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Most servers I've used don't even have a GPU. It will be interesting to see how this and other GPGPU applications for server software will shape the server park
by maaaats 12y ago
Most servers I've used don't even have a GPU. It will be interesting to see how this and other GPGPU applications for server software will shape the server parks in the future.
- trentnelson 12y agoOnly a matter of time I guess. I was tickled pink when I first logged into my most recent client's standard production box and saw that a 1TB Fusion I/O card was standard. Definitely altered the way I architected certain things. I could get Oracle to sustain 1.2GB/sec read/write pretty easily -- plus four other I/O channels that supported about 600MB/sec each, was fun figuring out the best way to organize everything such that CPU and I/O were optimally saturated. Throw a GPGPU or Xeon Phi into the mix as well? Fwooaah, fun times.
- perlgeek 12y agoIn the scientific computing community, servers with GPUs are pretty common, and available off-the-shelf. See for example http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/gpu.cfm http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/gpu.cfm So asking the folks that already use that stuff could give pretty accurate predictions.
- nl 12y agoGPUs on servers are a growing submarket. It's big enough for Amazon to offer them: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cluster_computing.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_clu...