Re:$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 ...
by pwang on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @01:38PM
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Maybe and maybe not. GPUs are good for problems where the appropriate data can be placed near the vector processor, a priori. There are many embarrassingly parallel problems where memory coherency does not exist, or where the input data sizes exceed what is currently available on GPUs, and for these, the bandwidth to system memory is going to be a severe bottleneck on performance.
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