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Oak Ridge cans Nvidia Based Fermi Supercomputer

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REMEMBER THE TRIUMPHANT WIN for Fermi at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that Nvidia heavily touted at its GTC conference keynote? The supercomputer project was just killed for power reasons. Fermi power reasons. Whoops.

That keynote 'win', shortly followed up by the showing of faked boards, was the highlight of an otherwise dull show, but it was used to show the potential of Fermi. Faked boards aside, putting GPUs into HPC clusters and supercomputers is what Nvidia has staked much of it's future on. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) win was a massive PR statement, even if it was unlikely to net Nvidia any money directly.

These 'wins' tend to be 'sold' at breakeven or a loss when all the numbers are added up, but they provide some very compelling selling points for smaller and more lucrative corporate clusters. It was a halo that would have been used to sell many more Fermi and Quadro boards over the next few years.

We said "would have been" because word has reached us that the win is now dead and gone. Stone cold dead. Actually, the blame is being put on Fermi and it's power use, so it might not be stone cold, maybe burnt to death by hot stones. In any case, Dear Leader is now zero for two in the 'wins' he touted at GDC. Fermi is massively delayed, underpowered, hot, and the stopgap GPUs are so good that Nvidia won't push them directly. Talk about opening a can of whoop-ass!

We plan on asking Nvidia for a comment about this, but it has recently decided not to respond to us any more, so don't hold your breath for an update. If it does come, it will be posted here.
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http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/16/oak-ridge-cans-nvidia-based-fermi-supercomputer/
 
Hmmm, I dont like to see Nvidia failing, especially with Intel out the picture again for the near future, but oh dear.

Perhaps Fermi is going to be Nvidia's 2900XT.
 
I wouldn't bother reading anything Charlie Demerjian says any more... despite having some credibility in the past he seems to be on some misguided personal crusade lately.
 
Rroff said:
I wouldn't bother reading anything Charlie Demerjian says any more... despite having some credibility in the past he seems to be on some misguided personal crusade lately.
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And whenever he talks about Vista he refers to it as the "Broken OS" which is extremely childish and troll-like.
 
Rroff said:
I wouldn't bother reading anything Charlie Demerjian says any more... despite having some credibility in the past he seems to be on some misguided personal crusade lately.
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Aye, it's annoying when people state things as fact but are unable for various reasons actually state their source.
 
Monkeynut said:
And whenever he talks about Vista he refers to it as the "Broken OS" which is extremely childish and troll-like.
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Broken might be stretching it a bit... but its deff. a long way from an ideal OS.

layte said:
Aye, it's annoying when people state things as fact but are unable for various reasons actually state their source.
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Theres a fine line between an informed opinion and stating something as fact thats easy to confuse - the more intelligent readers (probably wouldn't be reading his articles in the first place lately) will know the difference and not be annoyed about it... instead they'll realise that unsubstantiated statements have a habit of turning out like this article... making the author look like a prat...
 
hyperst said:
i allways liked vista, wasnt slow on my machine, i find windows 7 slower
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Totally agree! vista is just as fast! I dont know how/why people had so many problems with vista, I have had it since launch and its been fast without any problems, ever! Windows 7 is great but for me there is no difference what so ever in any thing!
 
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