Article: Impressions of Kepler
By: Tom (noemail.delete@this.yahoo.com), April 13, 2012 3:58 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter wrote:
> How is this relevant to what I said?
When GPUs went from pixel shaders and vertex shaders to unified shaders, it solved the problem of balancing the load between the two types of calculations. Similarly, when there is a Tesla board and a graphics board in a system, the load balancing between these two boards is much easier when the two boards have the same type of GPU. If it is really true that Nvidia is diverging their graphics and computing products, it will be difficult to do load balancing across a Tesla and graphics board. So I think it would make a lot of sense for Nvidia to make Tesla and Quadro boards with this GK104 chip, especially if they have ECC for on-chip memory and DRAM.
> How is this relevant to what I said?
When GPUs went from pixel shaders and vertex shaders to unified shaders, it solved the problem of balancing the load between the two types of calculations. Similarly, when there is a Tesla board and a graphics board in a system, the load balancing between these two boards is much easier when the two boards have the same type of GPU. If it is really true that Nvidia is diverging their graphics and computing products, it will be difficult to do load balancing across a Tesla and graphics board. So I think it would make a lot of sense for Nvidia to make Tesla and Quadro boards with this GK104 chip, especially if they have ECC for on-chip memory and DRAM.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/22 06:00 PM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | fellix | 2012/03/23 01:25 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | Mike | 2012/03/23 08:24 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/23 09:02 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | Mike | 2012/03/23 09:34 AM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | David Kanter | 2012/03/23 12:15 PM |
| First impressions of Nvidia's Kepler | anon | 2012/03/23 11:37 AM |
| I use ALUs | Mark Roulo | 2012/03/23 12:59 PM |
| I use ALUs | anon | 2012/03/23 02:07 PM |
| I use ALUs | Mark Roulo | 2012/03/23 03:12 PM |
| I use ALUs | anon | 2012/03/23 04:08 PM |
| Makes no sense... | EduardoS | 2012/03/23 05:30 PM |
| Makes no sense... | anon | 2012/03/23 06:14 PM |
| Makes no sense... | David Kanter | 2012/03/25 10:45 AM |
| Makes no sense... | fellix | 2012/03/24 05:41 AM |
| Comparing against the 560 | Cat | 2012/03/26 08:51 AM |
| Comparing against the 560 | David Kanter | 2012/03/26 09:24 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Martin | 2012/03/27 06:17 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | David Kanter | 2012/03/27 08:47 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Martin | 2012/03/27 10:52 AM |
| .msi unarchiver? | hobold | 2012/03/28 10:20 AM |
| .msi unarchiver? | Joe | 2012/03/28 12:55 PM |
| .msi unarchiver? | Martin | 2012/03/29 12:53 AM |
| Shuffle Instruction | Rohit | 2012/03/27 12:04 PM |
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| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | David Kanter | 2012/03/28 03:14 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | Rohit | 2012/03/28 08:53 PM |
| Workgroups vs. warps/wavefronts | Lee Howes | 2012/03/29 06:38 AM |
| Threads | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 11:36 AM |
| Fixed (NT) | David Kanter | 2012/04/09 11:37 AM |
| Heterogeneous GPUs | Oscar Eddington | 2012/03/28 07:41 PM |
| Heterogeneous GPUs | Gary M. | 2012/04/06 04:35 PM |
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| Different shader cores | Tom | 2012/04/11 02:36 PM |
| Nope... | David Kanter | 2012/04/12 01:10 AM |
| Nope... | Tom | 2012/04/13 03:58 PM |
| Nope... | David Kanter | 2012/04/14 12:24 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | Tom | 2012/04/15 06:11 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | David Kanter | 2012/04/15 10:11 PM |
| Load balancing between Tesla and graphics boards | Anon | 2012/04/16 05:05 PM |
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| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Groo | 2012/04/04 08:41 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Michael S | 2012/04/04 06:24 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Alexko | 2012/04/04 08:43 AM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | EduardoS | 2012/04/04 03:37 PM |
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| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Tom | 2012/04/04 05:36 PM |
| Why isn't AMD hardware used for GPU computing? | Brett | 2012/04/04 06:55 PM |
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| Predictions about Kepler | EduardoS | 2012/04/18 03:38 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Anon | 2012/04/18 08:48 PM |
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| Predictions about Kepler | Groo | 2012/04/19 09:13 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | anon | 2012/04/19 03:26 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Groo | 2012/04/20 08:01 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Alex L. | 2012/04/20 03:41 PM |
| Predictions about Kepler | Anon | 2012/04/21 09:34 AM |
| Predictions about Kepler | mpx | 2012/04/21 11:23 PM |
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