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Precisely explains why NVIDIA did that - to hook up all these 50k students to CUDA. Much more profitable in the long run.
by xvilka 6y ago
Precisely explains why NVIDIA did that - to hook up all these 50k students to CUDA. Much more profitable in the long run.
- fma 6y agoAll 50k Students aren't engineers...
- QuotedForTruth 6y agoAs a UF CS grad, I bet less than 100 students will get hands on this computer each year. Maybe way less than 100. Although I wasn't a graduate student so maybe way more of them have access than I realize.
- easton 6y agoDo you know how the CS program is doing these days? I heard it was on the ropes a few years ago but this looks like they are investing in it again?
- fma 6y agoAccording to the Hipergator Website: https://www.rc.ufl.edu/access/account-request/ https://www.rc.ufl.edu/access/account-request/ To be eligible for an account on HiPerGator, you must be on an education or research project that has as one of its Principal or Co-Principal investigators a faculty or staff member at the University of Florida. I'm also a UF alumni (undergrad & grad EE), and IIRC back in my day high performance computing was a grad class. I never took it, but it wouldn't surprise me if for the grad class there would be labs on the super computer where students can get limited access.
- throwgeorge 6y agoi don't know how far off you are but i had access to an 8GPU allocation last fall and all I had to do was ask. longer term would've cost money though. Interesting fact was someone in the chemistry department had something like a 360GPU allocation (probably for DFT).
- rrss 6y agoThere's a lot of ways to program these GPU supercomputers, and you are maybe overestimating how much of the HPC code is written in CUDA. Some is, for sure, but there's also a lot using OpenACC or OpenMP (C, C++, or Fortran with annotations), or frameworks like Kokkos. Recently, it also became possible to use C++17 stdpar and get GPU acceleration (https://docs.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk/compilers/c++-parallel-algorithms/index.html https://docs.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk/compilers/c++-parallel-algor...).