Russell Baker (noemail@noemail.noemail) on 4/18/12 wrote:
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>I would like to make the following 4 predictions about Kepler:
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>1. Nvidia will release a Tesla board based on GK104 that will not have ECC for both DRAM and on-chip SRAM.

Can't comment on this one. But I will bite on the others.

>2. Someone in the financial industry will use that Tesla board for Black-Scholes
>option pricing or some other calculation used for algorithmic trading.

Noone in the financial industry will ever use a GPU for algorithmic trading. Why?
Latency on GPU compute sucks.

Sure you get a lot of throughput, but that is not what you generally need. Its lowest latency that counts, and DSP resources in a FPGA are more than adequate with far better latency characteristics compared to a GPU.

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>3. A soft error will occur in the on-chip SRAM of the Tesla board which will cause
>a stock market "flash crash" just like when the Dow dropped 600 points in 5 minutes
>on May 6, 2010 due to algorithmic trading.

Two points here:
1. There are checks in the process to ensure nothing stupid gets done in an automated way. This is mandatory and part of the risk management.
2. the 6 May 'Flash Crash' was due to a trader not an algorithm.


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>4. Nvidia will say "We're so sorry. We never imagined this could happen."

I'm no fan of nVidia but I'm not here to bite at a trolling attempt.