MicroSoft betting the company on cloud computing

janh · 03-06-10, 03:11 PM

Consider the data volume to be calculated for each frame while running anything on your PC. Consider resolution, color depth and frame rate. How much data would you need per second? Is this "problem" of the category "memory/bandwith" or "CPU" (GPU) intensive? Where is the choke point?

I am presently running theoretical chemistry computations with about 1000 active CPUs (8 CPU per node, 16 GB per node) on a cluster. The main issue is the data volume created by this type of application, which requires very short connections with extreme bandwidth between the nodes to be efficient. No option for cloud computing, either.

So much about "cloud computing".

03-06-10, 03:11 PM	#1
janh Stinking drunk in Trinidad Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 349 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Consider the data volume to be calculated for each frame while running anything on your PC. Consider resolution, color depth and frame rate. How much data would you need per second? Is this "problem" of the category "memory/bandwith" or "CPU" (GPU) intensive? Where is the choke point? I am presently running theoretical chemistry computations with about 1000 active CPUs (8 CPU per node, 16 GB per node) on a cluster. The main issue is the data volume created by this type of application, which requires very short connections with extreme bandwidth between the nodes to be efficient. No option for cloud computing, either. So much about "cloud computing".