)

jolle
11-01-09, 04:41 AM
What's an ExaScale machine? :o
Presumably hinted as a machine to comprise the building parts of a Exaflop supercomputer.
Cray (who builds supercomputers) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory was talking at GTC about how GPUs might be necessary to reach the Exaflop limit without breaking the power usage barrier, which determines the cost per year to run the machine.
And how the lack of ECC support has been something of a barrier in large scale use.

Exaflop = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 Floating point operations per second.
Streams from GTC:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu_technology_conference.html

Lfctony
11-01-09, 10:52 AM
Really looking forward to it... :headexplode:

Ninja Prime
11-01-09, 01:47 PM
Nvidia seem to be aiming this at the scientific computing market, probably banking on universities and the such buying tens of thousands for super computers. So the "cabinet" with 384 nodes is a cluster of 384 cards, and the 10MW (read Mega Watt, not Watt like the article stated) "system" is 128 of the above cabinets.

The shift into this new market segment is starting with Tesla, whenever that launches. This will mean a lot more money for nvidia due to premium prices for these parts (even though they will have more DRAM and probably better power efficiency). OTOH gamers may suffer when yields aren't so good and nvidia have orders for 100,000 units. :\

Considering RoadRunner, the fastest/largest/most power consuming supercomputer in the world today uses 2MW, they are thinking a little optimistic, lol.

Viral
11-01-09, 08:15 PM
Roadrunner is also very power efficient considering it's throughput. I think 10MW would be about right, possibly a bit more. GPU's are definitely a lot more power hungry than CPU's but efficiency is another matter.

I think Jaguar (2nd fastest) is being upgraded to istanbul (45nm SOI 6 core opteron) in time for the next top500 list. It might dethrone Roadrunner, it would be interesting to see how the latest in x86 technology goes against a hybrib x86/CELL in terms of power efficiency.

redviper
11-03-09, 11:59 PM
Jaguar is up to istabul now. It will dethrone RR unless the linpack run failed (they are keeping it hush hush but all the users are sure it will be number 1. 223K processors. I'll make further post when they will announce new ranknigs at SC.

edit: I should point out that Jaguar and JaguarPF are respected openscience machines instead of DOD classified machines.

Johnny C
11-09-09, 11:42 PM
I promise to make monkeys fly outta my behind in 2017....

LordJuanlo
11-10-09, 04:58 AM
I preordered two, just to be safe

Johnny C
11-10-09, 11:26 AM
I preordered two, just to be safe

Monkeys or exascale machines?

Ninja Prime
11-10-09, 11:06 PM
Monkeys or exascale machines?

Exascalemonkeys, they rule the earth in 2017, if you didn't know.

Bman212121
11-10-09, 11:51 PM
But......
















































Can it run Crysis?? :bleh:

=assassin=
11-11-09, 05:57 PM
^^ Heh was about to post the same thing :P