By: EBFE (x.delete@this.y.com), August 12, 2012 8:27 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
jp (asdfasdf.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 10, 2012 1:23 am wrote:
> Eric (eric.kjellen.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 9, 2012 5:12 pm wrote:
> >
> jp (asdfasdf.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 9, 2012 1:58 pm wrote:
> > >
> EBFE
> > (x.delete@this.y.com) on July 25, 2012 3:25 am wrote:
> > >
> > GCN
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Yes I
> > > didn't see
> AMD:s GCN arch in the charts?
> > >
> > >
> > GCN is the first
> single chip ever to
> > > push 1 TFLOP DP. And the new
> > professional
> edition has
> > > ECC.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-08-08/amd_unveils_teraflop_gpu_with_
> >
> >
> > ecc_support.html?featured=top
> >
> > That's very impressive,
> particularly with TDP
> > at 274W. Though we should probably expect Tesla K20
> to arrive soon and deliver
> > higher performance in a comparable power
> envelope. I wonder why AMD hasn't
> > released or announced an HPC oriented
> compute card based on the same GPU. Could
> > the reason be that AMD software
> tools are still immature in comparison with
> > Nvidia's and Intel's
> offerings?
>
>
> Well I've been working with their tools using OpenCL on AMD
> cards and it is currently far more immature when compared to working with CUDA
> on Nvidia cards when it comes to driver reliability, developer environment,
> documentation, and feature set.
Can you elaborate it? esp. 'feature set'
> Eric (eric.kjellen.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 9, 2012 5:12 pm wrote:
> >
> jp (asdfasdf.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 9, 2012 1:58 pm wrote:
> > >
> EBFE
> > (x.delete@this.y.com) on July 25, 2012 3:25 am wrote:
> > >
> > GCN
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Yes I
> > > didn't see
> AMD:s GCN arch in the charts?
> > >
> > >
> > GCN is the first
> single chip ever to
> > > push 1 TFLOP DP. And the new
> > professional
> edition has
> > > ECC.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-08-08/amd_unveils_teraflop_gpu_with_
> >
> >
> > ecc_support.html?featured=top
> >
> > That's very impressive,
> particularly with TDP
> > at 274W. Though we should probably expect Tesla K20
> to arrive soon and deliver
> > higher performance in a comparable power
> envelope. I wonder why AMD hasn't
> > released or announced an HPC oriented
> compute card based on the same GPU. Could
> > the reason be that AMD software
> tools are still immature in comparison with
> > Nvidia's and Intel's
> offerings?
>
>
> Well I've been working with their tools using OpenCL on AMD
> cards and it is currently far more immature when compared to working with CUDA
> on Nvidia cards when it comes to driver reliability, developer environment,
> documentation, and feature set.
Can you elaborate it? esp. 'feature set'
