Fermi shown at SC09

[Uber_Tiny]

I was able to attend this years SC09 conference in Portland, Oregon. I was able to see the Fermi in action, which I might ad has some pretty impressive boosts in performance from the Tesla, about 8 times more performance to be exact from the information the NVIDIA rep gave me. The card is said to be released in Q2 of next year. The memory manufactures are what is holding back the card from being released any earlier.

Fermi delivers supercomputing features and performance at 1/10th the cost and 1/20th the power of traditional CPU-only servers, with over three billion transistors on a 40nm technology and featuring 512 Cuda cores with a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface. The card also comes with NVIDIA Parallel DataCache technology, NVIDIA GigaThread™ engine, and ECC support. On the chip it also shares the L2 cache which in return gives you reduced penalty for doing an atomic memory op.

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[VW_Factor]

I wish I would have had the time to attend this, just to experience the all the hootnhollar.

[Uber_Tiny]

I wish I would have had the time to attend this, just to experience the all the hootnhollar.

Was fun if your a geek. Lots of really cool super computing going on. Saw a server blade that was completely covered in copper for the water cooling. Also talked to an individual from a company called Advanced Cluster Technologies. They had an Atom based data storage server. Pretty cool that they can lower the cost and power consumption using the Atom from Intel. They are apparently the first company to use the Atom in a server. I'll have to get hold of you next time there is another show.