Comments for "A Nerd's Dream - supercomputer built from 8 GPUs" Video at VideoSift.com

By ashes2flames

ashes2flames (http://www.videosift.com/member/ashes2flames) — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:55:43 -0700

This is brilliant.
Does anyone know the name of the project where they took scans of thin slices of an entire human body to form a virtual 3D model?

By kulpims

kulpims (http://www.videosift.com/member/kulpims) — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:25:46 -0700

that would be the visible human project

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:35:00 -0700

Who thinks these guys were really wearing bras on their heads and trying to make Kelly Lebrock?

This is very cool though.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:57:03 -0700

this guy is so geeky that I think he should be eligible to receive disability payments

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:59:57 -0700

*hypersalivate over that stack of new 9 series geforce cards .. I'm about ready to order another 9600GT, the next time my 7900GTX ruins another round of BF2.

The 9 series feels really good in the hand, well built metal enclosures. Notice they are flush with each other in the video. Do you think Nvidia designed them so their air channels are cooperative when multiple cards are aligned?

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:06:54 -0700

I take it these cards are really good at tomographical reconstruction because it's a job involving images and these cards are designed to process images. The video goes on about the supercomputing equivalency of the box though, but I am thinking the whole time -- yeah -- for graphics work. Can a video card be harnessed to speed up other tasks? How about faster rendering in programs like 3D studio max? Thats image-y. Obviously not I guess or they'd be doing it already.

By oileanach

oileanach (http://www.videosift.com/member/oileanach) — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:37:47 -0700

Check out NVIDIA's CUDA language that lets developers program the GPU. They give examples of many other tasks that have been done, but basically some tasks lend themselves to parallel execution more than others. It's a good thing these guys in Antwerp didn't assume it couldn't be done since it wasn't being done!

By Memorare

Memorare (http://www.videosift.com/member/Memorare) — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:55:04 -0700

lol nerds all look alike the world over.
imagine: you could play WoW, AoC and WAR beta simultaneously!

>faster rendering in programs like 3D studio max?
hmmm, i betcha it could. nvidia or ati should be working with these guys to do just that.

By westy

westy (http://www.videosift.com/member/westy) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:56:02 -0700

NVIDEA HAVE some grfx cards specifically used for rendering in 3ds max/xsi however thay use different drivers and nvidea charge a premium for the cards apparently theres a hack to allow you to get a standard nvidea card to work with the drivers but i don't know how.

fortunately for me all my 3dsmax work is low polly games stuff

By anyprophet

anyprophet (http://www.videosift.com/member/anyprophet) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:09:04 -0700

edit: nm

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:59:47 -0700

Tags for this video have been changed from 'fastra, 9800, GX2, Lian Li, Happy Geeks' to 'fastra, 9800, GX2, Lian Li, Happy Geeks, tomography, antwerp, supercomputer, gpu' - edited by lucky760

By Zonbie

Zonbie (http://zonbie.videosift.com) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:15:52 -0700

*science

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:15:52 -0700

Adding video to channels (Science) - requested by Zonbie.