We should see what kinds of frames we get :)

(Yes you'd have single threaded cpu bottleneck, but I can dream)

This is pretty awesome. I'm jealous you got to go. The comment about the thickness requirement of the cables for 480V compared to 208V in the first power delivery video is staggering. I'm surprised there's such a difference.

Some of the videos seem to be stopping early when I play them, and I have to skip ahead a bit to continue watching.

This is an awesome article Anand! I would love to see more super-computing like this, and maybe some in-depth discussion of how super-computing works and differs from traditional computing architectures. Thanks for the great article though!

Is there any scope of a FPGA or a group of FPGA's that replace standard algorithms with hardware implementations ?

Example : Fourier transforms, matrix multiplication.

Just think, if Moore's law holds for another few decades, you'll see this performance in a smartphone in 20-30 years...

This kind of article keeps me coming back to anandtech.com. Awesome stuff.

With all the settings turned up.

Anand, I just want to confirm the core count on the Tesla K20. So this means one of the 15 SMX blocks is disabled on the K20?

Great article. Fantastic way of showing to us tiny PC users what really big stuff looks like. Data center is one thing, but my word this stuff is, is... well that is Ultimate Computing Pr0n. For people who will never ever have a chance to visit one of the super computer centers it is quite something. Enjoyed that very much!

@Guspaz

If we get that kind of performance in phones then it is really scary prospect. :D

We currently have 1-billion-transistor chips. We'd get from there to 128 trillion, or Titan-magnitude computers, after 17 iterations of Moore's Law, or about 25 years. If you go 25 years back, it's definitely enough of a gap that today's technology looks like flying cars to folks of olden times. So even if 128-trillion-transistor devices isn't exactly what happens, we'll have *something* plenty exciting on the other end.

*Something*, but that may or may not be huge computers. It may not be an easy exponential curve all the way. We'll almost certainly put some efficiency gains towards saving cost and energy rather than increasing power, as we already are now. And maybe something crazy like quantum computers, rather than big conventional computers, will be the coolest new thing.

I don't imagine those powerful computers, whatever they are, will all be doing simulations of physics and weather. One of the things that made some of today's everyday tech hard to imagine was that the inputs involved (social graphs, all the contents of the Web, phones' networks and sensors) just weren't available--would have been hard, before 1980, to imagine trivially having a metric of your connectedness to an acquaintance (like Facebook's 'mutual friends') or having ads matching your interest.

I'm gonna say that 25 years out the data, power, and algorithms will be available to everyone to make things that look like Strong AI to anyone today. Oh, and the video games will be friggin awesome. If we don't all blow each other up in the next couple-and-a-half decades, of course. Any other takers? Whoever predicts it best gets a beer (or soda) in 25 years, if practical.

Must've been a fun trip for a geek/nerd. I'm jealous!

Question, what do they do with the old CPUs that got replaced? Resale, recycled, donation?