Re:Sorting with GPUs: A Survey
by ryanpepper on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:45AM
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In academia it's also because NVidia does a lot of stuff to make your life easy.
For example, NVidia came to our University in the UK and provided training for £20 an academic/PhD student for a 2 day course on how to use CUDA and with performance tips, hands on porting of code, etc. They also give away CUDA cards to academics under a hardware grant scheme, so it's possible to get a free Titan Xp this year for a research group.
There's not really an equivalent for AMD or Intel; a Xeon Phi Knights Landing chip is significantly more expensive than a consumer level GPU, and the same cost as a workstation GPU, and it's a lot harder to get good performance from it. It also doesn't seem like AMD are targeting this market, at least not currently.
For example, NVidia came to our University in the UK and provided training for £20 an academic/PhD student for a 2 day course on how to use CUDA and with performance tips, hands on porting of code, etc. They also give away CUDA cards to academics under a hardware grant scheme, so it's possible to get a free Titan Xp this year for a research group.
There's not really an equivalent for AMD or Intel; a Xeon Phi Knights Landing chip is significantly more expensive than a consumer level GPU, and the same cost as a workstation GPU, and it's a lot harder to get good performance from it. It also doesn't seem like AMD are targeting this market, at least not currently.