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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/12 Loic Tortay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tortay@cc.in2p3.fr">tortay@cc.in2p3.fr</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>If I'm not mistaken, the "Tsubame" cluster was initially using<br>Clearspeed accelerators (in Sun X4600 "fat" nodes).<br>
<br>Therefore, they probably have appropriate programs that need little<br>adaptation (or less than many) to work on the GPUs.<br><br></blockquote>
<div>Emmmm.... I'm no expert on Clearspeed, but AFAIK Clearspeeds selling point is that the cards run standard maths library functions - ie. you just 'drop in' a compatible maths library and the card gets given the computations to do.</div>
<div>This is not the same model as GPU programming.</div>
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