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This may seem irrelevant, but as a GPU computing researcher, I'm still disappointed that GPU still hasn't made its way to be the first citizen at data centers.
by yzh 11y ago
This may seem irrelevant, but as a GPU computing researcher, I'm still disappointed that GPU still hasn't made its way to be the first citizen at data centers. I know world of HPC looks much different, but I wonder when GPU can be vastly used in data centers, and will NVIDIA's Pascal architecture make a huge impact on this?
- ploxiln 11y agoI don't think GPUs will be big with "web services" datacenters anytime soon. As the slides mentioned, the difference between this web-services stuff and HPC is that HPC has a much higher compute/data ratio. Said another way, this web-services stuff is all about moving data, collating it a bit, and less about intensive mathematical processing of it. Most of the boxes in the diagrams are datastores. Block stores, object stores, columnar stores, caches. I hate to say it but... big data. Not (as) big compute.
- xyzzyz 11y agoThey are. With as much neural networks stuff as Google does, it's pretty obvious tons of GPU-hours must be in use. http://www.wired.com/2013/05/gpus-in-the-data-center/ http://www.wired.com/2013/05/gpus-in-the-data-center/