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I think the Anton machines for simulating molecular dynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)) sho
by mechagodzilla 10y ago
I think the Anton machines for simulating molecular dynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)) show that this has already changed. The 8 year old Anton 1 machines are still ~1-2 orders of magnitude faster than commodity clusters, and the now 3 year old Anton 2 is another order of magnitude faster still.
- stcredzero 10y agoThe way an ALU or CUDA core gets its data to operate on and where that data goes and the latency involved are the big deal for large computational tasks now. Specialized ASICs also can give a huge advantage. With specialization, you can eliminate overhead. People keep talking about reconfigurable arrays of hardware as well.