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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 02 2020, @10:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the rendering-engines dept.

Next-Gen NVIDIA Teslas Due This Summer; To Be Used In Big Red 200 Supercomputer

Thanks to Indiana University and The Next Platform, we have a hint of what's to come with NVIDIA's future GPU plans, with strong signs that NVIDIA will have a new Tesla accelerator (and underlying GPU) ready for use by this summer.

In an article outlining the installation of Indiana University's Big Red 200 supercomputer – which also happens to be the first Cray Shasta supercomputer to be installed – The Next Platform reports that Indiana University has opted to split up the deployment of the supercomputer in to two phases. In particular, the supercomputer was meant to be delivered with Tesla V100s; however the university has instead opted to hold off on delivery of their accelerators so that they can instead have NVIDIA's next-generation accelerators, which would make them among the first institutions to get the new accelerators.

The revelation is notable as NVIDIA has yet to announce any new Tesla accelerators or matching GPUs. The company's current Tesla V100s, based on the GV100 GPU, were first announced back at GTC 2017, so NVIDIA's compute accelerators are due for a major refresh. However it's a bit surprising to see anyone other than NVIDIA reveal any details about the new parts, given how buttoned-down the company normally is about such details.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 02 2020, @05:34PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday February 02 2020, @05:34PM (#952757) Journal

    They're always cutting the price...

    Not true. The GeForce (RTX) 20-series was overpriced at debut on the basis of a hyped real-time raytracing feature, and minimal effective competition from AMD. RTX 2060 launched at $350 in January 2019. They didn't lower the price when they launched "Super" refreshes in July. They have only cut the price last month to compete with AMD's Radeon RX 5600 XT. It looks like the situation will improve later this year with significant gains for Nvidia's first "7nm" GPUs and "Big Navi" from AMD (it's possible that a top-end AMD card will outperform/match the RTX 2080 Ti [archive.org]). And hopefully AMD GPUs will become more useful [towardsdatascience.com] for machine learning in the future.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday February 02 2020, @09:02PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday February 02 2020, @09:02PM (#952849)

    They have only cut the price last month to compete with AMD

    That may be true in this case, but I've been buying "tech stuff" since the Atari 800 in 1982 - hence: they're ALWAYS cutting the price.

    You may know, you may not know, are the AMD cards as widely supported by TensorFlow & friends? I've only done a superficial dive and it would seem that CUDA/NVidia are way better supported in that space.

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