Canon EOS 5D
ƒ/8
400 mm
1/500
320
The mountain biking in Montebello was brisk this morning.
I found myself pondering last night’s party. A friend of mine, who evolves neuronal simulations, just put together a mind-bogglingly powerful computer (36 teraflops) with $80K of equipment from Fry’s.
Gordon Moore happened to be next to us with a gleam in his eye. I had to ask “who would have predicted that in 1965?” =)
The key to this system’s performance is the parallel power of graphics processors, which maps well to cortical simulation. For $499, a NVIDIA board sports 240 cores running at 1.5GHz.
Leave a Reply