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Honest question: What makes this super?
by lowglow 9y ago
Honest question: What makes this super?
- pinewurst 9y agoNothing in particular - this is an announcement of two server nodes revised to support the latest (but still Pascal) GPUs (8 or 10 if lower power is ok). You can pile them up and connect them with Infiniband or OmniPath if you want to build a cluster, the same as with other comparable servers.
- pdq 9y agoThe price.
- FireBeyond 9y agoExactly, it's pretty much identical to Nvidia's own DGX-1 (actually, the DGX-1 will be faster, because it's now using the Volta GPUs, a generation ahead of Pascal): 2 x E5-2698 v3, 512GB memory, 4 x 2TB SSD, 100GB Infiniband, and 8 x P100 (or Volta). $129,000. https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/14/nvidias-saturn-v-dgx-1-cluster-stacks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/14/nvidias-saturn-v-dgx...
- lowglow 9y agoYeah, I'm not sure why I would compete with Nvidia on their own turf unless I could do something bigger/better, but Nvidia will always have the advantage of information.
- jvreeland 9y agoA big reason to buy a Cray is the experience they have. There's not a ton of people who've run large systems as long as they have. The technology may originate from Nvidia but Nvidia doesn't have a 40+ years experience building and supporting massive machines.
- mswen 9y agoVery much this. And, that they have very high-end technicians that are cleared for top secret/classified data centers.
- deepnotderp 9y agoThe Cray brand plus a doubling in price.
- fhood 9y agoI dunno, I never got past the option for three TBs of ram. At that point jealousy overtook me and I had to click away.