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Nvidia Volta.
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Dude, you got the real Iron.
I suppose I could ask what you are running with all that GPU power, but I doubt you would be at liberty to tell me.
ML training.Dude, you got the real Iron.
I suppose I could ask what you are running with all that GPU power, but I doubt you would be at liberty to tell me.
That's so Last Millenium.Moon Landing, that's amazing.
We're working on Mars Landing.
Ah. I was looking for that picture when I was spec'ing out my Octane Render box recently.
The one I got is a SuperMicro 4028GR-TRT 4U box with Dual Xeon E5-26xx v4's and 8x GTX 1080's installed in it. Don't have any photos handy, but it sure puts our relatively new CPU render farm in the shade. A serious piece of kit and pretty inexpensive, all things considered.
The one I got is a SuperMicro 4028GR-TRT 4U box with Dual Xeon E5-26xx v4's and 8x GTX 1080's installed in it. Don't have any photos handy, but it sure puts our relatively new CPU render farm in the shade. A serious piece of kit and pretty inexpensive, all things considered.
New fluff: https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/nvidia-volta-gpu-specifications
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200 to 300 CUDA cores per Xeon thread is our current sweet spot (although several systems are at 80 CUDA cores per Xeon thread because their jobs are more CPU heavy). Eight GPUs per dual-socket system wouldn't be as cost effective for us as two dual-socket systems with four GPUs each.
And while SuperMicro makes some great systems, we're heavily invested in the HPE "lights-out" management eco-system - so bringing in random other servers would add to management complexity and cost. It's great to give the BIOS the URL of an ISO image, and boot from it.
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Our jobs are a mix of CPU and GPU work. (Setup in CPU, analysis in GPU, consolidation in CPU.)
200 to 300 CUDA cores per Xeon thread is our current sweet spot (although several systems are at 80 CUDA cores per Xeon thread because their jobs are more CPU heavy). Eight GPUs per dual-socket system wouldn't be as cost effective for us as two dual-socket systems with four GPUs each.
And while SuperMicro makes some great systems, we're heavily invested in the HPE "lights-out" management eco-system - so bringing in random other servers would add to management complexity and cost. It's great to give the BIOS the URL of an ISO image, and boot from it.
Yep, that's why we wish, but they've just done that for Pascal. Just so much later.
LINK TO OFFICIAL FEEDBACK FORM:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/mac-pro.html
Shouldn't it also be Nvidia's thing to make the web driver work on the first day of the Volta debut? And don't they (both) watch what we say here?
The first Volta chips could easily be $10K each - and might not be available as standard PCIe cards. (Same as the Pascal launch.)
Having drivers available when consumer Volta PCIe cards ship would be a nice goal, however. Perhaps Apple is eyeing Volta for the mMP....
By all means feel free to contact Nvidia too. However, I recall Nvidia CEO's statement that Apple drivers are really hard to do without Apple's help.
Which makes it really interesting that Nvidia released Pascal drivers shortly after Apple did its mea culpa about the Tube.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/nvidia-volta-gpu-specifications
Nothing really new - but it does suggest that GV100 will come first with HBM2 for HPC, then PCIe card on GV104 with GDDR6 later in the year.
Nothing really new - but it does suggest that GV100 will come first with HBM2 for HPC, then PCIe card on GV104 with GDDR6 later in the year.
Same here… small film production film, in a +5000 employee company.
No one messes with our stuff!
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How can this be done? Officially, I mean.
Look a few posts above at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nvidia-volta.2043059/page-2#post-24533259
The first 14 came in...guess that I'll get a few days of Pascal goodness before the Volta news comes out. The other six should arrive Monday according to the tracking number.I just ordered twenty GTX 1080 Ti cards.
I really hope that turns out to be a $14K mistake
They're locked in a cabinet under some empty boxes....
I need to follow around whatever UPS delivery truck goes to your place, and wait for it to hit a big bump in the road.
Volta is the successor to Pascal. https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/nvidia-volta-gpu-specifications
Like Pascal, it will likely first appear as expensive high-end GPUs for supercomputer applications, then over the course of the next year come out in consumer cards.
https://www.extremetech.com/computi...cient-150-petaflop-supercomputers-for-the-doe
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