[ntp:hackers] nVidia CUDA GPU - wow - NTP never had it this good before.

tglassey tglassey at glassey.com
Sun Jan 24 20:46:50 UTC 2010


On 1/23/2010 11:05 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
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>> So folks - I have a functional CUDA based NTP server and it's
>> performance is incredible.
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Sorry forgot to add this for the TELOS board link - check this baby out 
1.3G 240Core board as a compute co-processor. And less than $1200 too. 
Drop three or four of these into a DB Server and you got rock and roll...

Todd

http://fxvideocards.com/PNY-NVIDIA-Tesla-C1060-Compute-Board-p-16426.html
> Thanks.
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> That sounds like a neat hack, but could you please say a bit more...
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> How are you measuring performance?  Packets per second?  Cycles per packet?
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> Most GPU cards don't have network hardware.  How are the packets getting
> to/from the internet and your code running on the GPU?
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> ntpd, or at least the reference implementation, is single threaded.  What are
> you doing with the other 99 cores on the GPU?
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