Supercomputer Question

[cfair766]

Say i just won the power ball billion dollar lottery:

If i rented out a warehouse and set up a top 500 supercomputer with mostly gpu setup would it be benefitical to play games on or would it be too much power and games would not be able to handle the full power

[DominicNikon]

i think too much power

[werto165]

They don't have drivers for games AFAIK, probably just do double precision shizz. 

[themctipers]

no motherboard can handle that much GPU in Sli .3.

[Curufinwe_wins]

No, no and no.

 

Nothing in a supercomputer cluster is designed for something as non-parallel as modern gaming.

 

Plus these things are parceled out months if not years in advance.

[Ravener]

Supercomputers don't run windows/linux/or macOS. Sorry, games literally won't run. 

[Enderman]

games do not work on supercomputers

supercomputers do calculations, they do not run a regular operating system and only work with specialized programs coded for them

 

so unless you think 0fps is "too much power" then no

[MatrixGrenade]

there would definetly be to much power and setups like that are more geared torwards complex tasks like for boinc and protein folding.

[That_Random_Guy]

i dont think super computers can play games... they arnt designed to

[MatrixGrenade]

Supercomputers don't run windows/linux/or macOS. Sorry, games literally won't run

actually most supercomputers run on linux based platforms. so some games could run.

[The_Stig]

Short Answer: No

Long Answer: Think of the micro-stuttering, Linus said that 4-way Titan-X SLI was unplayable with the micro-stuttering, think of what it would be like to have more. Also, Supercomputers dont work like normal computers

[Ravener]

actually most supercomputers run on linux based platforms. so some games could run.

Oh srry mb, last time I checked (A while back) Supercomputers ran custom OS's based on their task. Just read up a little on it, mb you're right. 

[MatrixGrenade]

Oh srry mb, last time I checked (A while back) Supercomputers ran custom OS's based on their task. Just read up a little on it, mb you're right.

The titan supercomputer runs on a not so modded version of linux actually.

[KemoKa]

The one purpose that supercomputers have is crunching numbers. That's it. Straight up mathematics for whatever purpose straight mathematics could ever be used for, and that is all. They're not built to run Crysis at 128K at 1337fps, nor is the software coded to even do anything remotely like that.

[dragoon20005]

you guys forget about this

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-benefits.html

 

[afyeung]

High end GPU accelerators like the Tesla K80 don't even have display outputs lol. My school has a cluster of GPU and CPU nodes for the parallel computing class. The GPU nodes has 5 Tesla K80s which should be around 3-4 Titan X's in real world performance. But you definitely can't play games. That's not what super computers are for. The absolute best gaming setup would be 2 Titan X's and a 5960x all overclocked balls to the wall under sub zero cooling.

[Ravener]

you guys forget about this

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-benefits.html

 

This is actually super different from a supercomputer. This is cloud gaming, this machine is built to be accessible by many different gamers at the same time over the cloud. Its really not a supercomputer. Its just a bunch of different rendering machines hooked up to each other for efficiency. 

[Ravener]

High end GPU accelerators like the Tesla K80 don't even have display outputs lol. My school has a cluster of GPU and CPU nodes for the parallel computing class. The GPU nodes has 5 Tesla K80s which should be around 3-4 Titan X's in real world performance. But you definitely can't play games. That's not what super computers are for. The absolute best gaming setup would be 2 Titan X's and a 5960x all overclocked balls to the wall under sub zero cooling.

Realistically, the best refresh rate you're getting out of your monitor is around 160hz. So the thing you're trying to do most with that setup is really just physics. Which in that case you can get a physics card + 2 980 Ti's and it might even be better than Titan X's cause those aren't really meant for gaming either lol. 

