Nvidia announced two Tesla K-series cards aimed for the compute market at their annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) yesterday. The first Kepler based Tesla K10 is basically a GTX 690 with a $2500+ pricetag. Compared to its dual-GTX (GK104) sibbling K10 comes with lower clocks, but packs 8 GB of VRAM to better suite the compute market. Expect K10 to be available in a month or so.
The second one – the K20 is… wait a minute – It’s the Big-Kepler!! By the end of this year nVidia aims to release the Tesla K20, based on the GK110 with 7.1 billion transistors. Whether there will be an GTX version or not, the 2013 will tell. C#Ɔ
All the charasteristics on the K20 has not been published, but here are some:
Counting Cores F@h-Team today reached a new milestone by having contributed over 3600 workunits to date, for a total worth of 8 Million points. Earlier this week CCs joined the Top-1000 and is now ranked 995 in the World. Download the new Folding@home Client today and join our team by entering the number 214369 as Team ID. It’s now easier than ever. Welcome! C#Ɔ
Revision 0.6.1 of the popular video card monitoring utility GPU-Z was released yesterday, but was later patched to 0.6.2 due to a nVidia issue. This version adds support for two yet to be launched Kepler, the GeForce GTX 690 and GTX 670. Added is also a worldwide giveaway from PowerColor where you have the chance to win some stellar AMD Radeon graphics cards. C#Ɔ
Direct download: TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.6.2 or:
The Counting Cores’ Folding@home Team now ranks 1,000th in the World.
You’re welcome to start folding with us whenever you want. Just download the Folding@home Client install it and remember to enter our Team Id 214369. C#Ɔ
Counting Cores homepage has now been visited over 10 000 times. Although, very grateful for these numbers, I want to point out that as long as I’m in charge www.countingcores.com will be an 100% non-advertising website. I have never intended to make any money out of this. Whether it is the right decision or not, I want to keep it that way. Thank you everyone! C#Ɔ
AMD today released their montly driver package. Catalyst 12.4 stands for year 2012 and the 4th month which is April, no surprises there. The driver is approved by Microsoft WHQL, Windows Hardware Quality Labs testing. The driver suite comes with some significant improvements to the Anti-Aliasing, Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) for instance now operates 80% faster than previous versions. Well that might be worth a try, doesn’t it? C#Ɔ
The Catalyst Software Suite 12.4 contains the following: (Release notes)
- Display Driver 8.961
- OpenCL Driver
- AMD Integrated Driver
- Catalyst Control Center 8.961
Intel today released its range of Ivy Bridge processors. Manufactured on the new 22nm process we surely had hoped for more. Ivy Bridge has about 5% better IPC than Sandy Bridge, but as the predecessor clocks around 200 MHz higher it closes that gap succesfully. An 35% increase in integrated GPU performance doesn’t impress us folders that much. We are looking forward to an 8-core Ivy Bridge-E processor w/o integrated graphics instead.
Here is an comparison table for the unlocked K-models anyway:
Our recommendations to…
- Folders and Sandy Bridge owners: Do not bother to upgrade yet!
- To anyone else: You can’t go wrong with an Ivy Bridge CPU as long as it is one of the K-models.
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Contributors to the World Community Grid are rewarded with digital badges that they can use on forums. A badge is awarded to members based on the computer processing time they have donated to a project. Each project has its own badge symbol and all the 6 levels of the badges has its own color. Below you will find a summary of the badges for all current projects. Counting Cores contributes to the WCG-project, the BOINC Team ID is 28925. You are welcome to crunch with us! C#Ɔ
Badge Levels
█ Bronze – 14 days
█ Silver – 45 days
█ Gold – 90 days
█ Ruby – 180 days
█ Emerald – 1 year
█ Sapphire – 2 years
