In the Trenches at GTC: Scaling Applications to a Thousand GPUs and Beyond

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/trenches-gtc-scaling-applications-thousand-gpus-and-beyond/

By Adnan Boz (GTC 2012 Guest Blogger) Question: Why would you need 50 petaflops of horsepower and a 500,000 scalar processor capable supercomputer? Answer: You need to simulate dynamics of complex fluid systems! On Day 3 of GTC, HPC architect and Ogden prize winner Dr. Alan Gray from the University of Edinburgh described his use of C,…