[dragoon20005]

This is actually super different from a supercomputer. This is cloud gaming, this machine is built to be accessible by many different gamers at the same time over the cloud. Its really not a supercomputer. Its just a bunch of different rendering machines hooked up to each other for efficiency. 

well i look at the OP post and that is how i understand his question

 

but his idea is similar to what Nvidia is doing with GRID

 

link up all the GPU in one super computer for gaming

 

and yes I do know how supercomputer works

 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/209704-chinas-tianhe-2-still-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-the-world-but-the-us-is-catching-up

 

it amazing feat the Chinese have the fastest supercomputer title for years

[Ravener]

Actually 98 percent of the world's most powerful supercomputers use linux

My bad, pls read up my followup comment.

[afyeung]

Realistically, the best refresh rate you're getting out of your monitor is around 160hz. So the thing you're trying to do most with that setup is really just physics. Which in that case you can get a physics card + 2 980 Ti's and it might even be better than Titan X's cause those aren't really meant for gaming either lol. 

physX cards don't exist anymore. but you can have a dedicated GPU for PhysX. Titan X's are for gaming, they were marketed as a gaming card. 2 Titan X's overclocked(Maybe around 1700mhz with subzero), is probably the best combo for high end gaming. Believe it or not.you can max out the 6gb frame buffer on the 980ti in some games.

[Ravener]

physX cards don't exist anymore. but you can have a dedicated GPU for PhysX. Titan X's are for gaming, they were marketed as a gaming card. 2 Titan X's overclocked(Maybe around 1700mhz with subzero), is probably the best combo for high end gaming. Believe it or not.you can max out the 6gb frame buffer on the 980ti in some games.

Sorry, the dedicated GPU for PhysX is what I meant. Did not know that the Titan X's were marketed as a gaming card, actually I'll ask a few questions then. Do you know any practical use case scenarios where two Titan X's in SLi will definitely outperform dual 980ti's in a meaningful way in gaming. I know a couple people who use titan X's in video editing pc's and such. But Titan X's for gaming is simply unheard of for me, even with techie friends who have wayy too much money to throw around and opt for the highest performance, they usually still opt for 980ti's just cause the extra performance from the Titan X's simply doesn't matter in terms of even the refresh rates of monitors.

[cleb]

I have a question too. I know you can't use them as desktops, but what if theoretically someone developed a form of linux that worked like a desktop on top of supercomputers, would it then theoretically be able to use desktop applications (even if these version had specifically written for it). I'm not saying I plan on writing a linux desktop for supercomputers, I'm asking if it's possible, and just not done for the obvious reason that it'd be pointless.

 

Edit: I say linux because it is to my understanding that there are super computers that use custom linux's for there "os"

[afyeung]

Sorry, the dedicated GPU for PhysX is what I meant. Did not know that the Titan X's were marketed as a gaming card, actually I'll ask a few questions then. Do you know any practical use case scenarios where two Titan X's in SLi will definitely outperform dual 980ti's in a meaningful way in gaming. I know a couple people who use titan X's in video editing pc's and such. But Titan X's for gaming is simply unheard of for me, even with techie friends who have wayy too much money to throw around and opt for the highest performance, they usually still opt for 980ti's just cause the extra performance from the Titan X's simply doesn't matter in terms of even the refresh rates of monitors.

It's not just about refresh rate. It's also about resolution. At 4k with newer games like GTA 5, you can use over the 6gb vram limit of the 980Ti's which is the benefit of the Titan X's 12gb vram. Also, the 980Ti is still a cutdown Titan X also in terms of cuda cores. If they are clocked the same, the Titan X will win every time. We weren't talking about stuff that the average person would buy since the OP posted about super computers. 2 Titan X's is simply the best GPU setup for gaming money can buy.

[Ravener]

It's not just about refresh rate. It's also about resolution. At 4k with newer games like GTA 5, you can use over the 6gb vram limit of the 980Ti's which is the benefit of the Titan X's 12gb vram. Also, the 980Ti is still a cutdown Titan X also in terms of cuda cores. If they are clocked the same, the Titan X will win every time. We weren't talking about stuff that the average person would buy since the OP posted about super computers. 2 Titan X's is simply the best GPU setup for gaming money can buy.

hmh, i see what you mean. My argument was 250fps>/>200fps, But I guess in a 4k or higher resolution scenario, you can top out the vram. kk thx