Nvidia Quadro/Tesla

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hello everyone,

i have always wondered what these different cards are used for?
i know that all the geforce stuff is for high performance graphics, but the Quadro and tesla cards i just dont know anything about.

could someone pleaser enlighten me?

cheers

tom
 
Quadro is for graphic/cad designers.

Tesla is for sticking in servers and doing large computational work on, i.e you stick a few into a workstation and it pushes out more Gflops than some of the fastest super-computers in the world.

this for example - http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2009/10/06/kraken-supercomputer-first-to-break-petascale/

I seem to remember from a Nvidia conference streamed on the net, could be matched by eight GTX480 based tesla cards.


EDIT, found what I was looking for - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18188718 - look at post #26 downwards.
 
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stulid said:
Quadro is for graphic/cad designers.

Tesla is for sticking in servers and doing large computational work on, i.e you stick a few into a workstation and it pushes out more Gflops than some of the fastest super-computers in the world.

this for example - http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2009/10/06/kraken-supercomputer-first-to-break-petascale/

I seem to remember from a Nvidia conference streamed on the net, could be matched by eight GTX480 based tesla cards.


EDIT, found what I was looking for - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18188718 - look at post #26 downwards.
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this is highly interesting, but what i dont understand is why if all the power of the kraken can be in such a small package, why dont they still built stuff on that scale?
 
panyan said:
this is highly interesting, but what i dont understand is why if all the power of the kraken can be in such a small package, why dont they still built stuff on that scale?
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It's a (for want of a better way of putting it) different type of power.

For instance, a GPU cannot run x86 code, so would be useless for replacing a CPU. Not a great example, but I'm not that clued up on supercomputing.

Basically, it's all to do with the task and what is the most efficient way of solving that task. GPUs are better suited than CPUs to certain tasks, and vice versa. In very specific tasks Kraken could be beaten by something much smaller, but Kraken was probably not designed for that application.
 
Marvin said:
It's a (for want of a better way of putting it) different type of power.

For instance, a GPU cannot run x86 code, so would be useless for replacing a CPU. Not a great example, but I'm not that clued up on supercomputing.

Basically, it's all to do with the task and what is the most efficient way of solving that task. GPUs are better suited than CPUs to certain tasks, and vice versa. In very specific tasks Kraken could be beaten by something much smaller, but Kraken was probably not designed for that application.
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ah, i see, so kraken might be optimised for dealing with huge data sets, but couldnt play crysis at 20fps? :p
 
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