GPU Starter Kit

Red Prince wrote on 9/19/2011, 2:42 PM

Anybody interested in upgrading their GPU with this GPU Starter Kit offered by HP for “roughly 50 percent below the typical list price”?

If that is 50% off, I may as well crawl back into retirement!

Comments

rs170a wrote on 9/19/2011, 2:45 PM

We're definitely not the target market for this product :)

Mike

Red Prince wrote on 9/19/2011, 2:47 PM

I hope not. :)

Steve Mann wrote on 9/19/2011, 4:10 PM

Those are graphics servers used by outfits like Pixar or NASA. If they would run Windows (which they won't) you could encode an hour of AVCHD in a few seconds.

Let's do the math. A quad-core CPU will run about 50 Mflops (50 followed by six zeros), and this server will do 13 Tflops (13 followed by twelve zeros).

farss wrote on 9/19/2011, 4:15 PM

That's the thing for people who will buy this, the $/flop cost.
Power consumption per flop is also a consideration.

Bob.

Red Prince wrote on 9/19/2011, 5:18 PM

Yes, Steve, but they call it a GPU Starter Kit. That is a wee bit misleading, I’d say.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/19/2011, 8:18 PM

It's a kit & it's for starting hard-core processing.

"Back in the day" $15k for a rendering SGI machine was dirt cheap, they went up from there. It would be like saying "video editing starter kit" that's $30k because it includes burners, printers, a nice machine, lots of software you could ever use, etc.

apit34356 wrote on 9/20/2011, 6:20 PM

with this speed, the cpus,gpus would be waiting a lot for IO from the 12k disks or SSDs, but it would fun for 8K or 4K workflow.