Graphics cards do supercomputers

I haven't heard of this statement, you must know that the floating point computing power of the Intel 80 core Polaris (Polaris) processor that is still in the YY stage is nothing more than that, but it is only in harmony with the HD 4850, and the gap between the CPU and the GPU in the floating point budget power can be seen.

Using GPU to make a supercomputer is actually no different from a CPU, but although the latest GPU supports general-purpose computing, because the original intention of GPU design is still in graphics processing, it requires good software support to do general-purpose computing, and to put it bluntly, it is necessary to have a good "translator", so that general-purpose programs can be recognized and run by GPU.

The temperature problem is a problem, because at present, the heat and power consumption of high-end graphics cards are far higher than those of high-end CPUs, but from another point of view, to achieve the same computing power, I am afraid that the power consumption and heat consumption of the sum of CPUs are much higher than that of GPUs, right? In this way, the energy consumption ratio of GPU for cloud computing is far better than that of CPU, and the investment in cloud computing is huge, and the investment in heat dissipation is nothing at all. The heat generation is not much worse than the water cooling on the entire computer room

I believe what you heard should be the continuation of the war of words between Intel and NVIDIA about who is more important CPU and GPU, in fact, cloud computing is still a very YY level thing, I don't think you have to care too much, with the current busy and congested Internet backbone, even if the cloud computing server is available, whether the backbone network can carry the huge business volume of cloud computing is a problem.

There are already supercomputers made of graphics cards, and one of them is reported at a university in Japan.

Temperature control of supercomputers is always a problem, no matter what is used as the basis for computing. Heat dissipation in CPU-based supercomputers is also an important issue.

Judging from the various supercomputers known, the CPUs of these supercomputers are nothing more than so many kinds of Intel, AMD, IBM, NEC....Judging from the current capabilities, the floating-point capability is much lower than that of the graphics card.

gpu cpu

It's all the same in theory.

They are all made up of transistors.

If you use a graphics card for computing, then the GPU becomes the CPU

These are all play on words, and it's not interesting.

The graphics card is an indispensable part of the computer, it is the main output device of the computer, and without the graphics card, the computer is like a blind man touching things in the air, and will not give him any feedback.

A computer is mainly composed of a motherboard, CPU, memory, monitor, graphics card, and input and output devices.

Some motherboards will have integrated graphics, while high-end motherboards will not have integrated graphics.

There is no need to install a graphics card on the motherboard with an integrated graphics card, and if you install a discrete graphics card, you must also set up a jumper to shield the motherboard's graphics card.

Discrete graphics cards don't need to be explained.

The computer with the graphics card installed must have the driver installed, otherwise it will be the same as without the graphics card. The point is that many graphics cards have drivers already packaged in the operating system and don't have to be installed by yourself, while some graphics cards don't. There will be a driver provided with the graphics card, if the normal installation of the graphics card does not work, you need to install the driver manually.

You can't do anything without a graphics card or with a graphics card without drivers installed. Not to mention that you're going to watch movies and play games.

lz wants to ask what the computer is stuck.

If you have a graphics card integrated into the motherboard, you can do without a graphics card. There is no black screen of the graphics card, and the driver performance is poor. Integrated graphics card will be stuck when watching movies and playing games. No driver to watch movies and play games more card.

Computers all have graphics cards, which are different from discrete graphics cards and integrated graphics cards. When you say no graphics card, you mean an integrated graphics card, and the driver you are talking about is a driver for a discrete graphics card. If the computer does not have a driver installed, it will not be able to enter the system normally.

If the computer itself has a discrete graphics card and there is no driver, you will find that it is a bit stuck (not smooth) when you move the window. If you don't have a discrete graphics card, you can still watch movies and play mini-games, but you will get stuck when you play big games.

The computer can not have a discrete graphics card, because there is an integrated graphics card on the motherboard or CPU, and the effect of no independent graphics card and no independent graphics card driver is the same, no independent graphics card can play games and watch movies, if there is a discrete graphics card, but the situation of not installing the driver is the same as not installing the discrete graphics card, do not activate its function, if there is no independent graphics card on the motherboard, and then the integrated graphics card is damaged, then it will be scrapped, unless the independent graphics card is inserted instead of the integrated graphics card function.