On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, karan pratap singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Narendra Sisodiya < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ISRO builds India''s fastest supercomputer SAGA-220 >> >> Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to >> be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS >> (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second). >> >> The supercomputer “SAGA-220″, built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing >> Facility located at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram >> at a cost of about Rs 14 crore was inaugurated by K Radhakrishnan, Chairman >> ISRO at VSSC today, ISRO said in a statement. >> >> The new Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based supercomputer, “SAGA-220″ >> (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 TeraFLOPS) is being >> used by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems. >> >> “SAGA-220” is fully designed and built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre >> using commercially available hardware, open source software components and >> in house developments. >> >> The system uses 400 NVIDIA Tesla 2070 GPUs and 400 Intel Quad Core Xeon >> CPUs supplied by WIPRO with a high speed interconnect. >> >> With each GPU and CPU providing a performance of 500 GigaFLOPS and 50 >> GigaFLOPS respectively, the theoretical peak performance of the system >> amounts to 220 TeraFLOPS, the statement said. >> >> The present GPU system offers significant advantage over the conventional >> CPU based system in terms of cost, power and space requirements, it said. >> >> The system is environmentally green and consumes a power of only 150 KW. >> This system can also be easily scaled to many PetaFLOPS (1000 TeraFLOPS). >> >> read more at - >> http://news.icbse.com/indias-fasted-supercomputer-saga220-1214 >> >> >> I would highly suggest to have GPU based mini-supercomputer in our >> engineering colleges too. For example a student from Punjab University made >> distributed computing using NVIDIA's CUDA processors... >> > Nothing like a "CUDA processor" exists there. CUDA is an extension of C/C++ to program on GPUs. > Who is this student? I am in Panjab University and have not heard of anyone > working on CUDA, though I do have seniors working on the Cloud and Grid > Computing as part of their PhD Thesis Projects....I am just curious :) > > If you mean Remaldeep Singh( from PU), then he just got into GSoC for > NUIGroup's tBeta for implementing GPU support in Nvidia CUDA. But he hasnn't > worked much on CUDA as of now. > > from > Karan Pratap Singh > PULUG > Panjab University > Chandigarh > > >> >> More at - > >> >> http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/miller/Courses/CSE633/Suraj-Balchand-F2010.pdf >> >> http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/1_0/NVIDIA_CUDA_Programming_Guide_1.0.pdf >> >> >> >> -- >> ┌─────────────────────────┐ >> │ Narendra Sisodiya >> │ http://narendrasisodiya.com >> └─────────────────────────┘ >> >> -- >> LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
