Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: none (none.delete@this.none.com), August 5, 2010 3:22 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
AM (myname4rwt@jee-male.com) on 8/5/10 wrote:
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>And, by the way, 10 papers is just a small selection, so strictly speaking finding
>some fishy stuff about all 10 unfortunately is not enough of a proof.
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>http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/06/gpus-are-only-up-to-14-times-faster-than-cpus-says-intel.html
I picked this example which claims a x160 speedup:
University of Rochester
http://cyberaide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/papers/08-cuda-biostat/vonLaszewski-08-cuda-biostat.pdf
I couldn't find where the x160 comes from, figure 7 shows a
speedup of ~ x85. They don't state what CPU they used, but
claimed speedup is vs *sequential* CPU code. I won't
pretend I understand anything of what's said in that paper,
but the speedup claim really looks bogus.
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[...]
>And, by the way, 10 papers is just a small selection, so strictly speaking finding
>some fishy stuff about all 10 unfortunately is not enough of a proof.
>
>http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/06/gpus-are-only-up-to-14-times-faster-than-cpus-says-intel.html
I picked this example which claims a x160 speedup:
University of Rochester
http://cyberaide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/papers/08-cuda-biostat/vonLaszewski-08-cuda-biostat.pdf
I couldn't find where the x160 comes from, figure 7 shows a
speedup of ~ x85. They don't state what CPU they used, but
claimed speedup is vs *sequential* CPU code. I won't
pretend I understand anything of what's said in that paper,
but the speedup claim really looks bogus.