The Commodity Hybrid/Many-Core Compute Platform
by Michael Hay on January 22, 2010
Drum roll please!!!! And voila the system is based on the Tesla platform from NVidia. There is a pretty cool video on YouTube (at the end of the post) which talks about what the system is and what kinds of applications can be moved to that platform. Also there is a particularly good paper here that talks about NVida’s programming platform for Tesla called CUDA (Complete Unified Device Architecture). While it is obvious that various scientific applications can be accelerated on Tesla, what is interesting about the paper is that there are hints of something like a virus scanner being accelerated on the platform as well. This got me to wondering what other kinds applications beyond games and science would be good on this platform? Any ideas or hints from the HDS blog community?
