Sandia National Labs Visualizes Some Of The World's Largest Simulations Using NVIDIA

Vikingod · Nov 16, 2005, 03:24 PM

Sandia National Labs, Kitware, Inc., and NVIDIA Corporation today announced a major advance in large-data scientific visualization and rendering for simulations being run on Sandia's new supercomputer, Red Storm. Sandia's Red RoSE visualization cluster is being used to render this data, allowing scientists to analyze real world problems with extraordinary precision and fidelity in fields such as national defense and security, aerospace and environmental research.
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Press Release: NVIDIA

aerospace · Nov 16, 2005, 03:58 PM

I don't understand this move. ATI was just praised over having the ability of executing 83 Gflops over Nvidia's anemic performance in the same tests.
Is it the architecture of the Quadro that makes it special? If so, maybe the Quadro should be compared in the same tests.

"Houston gave several examples of applications where GPUs can outshine CPUs for certain types of data-parallel processing. One of the most exciting was an implementation of the GROMACS library that's used for protein folding, as in Folding@Home. Although the GROMACS implementation wasn't yet optimized for the Radeon X1000 series and still used Pixel Shader 2.0b, the Radeon X1800 XT was already performing between 2.5 and 3.5 times faster than a Pentium 4 3GHz processor. The GeForce 7800 GTX didn't fare so well, achieving only about half the speed of the P4 3GHz. Houston offered a laundry list of things that GPGPU developers need from graphics chip makers, including better information about how to program the GPU and more direct access to the hardware."
The link is here

Nov 16, 2005, 03:24 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Sandia National Labs Visualizes Some Of The World's Largest Simulations Using NVIDIA Sandia National Labs, Kitware, Inc., and NVIDIA Corporation today announced a major advance in large-data scientific visualization and rendering for simulations being run on Sandia's new supercomputer, Red Storm. Sandia's Red RoSE visualization cluster is being used to render this data, allowing scientists to analyze real world problems with extraordinary precision and fidelity in fields such as national defense and security, aerospace and environmental research. ___________ Press Release: NVIDIA

Nov 16, 2005, 03:58 PM	#2
aerospace HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	What happened to the 85 Gflops from the x1800? I don't understand this move. ATI was just praised over having the ability of executing 83 Gflops over Nvidia's anemic performance in the same tests. Is it the architecture of the Quadro that makes it special? If so, maybe the Quadro should be compared in the same tests. "Houston gave several examples of applications where GPUs can outshine CPUs for certain types of data-parallel processing. One of the most exciting was an implementation of the GROMACS library that's used for protein folding, as in Folding@Home. Although the GROMACS implementation wasn't yet optimized for the Radeon X1000 series and still used Pixel Shader 2.0b, the Radeon X1800 XT was already performing between 2.5 and 3.5 times faster than a Pentium 4 3GHz processor. The GeForce 7800 GTX didn't fare so well, achieving only about half the speed of the P4 3GHz. Houston offered a laundry list of things that GPGPU developers need from graphics chip makers, including better information about how to program the GPU and more direct access to the hardware." The link is here