Okay so the pun was a little obvious, but NVIDIA has just announced the specifications and name for the development kit used to develop for their ARM-based GPU computing platform. The development kit will provide a method to build and test applications on a platform similar to what will be found in the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre’s upcoming GPU supercomputer until you are ready to deploy the finished application with real data on the real machine. Such is the life of a development units.
Carma: What goes around, comes around… right Intel?
The development kit is quite modest in its specifications:
- Tegra3 ARM A9 CPU
- Quadro 1000M GPU (96 CUDA Cores)
- 2GB system RAM, 2GB GPU RAM
- 4x PCIe Gen1 CPU to GPU link
- 1000Base-T networking support
- SATA, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB.
Would this be a good BitCoin
Would this be a good BitCoin generator? Maybe a stack of these in a corner would be pretty efficient.
I think we’ve reached the
I think we’ve reached the point where the only efficient BitCoin generator is getting paid for some task or trade with a disproportionately high price.
Scott,
Is it not the case
Scott,
Is it not the case that their HPC aims are centered around their GPU’s, and not the Denver ARM project? I thought the latter was to develop ARM CPU parts for servers and desktops, not for HPC computing. Aren’t they different things? Can you elaborate or clarify please?
The brunt of the computing
The brunt of the computing power would be from the GPUs of course. I should note I was never breifed from NVIDIA or anyone for this, so I am just going by press releases. I was under the impression that Tegra3 would be their development platform and they would at least slightly change the final architecture for the actual HPC environment. Apparently, my intuition might be wrong, it seems like the plan is mostly just to stack a bunch of them together.
Thanks for the comment.