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Comment Re:Earth Simulator (Score 1) 37

35TFlops was the benchmarked (double precision) performance, and 15TF is theoretical peak single precision performance of the V100. You need double precision for these simulations. V100 has about 7.5TFlops double precision peak performance (with Fused Multiply-Add) So in real world performance you would need like 10 servers each with 4 V100 GPUs to match the performance (stacked on top of each other connected with Infiniband). You can also put 256GB RAM into each server (and 10TB NVM). It would still have much less RAM, but should be able to beat the Earth Simulator handily due to the extra and very concentrated arithmetic performance.

Comment Re:And with HDD prices these days... (Score 1) 161

a GTX580 can real time encode it to h264 (I know because I wrote an encoder which can actually handle such stream at 30fps),
not with the best ratio, but quite still well enough to make it storable without loosing significant quality, recompressing it better h264 wouldn't decrease the quality more, just the file size.

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