Re:Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meet...
by sndean on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:38AM
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> GPU acceleration in scientific computing
> it's still hanging around but realizing a 20% speedup on certain classes of problems
It really varies though. In grad school I felt like god when some molecular dynamics simulations running on my pair of GTX 760s finished faster than the same thing running on my advisor's 96-core CPU cluster.
Point taken, though, that it was over-hyped. There were lots of conference presentations with GPU-acceleration in the title (kind of like deep learning is now).
> it's still hanging around but realizing a 20% speedup on certain classes of problems
It really varies though. In grad school I felt like god when some molecular dynamics simulations running on my pair of GTX 760s finished faster than the same thing running on my advisor's 96-core CPU cluster.
Point taken, though, that it was over-hyped. There were lots of conference presentations with GPU-acceleration in the title (kind of like deep learning is now).