Jaguar is Getting a GPU Upgrade, to Make it the World's Fastest Supercomputer Again

NVIDIA's GPU technology is redefining parallel computing and it is going to become even more prominent in the near future.

With the wisdom of our government it supports DARPA and future super computers. It’s pitiful that no matter how fast our technology grows, the decision making process of our government officials to make a balance budget continues to be a snails journey.

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Those who share and implement hate will one day be swallowed up by their own parasitical worms.

It's ok, pretty soon computers like Titan will be making the political decisions for us.

And no, not in the sense of the robocalyps.

I hope we can start doing that soon... cause this whole politics thing is getting old.

Sooooooooo, how fast is it? What's the number of petaflops it can process? Did I miss that somewhere in the article?

Ahhhh, a projected processing rate of 20 petaflops... How fast is the human brain? Does anyone know?

Yeah, but will it get a spiffy new paint job like it has with the Jaguar on it now? But what kind of mascot are they using for a Titan? It sounds like an insurance company instead of a computer. It sounds like they have a good computer hardware department, but bad marketing guys.

@mpeniak --

Fan boy much?

NVIDIA has an advantage only because of accident of history: a jump on market positioning in the arena that gave CUDA a head start (ATI tried to catch up with Stream) and when they adopted compliance with emerging standards.

The article did not say that NVIDIA GPUs are used because they are better at parallel processing, it simply said that parallel processing is the role they are taking.

OpenCL has been emerging as the defacto standard and has been leveling the playing field. Now you can buy a large lot of NVIDIA GPUs when you find a deal and a large lot of AMD GPUs when you find a deal and write code that does not care about CUDA or Stream. You can use OpenCL for the lot. It's a cross platform standard.

By the way, on a historical note: When ATI was ATI, they didn't give a crap about all of this new-fangled stuff. They didn't give a crap about their consumers, either. AMD didn't fully acquire ATI until 2008. They've done an astounding turn-around and have pretty much folded up the "ATI" tent and kicked it to the curb. So you might say that the "AMD GPU" is a recent development.

NVIDIA's early advantage has eroded substantially. The Fermi/Tesla architecture is still highly desirable in the HPC arena because of its ubiquity. But I wouldn't count on "strength in numbers" lasting forever.

The fact is that both NVIDIA and AMD will be redefining parallel computing.

By the way, mpeniak, the thing to crack on AMD about is pulling a joke on themselves with the new Bulldozer, with performs worse in many ways than the 6 core Phenom II it was intended to replace. They shot themselves in the foot even in their price/performance niche, not to mention taking a step backwards in any attempt to compete with Intel.

Embarrassing.

@qill

Not sure if you are a intel fan boy or not but I tell ya this right now

I have a phenom II denab 940 that I OC to 3.7 NB to 2.4 stable on air cooling yes air cooling been running it like this for 2 years Guess how much the chip cost me 189 dollars. Guess what my benchmarks say compared to the 1000 dollar i7 at the time... Beat it...yeah sure you can OC the i7 and win but my chip is 189 intels is 1000....sorry to tell ANY one out there AMD wins. Also there is not a SINGLE average consumer or even GAMER that will ever actually be able to tell a true diff between intel and AMD if you say you do you either don't know how to set up a PC or you are fooling your self.

... and i got an intel 970 to 4.4 on watercooling.. blah blah blah.. it's quieter and faster than yours... blah blah, i have to look at the case to tell if it's running.. blah blah... BARF!

it doesn't matter how "fast" yours or my CPU benchmarks... it only actually matters that it's fast enough for what we need it for. If i need 2 extra cores than you that perform faster than anything else sold STOCK for $500 than it's PERFECT and cannot be improved upon in anyway..

If you quad core amd is working for what you need it for and was what your could afford then it's PERFECT for YOU.

i never understood bragging rights being preached to others... all that person does is make the assumtion that the person they're bragging to is also in the "i've overclocked and shortened the life of my cpu/motherboard/memory when a more moderate overclock would have been perfectly sufficient for my needs but i can afford a sports car and my job is crap so this makes up for it if i can scream it from the top of the world group of people"

IF you're at a lan party, or convention and you're talking to another overclocking enthuesiast who likes resetting his CMOS 20 times in the first month of ownership, well.. ok sure... scream away.

BUT... a virtually verbalized position that AMD has made an error with there new design is in no way mentioning overclocking at all, never mind asking anyones is.... in fact it would ONLY do so IF your chip was in fact in the "bulldozer" design family.

cheers, eh

i have a Compaq Presario 4508 that uses windows ME with a 20 gb hard drive and 256 mb of ram. top that.

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btw amd fans bulldozer is a fail takes 8 cores to match an intel 2600 at performance when the amd fx 8150 has a 40% OC and the 2600 is stock.not to mention its slower per core with data rate and consumes 30w more power for "similar" specs
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx-8150--8120-6100-and-4100-performance-review/
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx-8150-processor-review/

@JediMindset,
As much as you possess this machine, I cannot imagine it actually working. May I have your address to mail sympathy card? The purpose of ME was a NEW operating system sold by Microsoft to make a quick buck. The reality of ME was it was all beta and full of bugs and holes and dents. Microsoft would like to thank all the suckers who bought it and keep them very wealthy. Oh, I did not mean to call you a sucker. No insult intended.

I remember the good old days, when computers had lights of various colors, and spinning reels of tape. The floor had a whooshing sound of air, to keep the whole room cool.

Now the best computers have a billboard in front of them with a Jaguar. So are we NOT supposed to see the Wizard Oz hidden behind the Jaguar drape?

@Grunt

lol just kidding for the most part. my friend gave me an old computer his mother had in storage for over 10 years. i need the hard drive but you are right its trash. couldnt even get verison fios to work on it. its trash. after retrieving the 20 gb hard drive i gave it a horrific fate crushing it with a sledgehammer lol. good riddance.

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- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri

@Delkomatic

Um. No. Not an Intel fanboy. I use both.

My primary has a Phenom II x6 1100T overclocked on air. (With 4 HD 6970s for number crunching. I'd go with 4 HD 6990s, but I'd have to have an electrician come in and fish in a dedicated circuit to avoid blowing fuses and starting fires. I may just do that, since we took out the hot tub that was on a 50 amp 220 circuit and I could just have him trench about 15 feet further and come in through the wall. I'd also have to water-cool. But the room would get hot in summer.)

The BD is a fail both from a technology standpoint and a marketability standpoint.

AMD should rightfully be castigated for this.

Teslas have the advantage that they do not have the capability to output video. You don't need video for HPC, so that is why they are so well positioned and available in the marketplace. AMD's GPUs are just as good. It's the packaging, which they could change overnight.

Looking at the picture in this article, I just wonder why we are not allowed to actually see the great and wonderful supper computer. Would we visually be disappointed?

supper, lol.

wow now im really confused.... so who is the real BubbaGump? Q,Grunt,Sprite or Komiko? lmao!!

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The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.

- Abu-al-Ala al-Marri

i'm glad we are reclaiming a record from China