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0 pointsrckclmbr9y ago0 comments

Wow, cheap, great for startups!

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As of last year prices for general HPC resources were running around $3/GFLOP[1], or about $500,000 for 170TFlops if my math is correct.

Sounds like this is a significant cost savings if it fits your use case.

maaku9y ago

Uh, using what hardware? The 980 Ti is about 11 TFLOP in half-precision (apples to apples). So 16x 980 Ti cards would take up twice as much rack space for $11k. Your estimate (and NVIDIA's pricing) is off by more than an order of magnitude...

mon_insider9y ago

A 980 Ti doesn't have FP16 hardware. The only Maxwell based component with such support is their Tegra part.

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wmf9y ago

Isn't the ECC tax around 10x?

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showerst9y ago

As of last year prices for general HPC resources were running around $3/GFLOP[1], or about $500,000 for 170TFlops if my math is correct.

Sounds like this is a significant cost savings if it fits your use case.

maaku9y ago

mon_insider9y ago

A 980 Ti doesn't have FP16 hardware. The only Maxwell based component with such support is their Tegra part.

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wmf9y ago

Isn't the ECC tax around 10x?

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