The Parallel View
The lessons of cluster HPC may prove valuable to the mainstream
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Before we get started, I wanted to mention my recent review of the new Appro Tetra GPU server which is part of the Fermi wave hitting the market. The Appro box is rather unique in that they managed to cram four Fermi cards (M2050) into a 1U box. Speaking of Fermi, yesterday I was at the HPC Financial Markets conference in New York city. As I perused the vendor tables, I noticed a vendor touting 2.01 TeraFLOPS using four M2050 cards in a big tower case. Having just spent a lot of time getting intimate with this hardware, I asked them how they managed to get such a mind-boggling number. They said it was actually the sum of the theoretical FLOPS for all four cards. Sigh. As politely as I could, I suggested that they not advertise such BS (Bovine Solids) because it creates impossible expectations for the…
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