--- On Wed, 6/11/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hmmph.  I offer to build anyone who wants one a
> human-capacity machine for 
> $100K, using currently available stock parts, in one rack.
> Approx 10  teraflops, using Teslas.
> (http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_c870.html)
> 
> The software needs a little work...

Um, that's 10 petaflops, not 10 teraflops. I'm assuming a neural network with 
10^15 synapses (about 1 or 2 byte each) with 20 to 100 ms resolution, 10^16 to 
10^17 operations per second.  One Tesla = 350 GFLOPS, 1.5 GB, 120W, $1.3K.  So 
maybe $1 billion and 100 MW of power for a few hundred thousand of these plus 
glue.


-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]





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