Guest Arrow Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/10/building-a-super-computer-with-a-power-drill-and-a-lot-of-gpus/ The Titan supercomputer uses 18,688 Nvidia GPUs, has 6,329 miles of cable, cooled with 1,353 gallons of coolant, and stores data on 21,030 disks. It is rated at more than 20 petaflops. Anyone know why GPUs can have a couple thousand cores but a CPU has only 2, 4, or 6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dellta34 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I bet even that computer wont run planetside 2 with 70+ stable frames :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phantomb Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Think GPUs are designed to do many calculation intensive tasks very quickly, whereas CPUs are designed to do everything reasonably well.Most people have duel cores are the minute so writing programs for 4,6,8 cores cuts off alot of people from using it. Think that's why. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RET.CW4.ThievingSix=US= Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Think GPUs are designed to do many calculation intensive tasks very quickly, whereas CPUs are designed to do everything reasonably well.Most people have duel cores are the minute so writing programs for 4,6,8 cores cuts off alot of people from using it. Think that's why. :D Most applications wouldn't benefit from having so many cores. But the one's that do, its a pain to design a program that effectively splits the processing over 6-8 cores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RET.Maj.ShadowOp=US= Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Optimizing a program for multiple threads is......just terrible. I've had to write a simple programs to run on quad core machines and it was hard as crap keeping everything stable. Beyond that with something as complex as a game....I quit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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