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MIT Artificial Vision Researchers Assemble 16-GPU Machine

Posted by timothy on from the many-many-little-dots dept.

lindik writes "As part of their research efforts aimed at building real-time human-level artificial vision systems inspired by the brain, MIT graduate student Nicolas Pinto and principal investigators David Cox (Rowland Institute at Harvard) and James DiCarlo (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) recently assembled an impressive 16-GPU 'monster' composed of 8x9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA. The high-throughput method they promote can also use other ubiquitous technologies like IBM's Cell Broadband Engine processor (included in Sony's Playstation 3) or Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing services. Interestingly, the team is also involved in the PetaVision project on the Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer."

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  1. machine or machines? by MoFoQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is it me or do I see two separate mobos...which means it's two machines, 8 per machine in one box....not 16?

    now...if it was 16 in one...now that would be amazing....otherwise...it's not...'cuz there was that other group that did 8 in 1 (aka...16/2 => 8/1)