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What are the chances someone pulls a Toy Story and Nvidia gets SGI’d by clusters of consumer grade graphic cards? Knowing greedy nvidia they’d probably try to n
by irusensei 4y ago
What are the chances someone pulls a Toy Story and Nvidia gets SGI’d by clusters of consumer grade graphic cards? Knowing greedy nvidia they’d probably try to nerf their gaming cards for that task but its not like they are a monopoly.
- Const-me 4y agoI don’t know what the chances are, but over time it might happen. Economy of scale should not be underestimated. 30 years ago, there was a consensus x86 architecture was only good for small computers, while servers need faster specially-designed processors like IBM Power or Dec Alpha. Then AMD64 was introduced, after a while they took server market too. 15 years ago, Intel was making specialized HPC co-processors called Xeon Phi. The chips were actually good, exceeded 1 TFlop of FP64, and weren’t terribly hard to program. I think it were consumer-grade graphic cards which made it obsolete. Despite much harder to program, the raw performance numbers were better, and cost efficiency in flops/$ was an order of magnitude better.